Myofascial trigger points：the common cause of clinical tissue pain
10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.46.028
- VernacularTitle:肌筋膜疼痛触发点
- Author:
Lin LIU
;
Qiangmin HUANG
;
Li TANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
pain;
fascitis;
myofascial pain syndromes
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2014;(46):7520-7527
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Myofascial trigger points have been widely applied in clinical rehabilitation and tissue pain field in the United States and Europe countries, and they have been recognized as the common cause of clinical musculoskeletal pain, joint function limitation, tissue injuries and muscle fatigue by many physiotherapists abroad. However, in China, many experts stil have some mistaken ideas and limitations to understand the pathological mechanism and to diagnosis and treat myofascial trigger points. OBJECTIVE:From the aspects of the etiology, pathological mechanism, diagnosis and positioning, treatments, to elaborate the method issues and the clinical experience of treatments of myofascial trigger points. METHODS:PubMed, ScienceDirect, EBSCO and CNKI databases were searched by the keywords of “myofascial trigger points, myofascial pain syndrome” in Chinese and English, respectively, in the titles and abstract to retrieve relevant articles published from the time of database construction to August 2014. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:It is concluded that a child has myofascial trigger points in some skeletal muscles after age of 4 years. The main causes of myofascial trigger points include issue trauma, the wrong posture, bone and joint degeneration, nutrition deficiency, mental stress, chronic infection and so on. The pathological mechanism of myofascial trigger points remains unknown, but what has been widely accepted is the integrated trigger point hypothesis introduced by Simons. And how to find and position myofascial trigger points is the key point to treat this disease successfuly. The application of myofascial trigger points techniques is important for the rehabilitation of clinical tissue pain and the occurrence and spread of bone and joint injuries, myofascitis, muscle pain, muscle fatigue and so on.
