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• People with tension-type headache often use spinal manipulation, soft tissue therapy, and myofascial trigger point treatment.
• This modality is used for imaging of the prostate, breast, vagina and pelvic floor support structures, and myofascial trigger points in muscle.
• The MTPTI can be used by a chiropractic or massage therapy practitioner to map the tissue elasticity of the myofascial trigger points ( Figure 6B ).
• Pain is also common after a massage if the practitioner uses pressure on unnoticed latent or active trigger points, or is not skilled in myofascial trigger point therapy.
• With this technique, they have been able to investigate the biochemistry of muscle in subjects with myofascial trigger points and to contrast this with that of the noninvolved muscle.
• For example, in a systematic review on needling therapies in the management of myofascial trigger points, only 8 of the 23 trials described the minimally acceptable criteria for diagnosing a trigger point.
• Proper dry needling of a myofascial trigger point will elicit a local twitch response ( LTR ), which is an involuntary spinal cord reflex in which the muscle fibers in the taut band of muscle contract.
• Narrowing of the fissure can be a prominent indicator of myofascial trigger points in the ipsilateral sternocleidomastoid muscle's sternal division, a common cause of tension headaches, particularly those felt around the eyes and sinuses.
• The Myofascial Trigger Point Tactile Imager ( MTPTI ) as shown in Figure 6A is a tactile imaging device that provides a 2-D tactile visualization and assessment of the elastic properties of the myofascial trigger points by using a tactile imaging probe.
• The Myofascial Trigger Point Tactile Imager ( MTPTI ) as shown in Figure 6A is a tactile imaging device that provides a 2-D tactile visualization and assessment of the elastic properties of the myofascial trigger points by using a tactile imaging probe.
• The term myotherapy was originally coined by Bonnie Prudden to describe a specific type of trigger point therapy which she developed in the 1970s based on the earlier work of Travell and Simons who researched the cause and treatment of pain arising from myofascial trigger points.
• A majority of patients in specialty pain management centers and those with chronic pain disorders suffer from a poorly understood condition called myofascial pain syndrome, which is characterized by pain associated with localized tender nodules in taut bands of skeletal muscle called myofascial trigger points.
• Characteristic features of a myofascial trigger points include : focal point tenderness, reproduction of pain upon trigger point palpation, hardening of the muscle upon trigger point palpation, pseudo-weakness of the involved muscle, referred pain, and limited range of motion following approximately 5 seconds of sustained trigger point pressure.
• In the same review, two studies tested the efficacy beyond placebo of dry needling in the treatment of myofascial trigger point pain, but, in one, the dropout rate was 48 % and it was neither blinded nor randomized, and the other study used potentially active interventions in the control group.
• Many of the studies published about dry needling do not have strong evidence; either the studies were not randomized, contained small sample sizes, had high dropout rates, used active interventions in the control group, did not follow the minimally acceptable criteria to diagnose a myofascial trigger point, or did not clearly state that myofascial trigger points were the sole cause for the pain.
• Many of the studies published about dry needling do not have strong evidence; either the studies were not randomized, contained small sample sizes, had high dropout rates, used active interventions in the control group, did not follow the minimally acceptable criteria to diagnose a myofascial trigger point, or did not clearly state that myofascial trigger points were the sole cause for the pain.
• Myofascial pain and myofascial trigger points are considered very difficult to treat with manual and medical therapies but FSM appeared to treat the trigger points easily and successfully . " Microcurrent treatment of myofascial pain in the head neck and face " was published in Topics in Clinical Chiropractic Vol 5 ( 1 ) 1998 . and " Microcurrent therapy : a novel treatment for chronic low back myofascial pain . " was published in Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies ( 2004 ) 8.