Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5877903 | The Journal of Pain | 2010 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The current study showed the existence of multiple active muscle TrPs in the masticatory and neck-shoulder muscles in women with myofascial TMD pain. The local and referred pain elicited from active TrPs reproduced pain complaints in these patients. Further, referred pain areas were larger in TMD pain patients than in healthy controls. The results are also in accordance with the notion of peripheral and central sensitization mechanisms in patients with myofascial TMD.
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Authors
César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Fernando Galán-del-RÃo, Cristina Alonso-Blanco, Rodrigo Jiménez-GarcÃa, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Peter Svensson,