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Myofascial trigger points: a need for understanding.

D G Simons
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The muscle pain syndromes caused by myofascial trigger points are beset with a cloud of confusing terminology and confusing concepts. This paper introduces the presentations made at a symposium entitled "Myofascial Trigger Points: Multidisciplinary Facets," at the 55th Annual Session of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine in New Orleans on November 17, 1978. Following a summary of discussions at the end of the symposium, the "Commentary" proposes a set of neurophysiologic mechanisms that may account for most of the clinical phenomena associated with myofascial trigger points.

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D G Simons. 1981. Myofascial trigger points: a need for understanding.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7235902/

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