title: Myofascial trigger points: a need for understanding.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D005205:Fascia; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles; D059408:Pain Management; D013577:Syndrome