Post-traumatic myofascial pain of the head and neck.
Post-traumatic myofascial pain describes the majority of chronic head and neck pain seen in clinical practice. If conditions such as vascular headaches, neuropathic pain, degenerative cervical joint disease, and dental pain are excluded, myofascial tissues are directly or indirectly involved in all other forms of head and neck pain. The most common of these include temporomandibular disorders, neck pain such as whiplash-associated disorder, cervicogenic headaches, and tension-type headaches. The pathophysiology of these conditions is not widely understood; however, peripheral and central mechanisms appear to play a role.
University of Toronto and the Crown Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, 944 Merritton Road, Pickering, Ontario L1V 1B1, Canada. brian.freund@utoronto.ca
Brian
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Freund
Marvin
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Schwartz
D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D009209:Myofascial Pain Syndromes / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology