Browsing Scientific Production by Subject "Myofascial pain syndrome"
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Association of anxiety with intracortical inhibition and descending pain modulation in chronic myofascial pain syndrome
(2014) [Journal article]Background: This study aimed to answer three questions related to chronic myofascial pain syndrome (MPS): 1) Is the motor cortex excitability, as assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation parameters (TMS), related to ... -
Corticospinal excitability as a biomarker of myofascial pain syndrome
(2017) [Journal article]Introduction: Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a common chronic pain disorder that lacks effective diagnostic criteria. To better understand neurophysiological changes in chronic pain, several trials exploring corticospinal ... -
Motor cortex excitability and BDNF levels in chronic musculoskeletal pain according to structural pathology
(2016) [Journal article]The central sensitization syndrome (CSS) encompasses disorders with overlapping symptoms in a structural pathology spectrum ranging from persistent nociception [e.g., osteoarthritis (OA)] to an absence of tissue injuries ... -
The use of dry needling in the treatment of cervical and masticatory myofascial pain
(2017) [Journal article]BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Dry needling is an interventionist, minimally invasive technique, used in the treatment of myofascial pain. The objective of this study was to describe the use of dry needling and to perform a ...