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Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment

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Editors:
  1. Siegfried Mense

    1. Centrum für Biomedizin und, Medizintechnik Mannheim (CBTM), Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

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  2. Robert D. Gerwin

    1. Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Bethesda, USA

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  • The companion volume to Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms, this text shifts the emphasis from concepts to practical advice.

  • It facilitates the diagnosis and management of the often enigmatic symptoms of chronic muscle pain.

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Myofascial Pain Syndrome

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 14-14
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  3. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Siegfried Mense, Robert D. Gerwin
      Pages 1-11

  4. Myofascial Pain Syndrome

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 14-14
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    2. Myofascial Pain Syndrome

      • Robert D. Gerwin
      Pages 15-83

    3. Morphology of Myofascial Trigger Points: What Does a Trigger Point Look Like?

      • Siegfried Mense
      Pages 85-102

  5. Fibromyalgia Syndrome

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 104-104
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    2. Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Clinical Aspects and Management

      • Emma Guymer, Geoffrey O. Littlejohn
      Pages 105-141

    3. Gender, Genetics, and Other Risk Factors Increasing Vulnerability to Fibromyalgia

      • Geoffrey O. Littlejohn
      Pages 143-157

  6. Other Muscle Pain Syndromes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 160-160
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    2. Low Back Pain of Muscular Origin

      • Robert D. Gerwin
      Pages 161-192

    3. Masticatory Muscle Pain

      • Sandro Palla, Mauro Farella
      Pages 193-227

    4. Inflammatory Myopathies

      • Ingrid E. Lundberg, Li Alemo Munters
      Pages 229-246

    5. Whiplash Injury, Muscle Pain and Motor Dysfunction

      • Jan Dommerholt
      Pages 247-288

    6. Brain Imaging of Muscle Pain

      • Sandra Kamping, Herta Flor
      Pages 289-309

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 311-365
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This edition of the companion volumes Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mech- isms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment is essential reading for those interested in clinical approaches to acute and chronic pain conditions involving muscle tissues and in the mechanisms underlying these conditions. The volumes cover a very important topic in pain medicine, since muscle pain is very common and can often be dif?cult to diagnose and treat effectively. Furthermore, chronic pain involving muscle and other components of the musculoskeletal system increases with age, such that it is a common complaint of those of us who are middle-aged or older. Indeed, as changing population demographics in “west- nized” countries result in higher proportions of the population living longer and being middle-aged and elderly, chronic muscle pain will likely become even more of a health problem. In the case of acute muscle pain, this can often be very intense, and in the short term can limit or modify the use of components of the musculoskeletal system associated with the sensitive muscle. Chronic muscle pain can also be intense, as well as unpleasant and disabling, and it is in many cases the over-riding symptom of most musculoskeletal disorders that are associated with long-term deleterious changes in musculoskeletal function.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centrum für Biomedizin und, Medizintechnik Mannheim (CBTM), Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

    Siegfried Mense

  • Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Bethesda, USA

    Robert D. Gerwin

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