Trigger point injections can help treat some forms of chronic muscle pain. After your injections, you may experience some mild tenderness or soreness, but you can go back to your normal activities ...

Fibromyalgia is a non-life-threatening, chronic disorder with widespread pain as its main symptom. This musculoskeletal condition affects your whole body. When you have fibromyalgia, your brain may ...

People with fibromyalgia often feel different types of pain in their bodies. Along with widespread, deep muscle pain, it’s common to feel multiple tender points, too. Tender points are areas of pain ...

Myofascial tissue is a connective tissue which surrounds muscle sheaths, ligaments, joint capsules, nerve sheaths and other tissues. It acts like a tent, covering and protecting body parts. In the ...

Trigger point release may be done with the practitioner’s hands, as a type of massage treatment, or by using small needles, known as dry needling. It can help relieve pain and other symptoms. Trigger ...

Fibromyalgia is one of the most common chronic pain conditions, which affects approximately 4 million individuals in the United States, and around 0.2-6.6% of the world’s population. It is more ...

Both myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia cause muscular pain. However, myofascial pain syndrome causes pain in certain areas, compared with fibromyalgia, which causes pain throughout the body.

New research indicates that a disruption of brain signals for reward and punishment contributes to increased pain sensitivity, known as hyperalgesia, in fibromyalgia patients. Results suggest that ...