Regional soft tissue pains: Alias myofascial pain?

Bailliere's Best Practice and Research in Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 345-369

  Tunks, Eldon ^a   Crook, Joan ^b  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Epidemiology; Myofascial pain syndromes; Reliability; Trigger points

Indexed keywords

BONE PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MYALGIA; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032837783     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/berh.1999.0024     Document Type: Article

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