Tender points are not sites of ongoing inflammation - In vivo evidence in patients with chronic tension-type headache

Cephalalgia

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-116

  Ashina, Messoud ^a   Stallknecht, B ^a   Bendtsen, L ^a   Pedersen, J F ^a   Schifter, S ^a   Galbo, H ^a   Olesen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exercise; Inflammatory mediators; Muscle tenderness; Tender points; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRADYKININ; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PYRUVIC ACID; UREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIALYSATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MYALGIA; STATIC EXERCISE; TENSION HEADACHE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSITIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALPATION; PRESSURE; SHOULDER; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 0037343535     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2003.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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