Novel Applications of Ultrasound Technology to Visualize and Characterize Myofascial Trigger Points and Surrounding Soft Tissue

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1829-1838

  Sikdar, Siddhartha ^a   Shah, Jay P ^c   Gebreab, Tadesse ^c   Yen, Ru Huey ^c   Gilliams, Elizabeth ^c   Danoff, Jerome ^c   Gerber, Lynn H ^b,c  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Myofascial pain syndromes; Rehabilitation; Sonoelastography; Trigger points, myofascial; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VIBRATION;

EID: 70449331680     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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