Muscle trigger points and pressure pain hyperalgesia in the shoulder muscles in patients with unilateral shoulder impingement: A blinded, controlled study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 915-925

  Hidalgo Lozano, Amparo ^a   Fernández De Las Peñas, César ^b,c   Alonso Blanco, Cristina ^b   Ge, Hong You ^c   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^c   Arroyo Morales, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Pressure pain; Sensitization; Shoulder impingement; Trigger points

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REFERRED PAIN; SCAPULA; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRIGGER POINT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; SHOULDER; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952291511     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2196-4     Document Type: Article

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