Ultrasound-guided spinal accessory nerve blockade in the diagnosis and management of trapezius muscle-related myofascial pain

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 386-389

  Townsley, P ^a   Ravenscroft, A ^a   Bedforth, N ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ABDUCTION; ACCESSORY NERVE; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FALLING; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEURALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINEURIUM; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REFERRED PAIN; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SHOULDER DISEASE; SPINAL NERVE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SUPRASCAPULAR NERVE BLOCK; THERAPY RESISTANCE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ACCESSORY NERVE; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79954595332     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06691.x     Document Type: Article

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