Latent myofascial trigger points are associated with an increased antagonistic muscle activity during agonist muscle contraction

Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1282-1288

  Ibarra, José Miota ^a,b   Ge, Hong You ^a   Wang, Chao ^a,c   Martínez Vizcaíno, Vicente ^b   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

intramuscular electromyography; Isometric contraction; muscle relaxation; myofascial trigger points; reciprocal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINT; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; REFERRED PAIN; REST; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, REFERRED; PALPATION; REST; SHOULDER; TRIGGER POINTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82755187487     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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