Clinical relevance of fascial tissue and dysfunctions

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Klingler, W ^a,b   Velders, M ^a   Hoppe, K ^a,c   Pedro, M ^b   Schleip, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Department of Neurosurgery Neurosurgical University Hospital   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dysfunction; Fascia; Lumbar fascia; Myofascial pain

Indexed keywords

TANEZUMAB;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FASCIA; FASCIA DISEASE; FASCIITIS; FIBROSIS; FROZEN SHOULDER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; MYOFIBROBLAST; NECK PAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RIGIDITY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; TENNIS ELBOW; VISCOELASTICITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BURSITIS; COMPLICATION; FACIAL PAIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BURSITIS; FACIAL PAIN; FASCIA; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK PAIN; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES;

EID: 84902936574     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0439-y     Document Type: Article

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