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Myofascial Pain Syndrome

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There seem to have been a lot of questions about this recently so here is a pretty good summary article about it:

medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

This is a previous article I posted about the trigger points:

medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

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Adding to FAQ’s 😉

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Unfortunately, l have discovered that l am unable to edit FAQ’s any further - there is a maximum of 7,000 characters.

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Hmmmm

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Perhaps in can be Pinned for now? Needs to be readily available as it comes up a lot as PMRpro says

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Now I have it under my name it will be fairly easy for me to find and link to a new question.

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Great article! Thanks so much. Xxx

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Interesting article. Thanks. Are you completely over Covid (I hope)?

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Me? I haven't had Covid - don't want it either! Life here is fairly much back to normal - but like everywhere else the numbers are rising again, enough to bring back talk of masks being compulsory again. I have no doubt everyone on their jolly holibobs are getting far too up close and personal and careless ...

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Looking back to when I presented with bilateral shoulder pain, the doc first tried a muscle relaxant pill, but only steroids sorted it. Sounds like it can be difficult to come to the correct diagnosis. Do the inflammation markers rise with myofascial pain syndrome?

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Less so I think - because the inflammatory substances are localised in the muscle fascia and the trigger points rather than being systemic (in the bloodstream) which reaches the liver to trigger the proteins that rise in the acute phase response and gives higher ESR which is partly due to raised CRP.

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PMRpro you can add this link to your previous post

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Then it’ll be in FAQ’s

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Done! I had a brief thought earlier they were the same article!!!! They aren't ...

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