Myofascial pain and treatment: Editorial a critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature – August 2019. Issue 4 (October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dommerholt, Jan; Chou, Li-Wei; Hooks, Todd; Thorp, Jacob N.
• Is Part Of: Journal of bodywork and movement therapies. Volume 23:Issue 4(2019:Oct.)
• Page Start: 773
• Page End: 784
• Publication Date: 2019-10
• Subjects: Myofascial pain syndrome -- Trigger points -- Dry needling -- Manual therapy; Massage -- Periodicals; Exercise therapy -- Periodicals; Manipulation (Therapeutics) -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 615.82
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2019.10.001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1360-8592

Abstract

Abstract: This quarter's overview of the myofascial pain literature includes quite a few basic research papers in addition to the usual high quantity of dry needling (DN) papers. Of particular interest are a study by Fischer and colleagues studying the role of mitochondrial functions in chronic trigger points (TrPs) (Fischer et al 2018 ), a study by Li and associates who conducted a quantitative proteomics analysis to identify biomarkers of chronic myofascial pain and therapeutic targets of dry needling in a rat model of TrPs (Li et al 2019 ), and a sonography study by Mitchell et al. looking into the distances from the skin to the pleura in the context of DN (Mitchell et al 2019 ). A total of 33 papers are included in this overview article. We welcome Dr. Jacob Thorp to our team of authors. Dr. Thorp is a US-based physical therapist. He is Professor and Founding Director of the Physical Therapy Program at Charleston Southern University in North Charleston, SC.