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Muscle Pain and Myofascial Pain

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A common muscular disorder caused by multiple myofascial trigger points (MTrPs).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Multidisciplinary Pain Program, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Avenue, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Naum Shaparin MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center—Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1075 Columbus Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035, USA

    Diana M. Nguyen MSIII

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10128, USA

    Karina Gritsenko MD

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Correspondence to Karina Gritsenko MD .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Shaparin, N., Nguyen, D.M., Gritsenko, K. (2017). Muscle Pain and Myofascial Pain. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_124

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