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Muscle pain: understanding its nature, diagnosis and treatment

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a page in a book
authors
Siegfried Mense, David G Simons, and IJ Russell
publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
year
2000
page
p. 267 (1st hardcover edition)
 
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Two experimental studies [see Danneskiold-Samsoe] showed that vigorous massage ... did disrupt muscle fibers sufficiently to release intracellular myoglobin. Comparable massage of normal muscle caused no such elevation of serum myoglobin. As the tenderness and tension of the “nodule” subsided with repeated treatments, the post-treatement increase of serum myoglobin became successively less and finally failed to appear when symptoms had abated. This finding strongly supports the concept that dysfunctional endplates may be more susceptible to mechanical trauma than are normal endplates, and that properly placed local tissue stretch can inactivate them.

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  1. “Regional muscle tension and pain ("fibrositis"). Effect of massage on myoglobin in plasma,” Danneskiold-Samsoe et al, Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1983.
  2. “Myofascial pain and the role of myoglobin,” Danneskiold-Samsoe et al, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 1986.

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