Muscle pain: understanding its nature, diagnosis and treatment
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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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