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1998

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

頸部疼痛;小面關節;小面關節注射;肌膜引痛點;neck pain;facet joint;facet injection;myofascial trigger point

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Facet Injection To Control The Recurrent Myofascial Trigger Points : A Casereport, Pei-Hsin Lee, Poi-Wei Lin, Lin-Fen Hsieh, Chang-Zern Hong Mar 1998

Facet Injection To Control The Recurrent Myofascial Trigger Points : A Casereport, Pei-Hsin Lee, Poi-Wei Lin, Lin-Fen Hsieh, Chang-Zern Hong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Recurrent myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) may be caused by or associated with chronic soft tissue lesion(s) which can not be easily identified. We hereby report a case of recurrent myofascial trigger points in the upper back muscles, which were successfully controlled after one treatment of cervical facet injection.This patient was a 40-year-old man who had suffered from chronic left upper back pain and soreness with tingling sensation and back stiffness for six months. He had active MTrPs in the left levator scapulae, left rhomboid major and minor, left upper trapezius, and left serratus posterior superior muscles. Spurling sign was negative. …