Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 581-596, June 2007

Future perspectives: pathogenesis of chronic muscle pain

  • Roland Staud, MD (Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA)

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Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610-0221, USA

Chronic painful muscle conditions include non-inflammatory and inflammatory illnesses. This review is focused on chronic non-inflammatory pain conditions such as myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FM), and will not discuss metabolic, genetic or inflammatory muscle diseases such as McArdle's disease, muscular dystrophy, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, or inclusion body myositis.

Key words: nociception, fibromyalgia, chronic pain

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PII: S1521-6942(07)00027-7

doi:10.1016/j.berh.2007.02.013

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 581-596, June 2007

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