THE COMPARISON BETWEEN MANUAL TRIGGER POINT AND DRY NEEDLING IN TREATING UPPER AND MIDDLE BACK MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROME IN SPORT PLAYERS
Keywords:
Myofascial pain syndrome in the upper and middle back is a very common dysfunction in clinics whose patients have a wide variety of occupations (office workers, athletes, etc.).Abstract
Myofascial pain is usually diagnosed by the specific presence of at least one myofascial trigger point (MTrPs) that can be defined as a hyperirritable point on the surface of a tense band located on the muscle fibers [1].
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