A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - October 2020

Jan Dommerholt; Jacob N Thorp; Todd Hooks; Orlando Mayoral

doi:10.1016/j.jbmt.2020.10.001

A critical overview of the current myofascial pain literature - October 2020

J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2020 Oct;24(4):468-478. doi: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2020.10.001. Epub 2020 Oct 6.

Authors

Jan Dommerholt¹, Jacob N Thorp², Todd Hooks³, Orlando Mayoral⁴

Affiliations

¹ Bethesda Physiocare, Bethesda, MD, USA; Myopain Seminars, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: jan@bpcemail.com.
² Myopain Seminars, Bethesda, MD, USA; Charleston Southern University, North Charleston, SC, USA. Electronic address: jthorp@csuniv.edu.
³ Myopain Seminars, Bethesda, MD, USA; New Orleans Pelicans, New Orleans, LA, USA. Electronic address: trhooks@hotmail.com.
⁴ Physical Therapy Unit, Hospital Provincial de Toledo, Toledo, Spain; Seminarios Travell & Simons, Toledo, Spain. Electronic address: omayoral@sescam.jccm.es.

PMID: 33218549
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2020.10.001

Abstract

With this edition, we welcome Dr. Orlando Mayoral from Toledo, Spain as a new contributor to this quarterly myofascial literature review. Dr. Mayoral has been studying myofascial pain since the early 1990-ies. He translated the Travell and Simons Trigger Point Manuals into Spanish (Simons et al., 2004), and contributed to many scientific studies, case reports, book chapters, and books (Mayoral del Moral and Salvat Salvat, 2017). In the current review, we included several trigger point (TrP) prevalence studies as well as the usual high volume of dry needling (DN) studies. But of particular interest are the basic research studies that increasingly support multiple aspects of the integrated TrP hypothesis.

Keywords: Dry needling; Manual therapy; Myofascial pain syndrome; Trigger points.

Publication types

Editorial
Review

MeSH terms

Acupuncture Therapy*
Humans
Musculoskeletal Manipulations*
Myofascial Pain Syndromes* / therapy
Needles
Pain
Spain
Trigger Points