Three patients who were scheduled for surgical procedures for a variety of diagnoses are presented. Each of the patients presented with pain that was interpreted as a result of an operable lesion. None of the patients was assessed for a possible muscular etiology of their pain prior to being evaluated at the author's pain center. In all three patients, muscles were identified that replicated th...

The objectives of the current study were to analyze the effects of orofacial myofunctional therapy (OMT) on the treatment of subjects with associated articular and muscular temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Thirty subjects with associated articular and muscular TMD, according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC/TMD), were randomly divided into groups: 10 were treated with OMT (T group), 1...

this study determines the value of linkage analysis using six rflp markers for carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis in familial dmd/bmd cases and their family members for the first time in the iranian population. we studied the dystrophin gene in 33 unrelated patients with clinical diagnosis of dmd or bmd. subsequently, we determined the rate of heterozygosity for six intragenic rflp marker...

K.D. Mathews, MD C.M. Stephan, BSN, MA K. Laubenthal, PT, MS, PCS T.L. Winder, PhD D.E. Michele, PhD S.A. Moore, MD, PhD K.P. Campbell, PhD MYOGLOBINURIA AND MUSCLE PAIN ARE COMMON IN PATIENTS WITH LIMB-GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY 2I Fukutin-related protein (FKRP; OMIM #606596) is critical for the appropriate glycosylation of -dystroglycan, a component of the dystrophinglycoprotein complex. The 1...

Palpation, a standard procedure in the diagnostic process of muscular pain conditions – myalgia, aims to provoke a muscular pain response. The origin of pain elicited by palpation is not fully understood. There is also a possibility that the pressure elicit response from mechanoreceptors in skin, sub mucosal tissue or periosteum, which may affect the validity of the method. The aim of this stud...

Low back pain, one of the skeletal and muscular system problems, is most common chronic diseases in world. Chronic low pain an important disorder that affects daily, social, work-life individuals. The majority people experience at least once their life. In this sense, it both social economic can be acute or chronic, depending on duration syndrome. Interventional, medication, rehabilitation, exe...

The origins of the symptoms were based on only one factor – mechanical condylar displacement (Costen’s syndrome), parafunction (bruxism) as a consequence of occlusal interferences causing muscular spasm and muscular hyperactivity (neuromuscular theory) and muscular hyperactivity which causes muscle tension and spasm (muscular theory). The psychological theory considers temporomandibular disorde...

Catalepsy is a symptom resulting from problems with the nervous system, and causes muscular rigidity. People symptoms may also be less sensitive to touch have decreased sensitivity pain. generally people unresponsive speech. It similar catatonia, condition marked by strange movements, lack of movement, and/or general non responsiveness. However, it typically has an underlying physiological caus...