The ilioinguinal nerve entrapment syndrome is an abdominal muscular pain syndrome, characterized by the clinical triad of muscular type iliac fossa pain with a characteristic radiation pattern, an altered sensory perception in the ilioinguinal nerve cutaneous innervation area, and a well-circumscribed trigger point medial and below the anterosuperior iliac spine. Relief of pain by infiltration ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between variables of physical assessment - muscular strength, flexibility and dynamic balance - with pain, pain threshold, and fibromyalgia symptoms (FM). METHODS Our sample consists of 55 women, with age ranging from 30 to 55 years (mean of 46.5, (standard deviation, SD=6.6)), mean body mass index (BMI) of 28.7 (3.8) and diagnos...

Background. The flexion relaxation ratio (FRR) has been suggested as a measure of muscular performance in patients with low back pain (LBP). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the FRR was responsive to acute LBP produced from a delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) protocol. Methods. Fifty-one pain-free volunteers performed DOMS to induce LBP. Current pain intensity, trunk flex...

(Chief Assistant, Department of Chronic Rheumatism at the West London Hospital, and at the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth.) Muscular rheumatism is probably the commonest ailment that affects mankind, yet in spite of its ubiquity little really scientific work has been done on the subject until recently, and almost nothing is known about its pathology. In the last few years certain aspect...

A 65-year-old man who had lateral cervical disc herniation underwent cervical posterior laminoforaminotomy at C5-6 and C6-7 level right side. During the operation, there was no serious surgical bleeding event. After operation, he complained persistent right shoulder pain and neck pain. Repeated magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed diffuse cervical epidural hematoma (EDH) extending from C5 to T...

Pains which seem predominantly to affect the muscles are extremely common and many hypotheses regarding their genesis have been developed, but most of them have lost support in time. The concept of "fibrositis", so popular 20 years ago, is now almost universally suspect, and few would claim that any sound basis for it has been discovered. But the destruction of a hypothesis, such as "fibrositis...

Nusinersen (ISIS-SMNRx or ISIS 396443) is an antisense oligonucleotide drug administered intrathecally to treat spinal muscular atrophy. We summarize lumbar puncture experience in children with spinal muscular atrophy during a phase 1 open-label study of nusinersen and its extension. During the studies, 73 lumbar punctures were performed in 28 patients 2 to 14 years of age with type 2/3 spinal ...

In this review we introduce that mixture of low dose NGF and GDNF, which by themselves do not induce mechanical hypersensitivity the muscle, induces statistically significant decrease muscular withdrawal threshold (muscular mechani­cal nociceptive hypersensitivity). The also increases pERK immunoreactivity in DRG neurons responding to stimulation, suggesting collaborative interaction GDNF occur...

BACKGROUND Of all patients with low back pain, 85% are diagnosed as "non-specific lumbar pain". Lumbar instability has been described as one specific diagnosis which several authors have described as delayed muscular responses, impaired postural control as well as impaired muscular coordination among these patients. This has mostly been measured and evaluated in a laboratory setting. There are ...