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Muscle Pain (cont.)

How is myofascial pain treated?

  • Physical therapy
  • "Stretch and spray" technique: This treatment involves spraying the muscle and trigger point with a coolant and then slowly stretching the muscle.
  • Massage therapy
  • Trigger point injection

In some chronic cases of myofascial pain, combinations of physical therapy, trigger point injections, and massage are needed. In select cases, medication is used to treat other conditions that often occur with myofascial pain, such as insomnia and depression.

Reviewed by the doctors at The Cleveland Clinic Neuroscience Center.

Edited by Ephraim K Brenman, DO, on March 1, 2007.

Portions of this page © The Cleveland Clinic 2000-2005


Last Editorial Review: 12/14/2007


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