ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Is Shear-Wave Elastography a Clinical Severity Indicator of Myofascial Pain Syndrome? An Observational Study.
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- Comparison of interfascial plane injection and trigger point injection for upper trapezius myofascial pain syndrome in young women: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Strain-based biomarkers at the skin surface differentiate asymmetries in soft tissue mobility associated with myofascial pain.Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2025Article
- Strain-based biomarkers at the skin surface detect changes in soft tissue mobility linked to myofascial pain following soft tissue manipulation intervention.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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- Association between elasticity of tissue and pain pressure threshold in the tender points present in subjects with fibromyalgia: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
- Upper trapezius muscle elasticity in cervical myofascial pain syndrome measured using real-time ultrasound shear-wave elastography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Body Composition and Demographic Features Do Not Affect the Diagnostic Accuracy of Shear Wave Elastography.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Inter-Examiner Disagreement for Assessing Cervical Multifidus Ultrasound Metrics Is Associated with Body Composition Features.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Since manual palpation is a subjective procedure for identifying and differentiate Myofascial Trigger Points -MTrPs-, the use of Shear Wave Elastography -SWE- as an objective alternative is increasing. This study aimed to analyze pain pressure thresholds -PPTs- and SWE differences between active MTrPs, latent MTrPs and control points located in the upper trapezius to analyze the association of SWE features with clinical severity indicators (e.g., pain extension area, PPTs, neck pain and neck disability). An observational study was conducted to calculate the correlation and to analyze the differences of sociodemographic, clinical and SWE features on 34 asymptomatic subjects with latent MTrPs and 19 patients with neck pain and active MTrPs. Significant PPT differences between active with latent MTrPs (
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