

The subsequent work of Travell and Simons elucidated trigger points and zones of radiating pain, as well as the taut bands of myofascial pain syndrome, codifying their locations in virtually every muscle of the body ( 62 63). In 1953, Bonica published a text separating myofascial pain syndrome from fibrositis ( 08). Travell first published a paper describing the diagnostic criteria and treatment protocols for myofascial pain syndrome in 1942, which laid the foundation for the modern approach to this syndrome. According to Travell, it was Good who recognized the pathognomonic trademark of myofascial pain syndrome, now called the “jump sign,” where a patient responded with a cry, grimace, or wince to palpation of the painful muscle focus ( 62).

In 1954, Schwartz reported that inactivation of trigger points by procaine injection was often an important part of the management of pain in the temporomandibular joint region ( 46). Travell and colleagues used the term trigger point in 1942 to describe the site from which pain was referred, and in 1952, adopted the expression "myofascial pain syndrome" ( 61 60). Although the term "myofasciitis" was first introduced in 1927 by Albee, it was not until 1939 that Steindler first used the terms "myofascial pain" and "trigger point" ( 02 56). Using hypertonic saline injections to irritate different anatomical areas including fascia, tendon, and muscle, he demonstrated that pain was produced that differed not only in quality but also in its specific referral pattern. It was not until the late 1930s that Kellgren provided evidence for the pathomechanism and nature of pain originating from deep connective tissue structures ( 27). Though initially embraced in the literature, the concept of fibrositis as inflamed connective tissue fell into disfavor as subsequent biopsy data failed to substantiate inflammatory pathology. It has been nearly a century since Sir William Gowers introduced the term fibrositis for a common, but idiopathic, localized form of muscular rheumatism that is now recognized as myofascial pain syndrome ( 20).Īccording to Gowers in 1904, the term “fibrositis” referred to the local tenderness and regions of palpable hardness in the muscle, which he attributed to inflammation of fibrous tissue.
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