Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms

1. Introduction
Siegfried Mense, Robert D. Gerwin

2. Functional Anatomy of Muscle: Muscle, Nociceptors and Afferent Fibers
S. Mense

3. Peripheral Mechanisms of Muscle Pain: Response Behavior of Muscle Nociceptors and Factors Eliciting Local Muscle Pain
S. Mense

4. Central Nervous Mechanisms of Muscle Pain: Ascending Pathways, Central Sensitization, and Pain-Modulating Systems
S. Mense

5. Referral of Musculoskeletal Pain
Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Siegfried Mense

6. Increased Muscle Tone as a Cause of Muscle Pain
S. Mense, Alfonse T. Masi

7. Reorganized Motor Control Due to Muscle Pain
Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Human Physiology, Neurology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Anesthesiology, Rheumatology