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You feel constant muscle soreness and sensitivity in certain regions of your body. And, it’s not just the usual everyday body ache. It’s one that is accompanied by tender knots in your muscles and may even extend to other (often unrelated) parts of your body. Does that make you wince even as you were reading about it? Unfortunately, this kind of pain is real and it affects people who are diagnosed with a medical condition called Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS).
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So, what exactly is Myofascial Pain Syndrome?
From the term myofascial, you can deduce that it affects both muscle (myo) and fascia. The former is quite a familiar word, but the latter might not be. And if you’re curious to know about it, the fascia is simply a term for the surrounding band or thin sheet of connective tissue that envelops your muscles.
As for the pain? For the most part, if you have MPS, your chief complaint will be chronic worsening aches in certain regions of the body. This kind of persistent