The term<unk><unk> " was coined in 1942 by Dr. Janet Travell to describe a clinical finding with the following characteristics: * Pain related to a discrete, irritable<unk>  in skeletal muscle or fascia, not caused by acute local trauma, inflammation, degeneration, neoplasm or infection. * The painful<unk>  can be felt as a nodule or band in the muscle, and a twitch response can be elicited on stimulation of the<unk><unk> . * Palpation of the<unk><unk>  reproduces the patient's complaint of pain, and the pain radiates in a distribution of the muscle and/or nerve. Patients can have a<unk><unk>  in their upper trapezius and when compressed feel pain in their forearm, hand and fingers (S. Goldfinch)
Myofascial trigger point
Psychogenic pain
Calpainopathy
Phantom pain
Neurogenic claudication
Nerve compression syndrome
Peroneal strike
Myofascial pain syndrome