Björn Gerdle

TL;DR: The present study showed that mechanisms involved in referred pain, temporal summation, muscular hyperalgesia, and muscle pain at rest were attenuated by the NMDA‐antagonist in FMS patients, and suggested a link between central hyperexcitability and the mechanisms for facilitated referred pain and temporal summary in a sub‐group of the fibromyalgia syndrome patients.

TL;DR: Patients with chronic work-related trapezius myalgia have increased levels of muscle 5‐HT and glutamate that were correlated to pain intensity that indicate that peripheral nociceptive processes are active in work‐related TM.

TL;DR: Both the mean power frequencies and the signal amplitudes of the three knee extensors were positively torque dependent and it was found that the fibre type proportion and the regression coefficient of the torque (%)-mean power frequency relationship were positively correlated.

TL;DR: Time frequency methods can be applied when investigating EMG during brief contractions associated with non-stationarity, and in a great majority of the subjects and in the three muscles, significant linear force dependencies were found for STMNF.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the intensity of the needling is of importance, the DeQi stimulation resulting in the most pronounced increase in both skin and muscle blood flow.