Chronic primary musculoskeletal pain: a new concept of nonstructural regional pain

Abstract. The concept that a regional musculoskeletal pain may occur in the absence of identifiable tissue abnormality may be puzzling. Previously these regional complaints were generally categorized as myofascial pain syndromes, or prior to the formalization of the nociplastic pain concept, as musc...

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Main Authors: Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Steven P. Cohen, Daniel J. Clauw, Geoffrey Littlejohn, Chie Usui, Winfried Häuser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2022-10-01
Series:PAIN Reports
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001024