Myofascial Pain

Layered under your skin, your fascia is your body’s connective tissue. When it’s in pain, it may be because your fascia is damaged or twisted. With MPS, the cause of your muscle pain is usually a small, tight muscle knot known as a trigger point. We locate your trigger points, wherever they're hiding, and then release them to ease your pain.

Our expert pain team provides comfort with a quick myofascial pain syndrome diagnosis and immediate plan for care. We work with all four types of trigger points, including:

• Active trigger points, which are spots in skeletal muscles of extreme tenderness.
• Latent trigger points, which are are dormant, or inactive, areas that act like trigger points.
• Satellite myofascial points, which are highly irritable spots in a muscle that become inactive.
• Secondary trigger points, which are highly irritable muscle spots that becomes active when other muscles are overloaded.

Myofascial pain can be chronic and crippling. But at AdventHealth, we want you to feel safe, even empowered. You'll always have a hand to squeeze no matter what symptoms hurt the most, including:

• Chronic Muscle Pain
• Headaches
• Limited Movement in Joints
• Muscle Twitching
• Numbness and/or Weakness
• Pain in the Back, Face, Mouth, and Neck
• Problems with Balance
• TMJ Pain

Even after your treatment for MPS and your pain has subsided, you may experience lingering mental fatigue. You can feel hopeful knowing that we have a team of Psychological Experts available whenever you need us to help you ease any issues with depression, anxiety, focus, or appetite. Our whole-person approach to care focuses on all of you, helping you live a life of wellness not just in body, but in mind and spirit, too.

Everyone experiences pain differently, so AdventHealth offers various forms of therapy to care for yours. Possible treatments for MPS include:

• Physical Therapy
• Stretch and Spray Technique
• Massage Therapy
• Myofascial Pain Syndrome Diet
• Tricyclic Antidepressants
• Trigger-Point Injection

If your experience with myofascial pain is particularly chronic, you may require a combination of these relief therapies. But no matter what MPS treatment you need, we'll be there to care for you with compassion, easing your pain, nourishing your mind, and soothing your spirit along the way.