Myofascial origins of low back pain

1 February 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 73 (2) , 99-108
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1983.11697758

Abstract

“Oh, my achin' back” may be the complaint when the problem really arises in the pelvic muscles or muscles of the lower extremity. In the third part of their three-part article, Drs Simons and Travell explain how this occurs and furnish detailed information on diagnosis and treatment Part 1 (page 66) provides an overview of the subject of myofascial low back pain, and part 2 (page 81) considers the torso muscles.

Keywords

This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:

Division of the Pyriformis Muscle for the Treatment of Sciatica
Archives of Surgery, 1976
Commonly Overlooked Pain Syndromes Responsive to Simple Therapy
Postgraduate Medicine, 1975
Coccygodynia
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 1963
FACTORS AFFECTING PAIN OF INJECTION
JAMA, 1955
The Myofascial Genesis of Pain
Postgraduate Medicine, 1952
Pyriformis syndrome in relation to sciatic pain
The American Journal of Surgery, 1947
LUMBAGO AND ABDOMINAL PAIN
The Medical Journal of Australia, 1942
The relation of the sciatic nerve and of its subdivisions to the piriformis muscle
The Anatomical Record, 1937
COCCYGODYNIA AND PAIN IN THE SUPERIOR GLUTEAL REGION
JAMA, 1937
SCIATIC PAIN AND ITS RELIEF BY OPERATIONS ON MUSCLE AND FASCIA
Archives of Surgery, 1937