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Abstract

Myofascial pain may be defined as pain originating from trigger points which are small circumscribed areas of focal hyper- irritability in myofascial structures which result in referred pain. Alternative terminology for myofascial pain is interstitial myofibrositis, fibrositis, myositis, myofascitis, myalgia, muscular rheumatism, etc1. Different treatment modalities have been proposed2 such as spray stretch technique, pressure technique, injection with local anaesthetics and steroids. The study was undertaken to evaluate and compare the level of pain relief obtained by trigger point injection and TENS.