Pretreatment anxiety and pain acceptance are associated with response to trigger point injection therapy for chronic myofascial pain

ConclusionThese results suggest that responses to interventional pain management in chronic myofascial paraspinous pain may be influenced by psychological characteristics, especially pretreatment anxiety.

Source: Pain Medicine - August 1, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Gerard M. Healy, David P. Finn, David A. O'Gorman, Chris Maharaj, Miriam Raftery, Nancy Ruane, Caroline Mitchell, Kiran Sarma, Marek Bohacek, Brian E. McGuire Tags: Original Source Type: research