“The Pain from Someplace Else”
Myofascial Pain and Trigger Point
Therapy
3 Hours Continuing Education
Carolyn McMakin, M.A.,D.C.
Private Practice
Portland, Oregon
Nerve Entrapments
When a nerve passes through a muscle between taut bands, or when a nerve
lies between taut bands and the bone, the unrelenting pressure on the nerve
can cause neuropraxia in the region of compression. Patients with nerve
entrapments will have the aching and referred pain characteristic of the
TP's and the nerve compression effects of numbness, tingling, hypoesthesia
and sometimes hyperesthesia.
Table of Entrapments
| Nerves |
Muscles |
| Supraorbital |
Frontalis |
| Greater Occipital |
Semispinalis Capitis |
| Brachial plexus, lower trunk |
Scalenes |
| Sensory Radial |
Brachialis |
| Radial |
Triceps Brachii |
| Deep Radial |
Supinator |
| Ulnar |
Flexor Carpi Ulnaris |
| Digital |
Interossei |
| Brachial Plexus |
Pectoralis Minor |
| Posterior Primary Rami |
Paraspinal Muscles |
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