Abstract
The injection of 2 per cent procaine into accurately located trigger points has in general brought relief to patients suffering from chronic pain or atypical neuralgia.Chronic pain or atypical neuralgia is due to irritation of peripheral sympathetic fibers found in subcutaneous tissue, muscles, fascia of muscles, about blood vessels and in peripheral nerves, attachments of muscles to bony structures and in the para- and interspinous vertebral ligaments.The atypical neuralgia occurring in headaches, occipital neuralgia, neuralgia of the chest simulating angina pectoris, post-thoracotomy neuralgia, backache and sciatica, post-herpetic neuralgia and sprains along the costal margin and xyphoid furnishes the alarm reaction with stresses that frequently deplete the patient's adrenal cortex and anterior pituitary glands in particular.Continuance of relief after procaine injections of the trigger points seems to depend on abstinence from alcohol and restoring to normal the vitamin, mineral and endocrine imbalance.
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