Muscle pain has confused physicians for centuries. Muscles account for half the weight of your body but they are strangely absent from the examination and treatment that you generally get from your doctors.  There are many reasons for this, including: 
1.    Physicians don't agree on what to call muscle pain,
2.    They don't teach about muscles in medical school,
3.    We don't have a standardized examination for muscle pain, and

February 19, 2010 - 1:00am — Posted by Dr. Norman Marcus

We believe that the current use of Trigger Point Injections leads to limited results based on problems identifying the proper source of the pain as well as the lack of a uniform approach to treat the identified painful region. Instead, at NMPI we perform muscle-tendon injections, which target the true source of the patient's pain, thereby eliminating that pain and allowing the patient to return to a normal, healthy, active and pain-free life.

What is a Trigger Point Injection?

December 8, 2009 - 2:54pm — Posted by Dr. Norman Marcus

"Kathy" is a 50-year-old woman who more than five years ago developed severe pain in her foot and lower leg following fractures to her leg bones. She was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, now called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. This is a very severe and poorly understood pain syndrome that generally follows some damage to an area of the body. The painful area is very sensitive to even light touch. The skin changes color and may become warmer or colder than the opposite side of the body.

December 3, 2009 - 12:25pm — Posted by Dr. Norman Marcus