An infection of meninges, protective tissue of the brain that causes stiff neck ... A disorder that affects muscle and soft tissue characterized by chronic muscle pain, tenderness, fatigue ...

Patients had to meet the following inclusion criteria: mechanical neck pain, neck pain history ... 16 didn't show any MTrP in the right upper trapezius muscle, 3 were excluded due to a positive ...

Speculatively, tenderness of the deltoid muscle may reflect referred pain from undiagnosed ... the anatomical overlap of several neck/shoulder muscles – e.g. trapezius and supraspinatus ...