Future perspectives: pathogenesis of chronic muscle pain

Chronic painful muscle conditions include non-inflammatory and inflammatory illnesses. This review is focused on chronic non-inflammatory pain conditions such as myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FM), and will not discuss metabolic, genetic or inflammatory muscle diseases such as McArdleʹs disease, muscular dystrophy, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, or inclusion body myositis.