Left untreated, myofascial pain is often experienced as a recurring cycle of spasm ... causing a sustained muscle contraction. Another theory is that repetitive small trauma to the muscle helps ...

When muscle cells are viewed under the microscope, one can see that they contain a striped pattern (striations). This pattern is formed by a series of basic units called sarcomeres that are ...

Thus, we now have atomic models of the two important states in the cross bridge cycle which are associated with phosphate release and, in some sense, muscle contraction can be said to be ...