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Altered muscle activity during rest and during mental or physical activity is not a trait symptom of migraine - a neck muscle EMG study

Overview of attention for article published in The Journal of Headache and Pain, March 2018
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Title
Altered muscle activity during rest and during mental or physical activity is not a trait symptom of migraine - a neck muscle EMG study
Published in
The Journal of Headache and Pain, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s10194-018-0851-5
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Authors

Kerstin Luedtke, Jan Mehnert, Arne May

Abstract

Migraineurs have a high prevalence of neck pain prior to or during headache attacks. Whether neck pain is a symptom of migraine or an indicator for a constant neck muscle dysfunction potentially triggering migraine attacks is a topic of scientific debate. The presence of myofascial trigger points in neck muscles including the trapezius muscle, points towards muscle alterations associated with migraine. We measured electromyography (EMG) of the neck muscles in a large cohort to identify whether neck pain and neckmuscle tension reported by migraine patients can be attributed to increased neck muscle activation during rest, mental stress or physical activity. Surface EMG responses of the trapezius muscle were recorded during a paradigm including rest periods, mental stress and physical activity of 102 participants (31 chronic migraine, 43 episodic migraine, 28 healthy participants). All groups showed increased trapezius activity during mental stress and physical activity compared to rest. There was no statistically significant difference between migraine patients and healthy controls for any of the 3 conditions except for the initial mental stress situation (F (2,56.022) = 8.302, p = 0.001), where controls increased tension by only 4.75%, episodic migraineurs by 17.39% and chronic migraineurs by 28.61%. Both migraine groups returned to resting EMG levels within the same timeframe as healthy controls. Neck pain associated with migraine can therefore not be attributed to increased trapezius activity during rest, mental stress and physical activity or prolonged muscle activity and should not be seen as a constantly underlying trigger but rather as an accompanying symptom of migraine.

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Unknown 117 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 16 14%
Other 14 12%
Student > Master 14 12%
Researcher 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 24 21%
Unknown 32 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 17%
Unspecified 6 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Sports and Recreations 5 4%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 41 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 December 2023.
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