Occasionally, psychological intervention is necessary to assist with controlling the stress that can exacerbate myofascial pain syndrome. Once strength is developed, the final phase is to help the patient achieve muscle conditioning and endurance throughout the body. Patients' maintenance conditioning programs typically include walking, running and swimming, along with stretch warm-ups before they begin exercise or work in order to get healing blood flow to the muscles. Patients' jobs, which may have to be modified, can also become part of the endurance conditioning. In an aggressive program, pain may get worse before it gets better.
Complete healing can take up to a year.
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