What Is Muscle Inflammation or Myositis?
• The condition is around for years under various names- generalized tension myalgia (muscle pain), fibrositis and myo-facial pain syndrome. Muscle inflammation is called as fibromyalgia in medical terminology. Pathophysiology of this condition is uncertain. There is a deficiency in a brain-to-body messenger-serotonin, the neuro-transmitter-results in scrambled pain messages. • If muscles have been exposed to some sort of microscopic injury- sitting all day at a desk, for example- the muscles release a substance that makes the nerves hypersensitive. These hypersensitive nerves can get muscles into such a habit of over reacting that they remain in what amounts to an almost constant state of contraction and any movement will then hurt.
