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5.0 GUIDE TO AREAS OF REFERRED PAIN
The diagrams below list designated areas of referred pain. Click on designated areas to see the muscle or muscles that commonly refer pain to that specified area or scroll down to view the complete list.NOTE: A number of more proximal muscles that refer pain to the leg were omitted because they were beyond the scope of this report. Also omitted were certain intrinsic muscles due to poorly described referral patterns.


Figure 3. Designated areas of pain where patients may describe myofascial pain.
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ANTERIOR LEGTibialis anterior |
DORSAL FOREFOOTExtensor digitorum brevis |
The pictures above were adapted from the following reference:
Travell J & Simons D. (1992). Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual-The Lower Extremities. Volume 2. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore.