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Robert Gerwin, MD, FAAN
Medical Director and President

Partial List of Publications

• Fernandez-de-la-Peñas C, Alonso-Blanco C, Cuadrado ML, Gerwin RD, Pareja JA. Trigger Points in the Suboccipital Muscles and Forward Head Posture in Tension-Type Headache. Headache 2006;46:454–460. Download article (1.1 MB pdf) »
• Gerwin RD and Dommerholt J: Treatment of myofascial pain syndromes, in Weiner RS, Ed, Pain Management; A Practical Guide for Clinicians, M.V. Boswell and B.E. Cole, Editors. Boca Raton: CRC Press; 2006: 477–492. (Sixth Edition, chapter revision, 2002, Boca Raton, CRC Press, pp 235–249. Fifth Edition, 1998, Boca Raton, St. Lucie Press, pp 217–229.)
• Fernandez-de-la-Peñas C, Alonso-Blanco C, Cuadrado ML, Gerwin RD, Pareja JA. Referred Pain From the Trochlear Region in Tension-Type Headache: A Myofascial Trigger Point from the Superior Oblique Muscle. Headache 2005;45:1–7. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin, RD. Factors that promote persistent myalgia: myofascial pain and fibromyalgia. Acupuncture Med 2005;23(3):121–134. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin, RD. Factores que promueven las persisticia de miaglgia en el síndrome de dolor miofascial y en la fibromialgia [In Spanish, Factors that promote persistent myalgia: myofascial pain and fibromyalgia]. Fisioterapia 2005; 27:76–86
• Gerwin RD, Dommerholt J, Shah, JP. An expansion of Simons’ Integrated Hypothesis of Trigger Point Formation. Current Pain and Headache Reports. 2004, 8:468–475. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin, R. Chronic Pain Management/Myofascial Pain/Fobromyalgia. In: Wallace MS and Staats P (Eds). Just the Facts: Pain Medicine, McGraw-Hill. In Press.
• Gerwin RD. Myofascial and Visceral Pain Syndromes: Visceral-Somatic Pain Representations, (2002). J Musculoskel Pain, Vol. 10(1/2) pp 165–175. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin RD. The Diagnosis of Myofascial Pain Syndromes. In Turk DC and Melzack RP (Eds.) Handbook of Pain Assessment, 2nd Edition, 2001. The Guilford Press, New York, pp 499–518 (chapter completely revised).
• Gerwin, RD. Classification, Epidemiology, and Natural History of Myofascial Pain Syndrome. Current Pain and Headache Reports 2001, 5:412–420. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin, RD. A Standing Complaint: Inability to Sit. An Unusual Presentation of Medial Hamstring Myofascial Pain Syndrome, (2001). J Musculoskel Pain, Vol. 9(4) pp 81–93. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin, RD. Trigger point injection therapy for neuromuscular pain. In Staats, PS (Ed.), Advancements in the treatment of Neuromuscular Pain (Johns Hopkins University monograph), (2000) ProCom International, Parsippany, NJ, pp12–17.
• Gerwin RD, Shannon S. Interexaminer Reliability and Myofascial Trigger Points. In Arch. of Phys. Med. and Rehabil, (2000) 81:1257–58. (Letter to the Editor)
• Gerwin, RD. Management of persons with chronic pain. In Ozer, MN (Ed.), Management of persons with chronic neurologic illness, 2000, Boston, Butterworth/Heinemann, pp 265–290.
• Gerwin, RD. Myofascial Pain. In: Grabois, M, Garrison, SJ, Hart, KA, Lehmkuhl, ID, (Eds.), Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, The Complete Approach. 2000, London, Blackwell Science, Inc., pp. 1066–1087.
• Gerwin, RD. Differential Diagnosis of Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1999, pp. 209–215; and Vecchiet, L. and Giamberardino, MA (Eds.) Muscle Pain, Myofascial Pain, and Fibromyalgia: Recent Advances, 1999, The Haworth Press, Inc., Binghamton, NY, pp. 109–215. (attached). Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin, RD. Myofasical Pain Syndromes from Trigger Points. Current Review of Pain, 1999, Vol 3; 153–159.
• Gerwin, RD. (contributing author). Systemic Perpetuating Factors in Myofascial Pain Syndromes. Revision of the section on nutritional and hormonal factors, Chapter 4, Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual, Vol 1, 2nd Edition, Simons DG, Travell JG and Simons L., 1999, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins.
• Gerwin, RD. Myofascial pain and fibromyalgia: diagnosis and treatment. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 1998, Vol 11; 175–181.
• Gerwin, RD. Comment on Weintraub. In: Pain, 1998; pp 158. (Letter)
• Gerwin RD, Duranleau D. Ultrasound identification of myofascial trigger point taut bands. Muscle & Nerve 1997; xx: 767–68.(Letter)
• Gerwin RD: Myofascial Pain Syndromes in the Upper Extremity. Journal of Hand Therapy, 1997; 10: l30–136
• Gerwin RD, Shannon S, Hong C-Z, Hubbard DR and Gevirtz R: Myofascial trigger point examination: interrater reliability. Pain, 1997; 69:65–73. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin RD: Myofascial back and neck pain. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: State of the Art Reviews, Lavin R, Young (eds). 1995 Hanley & Bellus, Inc. Philadelphia, 9:657–671
• Gerwin RD: Neurobiology of the myofascial trigger point. In Masi, AT (Ed.) Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndromes 1994 Bailliere Tindall, London, pp 747–762
• Gerwin,RD: Diagnosis of myofascial pain syndromes. In Feldmann, E (Ed.) Current Diagnosis in Neurology 1994 Mosby, St.Louis, pp 256–258
• Gerwin RD: The management of myofascial pain syndromes. Co-published simultaneously in the Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 1(3/4):83–94, 1993; and Musculoskeletal Pain, Myofascial Pain Syndrome and the Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Proceedings from the Second World Congress on Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia (ed: Soren Jacobsen, Bente Danneskiold-Samsoe, and Birger Lund) 1993 The Haworth Press, Inc. Binghamton, N.Y., pp 83–94. Download article (pdf) »
• Gerwin RD: The clinical assessment of myofascial pain In Turk DC and Melzack RP (Eds.) Handbook of Pain Assessment 1992 The Guilford Press, New York, pp 61–70
• Wolfe F, Simons DG, Fricton J, Bennett RM, Goldenberg DL, Gerwin RD, Hathaway D, McCain GA, Russell IJ, Sanders HO, Skootsky SA: The fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndromes: a preliminary study of tender points and trigger points in persons with fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome and no disease. Journal of Rheumatology 1992 19:944–951
• Gerwin, R: Myofascial Pain. The future of pain management: the perspective of a specialist in myofascial pain. American J of Pain Management, 1:9–11, 1991
• Gerwin, R: Myofascial Aspects of Low Back Pain. In Loeser J (ed), Neurosurg Clin North Am. 2:761–784, 1991
• Hadler NM, Gerwin RD, Frank MM et al: The fourth component of complement in the cerebrospinal fluid in systemic lupus erythematosis. Arthritis and Rheumatism 16:507– , 1973
• Baker M, Hadler N, Whitaker IN, Dunner DL, Gerwin RD, Decker JL: Psychopatholgy in systemic lupus erythematosis. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 3 (2): 111– , 1973