Latent myofascial trigger point injection improves symptoms in functional gastrointestinal disorders
Shuo Shang, Yu Liu, Jing Liu, Feng Qi, Department of Anesthesiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong Province, China
Shuo Shang, Qing-Lin Bai, Zhong Zhang, Department of Anesthesiology, Ji’nan Zhangqiu District People’s Hospital, Jinan 250200, Shandong Province, China
Author contributions: Shang S, Liu Y, Bai QL, and Zhang Z were responsible for patient recruitment, trigger point identification, and injection procedures; Shang S and Qi F conceived and designed the study; Liu Y and Liu J drafted the initial manuscript; Liu J performed data curation, statistical analysis, and interpretation; Qi F supervised the overall study conduct and provided administrative support. All authors contributed to critical revision of the manuscript and approved the final version.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University (Approval No. KYLL-202306-011).
Clinical trial registration statement: This study has been registered with the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry under the registration No. ChiCTR2100050013.
Informed consent statement: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their inclusion in the study. All participants were fully informed about the purpose, procedures, potential risks, and benefits of the study and were assured that their participation was voluntary and that they could withdraw at any time without any consequences.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the CONSORT 2010 Statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CONSORT 2010 Statement.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available beyond those presented in this article.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Feng Qi, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, No. 107 Wenhua Xi Road, Jinan 250012, Shandong Province, China.
198962001111@sdu.edu.cn
Received: August 1, 2025
Revised: September 15, 2025
Accepted: October 29, 2025
Published online: December 27, 2025
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