**1.2 Tightened muscle (TM)**

TMs are the muscles that are still in pathologically tense state when patients are relaxed under the condition that the central nervous system functions normally.

#### **1.3 Pre-muscular diseases**

Pre-muscular diseases refer to the diseases that cause chronic ischemia and oxygen deficit, leading to pathological tension of muscle and its subsidiary structure.

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