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There are also areas of division of the nerve supply of a bone, called sclerotomes. Each muscle fibre is served by at least one nerve fibre, which ends in a neuromuscular junction. (This is where the stimulus to contract is passed to; almost the meeting point of a nerve fibre and the muscle fibre that it supplies.)

Figure 2.6 Dermatomes

Peripheral nerve innervation of a muscle is very closely followed by innervation of the appendicular skeleton. Any injury of these peripheral nerves may lead to fibrosis, a thickening or scarring of the connective tissue, most often as a result of injury or in the healing stage of inflammation. This often accounts for the referred areas of pain felt in the skin.