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TRIGGER POINT THERAPY:
Based on the discoveries of Drs. Janet Travell and David Simons in
which they found the causal relationship between chronic pain and its
source, myofascial trigger point therapy is used to relieve muscular
pain and dysfunction through applied pressure to trigger points of
referred pain and through stretching exercises. These points are
defined as localized areas in which the muscle and connective tissue
are highly sensitive to pain when compressed. Pressure on these points
can send referred pain to other specific parts of the body. -
www.massagetherapy.com
This
trigger point chart shows specific areas that have been identified as
trigger points and typical trigger point referral patterns (please see
below for definition of trigger points). By strengthening, toning, and
massaging these areas, flexibility and strength that has been lost can
potentially be regained.
Trigger Point Therapy can relieve muscular aches and pains in association with these areas. It can also assist with the redevelopment of muscles and/or restore motion to joints. Trigger Point Performance products are specifically designed to support the massage associated with Trigger Point Therapy.
* Trigger points are described as hyperirritable spots in skeletal
muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of
muscle fibers. Trigger point researchers believe that palpable nodules
are small contraction knots and a common cause of pain. Compression of
a trigger point may elicit local tenderness, referred pain, or local
twitch response. The local twitch response is not the same as a muscle
spasm. This is because a muscle spasm refers to the entire muscle
entirely contracting whereas the local twitch response also refers to
the entire muscle but only involves a small twitch, no contraction.
The
trigger point model states that unexplained pain frequently radiates
from these points of local tenderness to broader areas, sometimes
distant from the trigger point itself. Practitioners claim to have
identified reliable referred pain patterns, allowing practitioners to
associate pain in one location with trigger points elsewhere. Many
chiropractors and massage therapists find the model useful in practice,
but the medical community at large has not embraced trigger point
therapy. Although trigger points do appear to be an observable
phenomenon with defined properties, there is a lack of a consistent
methodology for diagnosing trigger points and a dearth of theory
explaining how trigger points arise and why they produce specific
referred pain patterns.
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