In my last blog I talked about trigger points, about how common they are and how they are associated with most of the soft tissue pain in our bodies.  I also mentioned that, manual therapists aside, trigger points are not well known in the mainstream healthcare profession, and certainly not by doctors.

This isn’t a happy situation.  On the one hand you have an almost universal source of physical pain and on the other you have the people we most frequently turn to when we hurt who are largely ignorant of the very thing which is troubling us.

It’s really not possible to write a blog about bodywork without mentioning trigger points.  They are a very big deal for us therapists because they are associated with just about every problem we see in our practices.