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Treating Trigger Points

7/29/2013

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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.

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What are trigger points?

7/2/2013

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"Muscle is an orphan organ. No medical specialty claims it.
As a consequence, no medical specialty is concerned with promoting funded research into muscular causes of pain, and medical students and physical therapists rarely receive adequate primary training in how to recognize and treat myofascial trigger points"
David Simon, "Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual
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.   

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    Randy Barber is a massage and Bowen Therapist working in Nottingham, England

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