The defining symptom of a trigger point is referred pain; that is, trigger points usually send their pain to some other site

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Trigger Point Therapy

The defining symptom of a trigger point is referred pain; that is, trigger points usually send their pain to some other site. This is the reason conventional treatments for pain so often fail. It's a mistake to assume that the problem is at the place that hurts! Travell and Simons' research has shown that trigger points are the primary cause of pain seventy-five percent of the time and are at least a part of nearly every pain problem.

Trigger points cause headaches, neck and jaw pain, low back pain, tennis elbow, and carpal tunnel syndrome. They are the source of the pain in such joints as the shoulder, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle that is so often mistaken for arthritis, tendinitis, bursitis, or ligament injury.

Even fibromyalgia may have its beginnings with trigger points.

The difficulty with trigger points is that they cause referred pain. This displacement of pain is what throws everybody off, including most doctors. It’s why pain is so often misdiagnosed and treated with painkillers--the shotgun approach. Pain is a message that something's wrong and needs your attention. Is it good medicine to kill the messenger and ignore the message?

Methinks something is a foot with this method of treatment or thinking. What you need is a good old ischemiuc pressure into them thar trigger points. That will get you sorted. Just ask any 6ft wide football player I have treated who cried like babies when I exerted pressure with my thumbs into their poor little delicate gastro's (or baby cows for the non initiated) The poor lambs squeeled in pain only to find the pain easing over then next day of two!Lucky for me!

Anyway contact me now if you need my thumbs in your Calves now! See some typical Trigger Point Pain Patterns below!

Trigger point in the Neck Trigger Points in the leg Trigger Points in the arm Trigger points of the Face

Dave@allsportinjuries.ie or call 087 97 86 814