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The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
 

The Frozen Shoulder Workbook: Trigger Point Therapy for Overcoming Pain & Regaining Range of Motion

 Trigger Point Self-Care Manual: For Pain-Free Movement

 The Concise Book of Trigger Points

 The Manual of Trigger Point and Myofascial Therapy

 Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia: Trigger Point Management

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Trigger Points: Diagnosis and Management - American Family Physician

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Massage is much more than a tool for relaxation.  Massage helps the body to heal itself and increases health and well being. For those who are ill, have pain or for various reasons don't/can't exercise, massage provides some tangible health benefits. 

Massage stimulates the circulation and lymph system which helps the body to detoxify.  During massage, the body tissues and muscles receive more blood and therefore more oxygen. This in turn helps to purge lactic and uric acid along with other waste materials.  Due to the increase in circulation and purging of toxins, many believe that massage boosts the immune system and benefits muscle tone, digestion and skin tone. 

Massage helps to provide better mobility through pain relief.  It helps with pain by relaxing the muscles and detoxifiying the body.  Toxins can cause pain so while initially you may feel more pain, you will receive varying degrees of relief over time.

Elevated blood sugar as is seen in diabetes, causes a thickening of ones connective tissue, which affects the mobility and elasticity of the myofascial system. This may cause stiffness in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments or a decreased range of motion in the joints.  Massage can not only help to relieve these symptoms but it may help to stabilize blood sugars as well.
Improving Blood Sugar

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Trigger Point Therapy
A trigger point is a small contraction knot in muscle tissue.  They can be felt with the fingers and often feel like a pea buried deep in the muscle.   They emit distinctive electrical signals that can be measured by sensitive electronic equipment. They affect a muscle by keeping it tight and weak.  They almost always cause referred pain (pain that manifests in other areas of the body). 

Trigger points are common in everyone, including babies and children.  They can develop in over 200 pairs of muscles in the human body giving them a wide range of effect. The concept of trigger points is important for everyone but especially for those who have an illness where muscle pain is a component such as Fibromyalgia, Myofascial pain, Lyme Disease or Chronic Fatigue syndrome.  People with hypoglycemia are also more likely to develop trigger points.

A lack of oxygen and nutrients in the trigger point itself can perpetuate trigger points for months or years if not treated. A nasty property of trigger points is that they can exist indefinitely in a latent state in which they don't actively refer pain but accumulate over a lifetime and could be the cause of stiff joints and restricted range of motion in old age.  You may not suspect that you have latent trigger points but they are very easy to find because they are extremely painful when pressed on.  Latent trigger points can be activated by very little stress or strain.

Most of what is known about trigger points is very well documented in the two-volume medical text Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction by Dr. Janet G. Travell and Dr. David G. Simons. Dr. Travell was the White House physician during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.  Apparently President Kennedy honored her with that position in gratitude for her treatment of his myofascial pain and other ailments which threatened to end his political career. She used trigger point therapy for his Myofacial pain with a lot of success!

According to The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, by Clair Davies N.C.T.M.B. and others, trigger points are responsible for a huge array of symptoms such as:  joint and muscle pain, lack of circulation from compressed blood vessels, nasal secretions, nausea, toothaches, tooth hypersensitivity, tingling in extremities from nerve compression, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, visual disturbances, headaches, migraine headaches, bladder problems, heel pain, heart arrhythmia, diarrhea, loss of appetite and the list goes on and on. 

Most conventional pain treatment focuses on the site of the pain rather than the origin or the trigger point which is why conventional therapy often fails. With the use of  The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook and The Thera Cane (consider getting the Thera Cane Instructional DVD with it) , you can effectively do your own trigger point therapy, relieving yourself of disabling symptoms and pain.

Who should avoid Massage?
According to the University of Pennyslvania Health System, massage should be avoided by anyone with congestive heart failure, kidney failure, phlebitis, cellulitis, blood clots in the legs,  contagious skin conditions and bleeding disorders. 

Consult with your doctor if you have cancer before getting massage since tissue can become fragile during cancer treatment and could be damaged with massage.  People with rheumatoid arthritis, goiter (a thyroid disorder, eczema and other skin lesions should not receive massage therapy during flare-ups.  Some experts advise that people with osteoporosis, high fever, few platelets or white blood cells, and mental impairment, or those who are recovering from surgery, may be better off avoiding massage.


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