Trigger Point Treatments
Benefits of Trigger Point Treatment
There are many conditions that can be helped by Trigger Point treatment. Common conditions include neck and shoulder pain, back pain and sciatica, to name but a few.
See: Conditions that can be treated
Trigger Points are remarkably common, and can develop in any muscles in the body. A trigger point is a few muscle fibres that stay contracted and cause a knot in the muscle that restricts movement and causes pain.
The Price of Ignorance
Travell and Simons (leading experts in this field) believe that Trigger Points are the primary cause of pain and that the public suffers pain needlessly because too many doctors are still uninformed about them. For that reason, they believe misdiagnosis of pain and ineffective treatments often characterise the practice of medicine, resulting in enormous unnecessary cost, both to the NHS and to quality of life. Examples of mistaken diagnoses range from angina and appendicitis to tennis elbow and tension headache to name a few.
Too often when pain has a myofascial origin, diagnosis entirely eludes the physician, who then is apt to write the problem off as minor or imaginary and categorise it as untreatable. Too many people grimly live with pain that is very real and that could be very easily treated if their doctor or other health-care practitioner would simple take the time to acquire the appropriate knowledge.
See also: An Alternative to Pain Medication
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