Trigger Point Therapy is a remarkably effective therapeutic technique with rewards for your body that last. This technique is usually described as "a good pain" or "like scratching an itch".
Trigger Point Therapy
Trigger point therapy can help lighten the load on your joints by reducing muscle tension, and restore function to muscles that have been injured or otherwise impaired. If you have an unstable joint, such as an ankle you've sprained too many times, trigger point therapy may be the treatment you need to restore strength and balance to the joint. This is true also for hips, knees, shoulders and necks... really any joint in the body can benefit. The therapy feels somehow satisfying, and is often described as "like scratching an itch". Your body feels better after trigger point therapy because it becomes more efficient, and functions better, with implications for improved circulation and more comfortable nerves.
A more clinical/academic description: Trigger Points are..."Painful conditions of the musculoskeletal system, including myofascial pain syndrome, constitute some of the most important chronic problems encountered in a clinical practice. A myofascial trigger point is a hyperirritable spot, usually within a taut band of skeletal muscle, which is painful on compression and can give rise to characteristic referred pain, motor dysfunction, and autonomic phenomena." (Lavelle ED, Lavelle W, Smith HS. Myofascial trigger points. Anesthesiol Clin. 2007 Dec;25(4):841-51, vii-iii. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2007.07.003. PMID: 18054148. viewed at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18054148/ on 15/2/21)
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