Trigger Points
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Myofascial Trigger Point (TrPs) - A hyperirritable spot in the skeletal muscle that is associated with a hypersensitive nodule that can be felt upon examination in an associated taut band within the muscle. The spot is painful on compression and can give rise to characteristic referred pain, referred tenderness, decrease the neuro-muscular system’s ability to produce or control motion, and induce involuntary central nervous system phenomena .1 - Area of congestion within a muscle due to sustained shortening of muscle fibers. Trigger points are common pain generators that are a result of dysfunction.2
(1) Travell and Simons. Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction – The Trigger Point Manual Vol. 1.3 rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999. Print (2) Liebenson, Craig. Rehabilitation of the Spine – A Practitioner’s Manual. 2 nd ed. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams& Wilkins, 2007. Print |
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| Trigger Points explained with animation [Published on June 06, 2013] This first video is a short explanation and introduction to the trigger point. Many health and pain problems, like frozen shoulder, chronic neck stiffness and migraine are related to trigger points. People can learn how to effectively treat trigger points themselves. I hope to show you in this video that trigger points are a fact, not a theory. | ||||
