Trigger points. Step-by-step guide to therapy for chronic muscle and joint pain

Doctors, manual therapists, physiotherapists and masseurs are more actively using this technique to relieve previously not diagnosed muscles and joint pain. This technique helps to facilitate the conditions that, as the studies have shown, are the cause of almost 25 percent of all visits to the doctor. The technique includes the application of short repeated massage movements to trigger points - tiny nodes of contractions in muscle tissue, where limited blood circulation and lack of oxygen cause pain. Trigger points cause pain throughout the body in a predictable order characteristic of each muscle, provoking discomfort from the lung to the strong. Massage of the trigger point increases blood circulation and oxygen saturation in this area and often brings instant relief