This short, 2-minute, video is about the Trigger point injections to treat chronic muscle pain.
What do you think of this treatment option?
We would all love to hear from you if you have tried it.
You may also like to read these other articles I wrote about:
Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome (book review)
Fibro and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Myofascial Trigger Points in chronic muscle pain: Causes and Treatment
NIH Tender points/fibromyalgia vs. trigger points/myofascial pain syndrome
PubMed Trigger points and tender points
LINKED UP AT FIBRO FRIDAY, where you can read fibro posts from great fibro bloggers.
We would all love to hear from you if you have tried it.
Trigger points can be found in people with fibromyalgia but they can be found in anybody. Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome are two separate and distinct syndromes. You can have both of these conditions together. Fibromyalgia is a systemic disease process that requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach. Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a condition that arises from the referred pain and muscle dysfunction caused by trigger points. It responds to manual treatment such as ischemic compression and various specific stretching techniques.
What are trigger points?
Tight muscles that develop in your muscles after overuse are called trigger points. They cause pain throughout the muscle. When this pain persists it may become myofascial pain syndrome. According to the American Association of Family Physicians Palpation of a hypersensitive bundle or nodule of muscle fiber of harder than normal consistency is the physical finding typically associated with a trigger point.
How can trigger points be treated?
Nonpharmacologic treatments include acupuncture, osteopathic manual medicine techniques, massage, acupressure, ultrasonography, application of heat or ice, diathermy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, ethyl chloride Spray and Stretch technique, dry needling, and trigger-point injections with local anesthetic, saline, or steroid.
You may also like to read these other articles I wrote about:
Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome (book review)
Fibro and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Myofascial Trigger Points in chronic muscle pain: Causes and Treatment
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NIH Tender points/fibromyalgia vs. trigger points/myofascial pain syndrome
PubMed Trigger points and tender points
LINKED UP AT FIBRO FRIDAY, where you can read fibro posts from great fibro bloggers.
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