What Is Clinical Trigger Point Therapy?

Posted by Mikes Musclerepair on September 11th, 2015

Trigger points are the causes of many types of pain. But what are trigger points? A trigger point is a tight area within muscle tissue that causes pain in other parts of the body. For instance when you have a trigger point in the back, it can produce referral pain in the neck. Subsequently the neck, now acting as a base trigger point, can cause pain in the head. You can experience a pain that is sharp and intense or a dull ache. Trigger points are painful when pressed on, cause a shortening of the muscle fibers, and have a special property called referred pain. Referred pain means that a trigger point in one muscle can create pain in another area.

It is a fact that muscles make up between 36-42% of body weight, and they are a large percentage of your total weight. Obviously they have an equivalent impact on your health. Muscles when healthy and working in order allow you to perform daily tasks with ease. However when your muscles clasp trigger points, you will experience pain, stiffness and tension, physical limitation and loss of normal function. According to experts the factors that affect trigger point formation include de-conditioning, poor posture, repetitive mechanical stress, mechanical imbalance, joint disorders, non-restorative sleep and vitamin deficiencies.

Myofascial Clinical Trigger Point Therapy is one of the effective means to stop the pain and suffering of the muscles. Myofascial means muscle tissue (myo) and the connective tissue in and around it (fascia). It is found that Myofascial pain is the outcome of any type of muscle injury or repetitive strain. It is observed that when stressed or injured, muscles often form trigger points, like contracted knots that cause pain and tightness. The neuromuscular therapy experts diagnosis Myofascial Pain Syndrome or Chronic Myofascial Pain which is the primary source of your symptoms are from these myofascial trigger points.

Clinical trigger point therapyat Mike's Muscle Repair Shop enables release of knotted muscles and proper blood circulation. As a team of professionals offering Noninvasive Muscular Pain Relief Treatments they focus most of the muscular therapy work primarily on trigger point release. Mike's Muscle Repair Shop, LLC comprises of fifteen highly trained and gifted muscular pain and dysfunction specialists helping the clients get well and live a pain free lifestyle. The clinic provides treatment for conditions including upper back, neck and headache pain, shoulder pain, spinal pain, mid-back pain, sciatica, TMJ pain, hip pain, knee pain, lower leg and foot pain and many more.