Myofascial pain management and trigger point therapy represent a dynamic field aimed at alleviating neuromuscular pain stemming from hyperirritable nodules within taut muscle bands. Current ...

Ancient acupuncture and modern myofascial pain therapy each focus on hundreds of similar points on the body to treat pain, although they do it differently, says a physician at Mayo Clinic who analyzed ...

This week we are going to revisit the topic of trigger point dry needling for muscular pain as I feel it is so important for the general population. Muscular pain comes in many varieties and one such ...

Dr Daitz then presented several cases of patients he successfully treated by TPI. SAN ANTONIO — Myofascial pain accounts for 75 to 90% of musculoskeletal pain, and is one of the top 10 clinical ...

The mean DASH-DLV score measured for the current study population is comparable with the mean baseline scores measured for other study populations for subjects with shoulder and arm pain. [63–65] ...

May 23, 2011 (Washington, DC) — An internal therapeutic trigger point wand can help relieve the pelvic muscle tenderness that commonly occurs in patients with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome ...

Trigger points can arise from stress, anxiety, and even vitamin deficiencies. So how can they be treated? This thermal image of the body highlights a region that contains common trigger points. We don ...

Myofascial trigger points are prevalent in both migraine and tension-type headaches. However, their role in the pathophysiology of each disorder and to what degree is unclear. Myofascial trigger ...

A. "Myotherapy" is the offspring of myofascial trigger-point therapy, which was developed in the 1940s by JFK's physician, Dr. Janet Travell, and her research partner, Dr. David G. Simons. Treatments ...

Many committed improvisers have to work other jobs to survive, but not Jason Stein. The Chicago bass clarinetist stopped giving lessons in December 2015, when his trio Locksmith Isidore (now dormant) ...