Trigger point injections may help relieve chronic muscle pain, including pain in your neck. These injections target “knots” in your muscles called trigger points that can cause pain, stiffness, and ...

Trigger point injections can help treat some forms of chronic muscle pain. After your injections, you may experience some mild tenderness or soreness, but you can go back to your normal activities ...

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 ...

This thermal image of the body highlights a region that contains common trigger points. We don’t know exactly how trigger points form but it is thought to be associated with chronic stretch or ...

A trigger point is a point in the soft tissue (muscle, skin, ligament, tendon) that triggers pain when it is touched or stressed. The trigger point develops because there is too much strain on the ...

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 ...

Trigger point dry needling has an ominous name which sounds quite barbaric at first notice. However, looking at the history and the results with this technique, one would have to come to the ...

You know when you’re gliding over a foam roller and all of a sudden, you hit that sweet spot—and by sweet, we mean teeth-grinding, stomach-clenching sore spot? That’s not just a sore spot, that’s a ...

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 ...