The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
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Trigger points typically cause pain on the same side of the body where they are located. Rarely do they send pain to the opposite side. You’ll notice a tendency for trigger points to send their pain away from the center of the body, but the reverse is occasionally true, too.
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There are a few reasons to be cautious with deep stroking massage. Here is a rule to live by: never massage a pulse.
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In the case of tendinosis, it is better therapy to unload the short, tight muscles that are creating strain at the attachment site. This includes massaging the whole muscle and the belly of the muscle fiber where the trigger points occur. After thoroughly massaging the muscle, massage the spot-specific site of pain with multidirectional friction for twenty to thirty seconds. Basically, that means that you press into the spot, go left and right, then up and down, and then diagonal for a short while.
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