Trigger Point Massage 

Ever wonder what can be done to help headaches, neck stiffness, carpal tunnel like symptoms, tennis elbow, bursitis, frozen shoulder, back pain, low back stiffness, sciatica, and even shin splints? 

Muscle, the body's largest organ, influences the quality and longevity of our lives.  Muscle pain can make us less active, more tense or fatigued.  Everyday pressures and stresses, overused injuries in athletes, whiplash trauma and conditions like fibromyalgia or arthritis can produce muscular or "soft tissue" pain often characterized by what many medical professionals call "trigger points." 

Trigger points can present themselves as referred patterns of sensation such as sharp pain, dull ache, tingling, pins and needles, hot or cold, as well as can create symptoms such as nausea, ear ache, equilibrium disturbance, or blurred vision.  These small, hyperirritable sites in the muscle tissue sometimes refer pain to other locations as in headaches or sciatica. 

Trigger Point Massage may be the answer. It is a type of massage therapy which examines and treats muscles and muscle attachments in layers.  It addresses surface muscles and connective tissues and deeper ligaments and connective tissues.  It is closely aligned with the eastern technique of acupressure massage.  The treatment techniques are very similar, the guidelines for applying acupressure apply to most Trigger Point Release applications. 

Trigger points usually occur up and down your body along the length off the muscle.  They are most common in the axial muscles (muscles that control movement of the body from side to side), especially those used to maintain posture, but can be found throughout the body.  Trigger points generally occur in more than one location. 

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