10 Trigger Points to Erase Pain
Massage Magazine has made the April 2010 issue available online — for free. It’s another great issue with features on pain relief.
Excerpt from “Trigger Points to Erase Pain” by Eric Stephenson:
The definition of a trigger point varies but usually indicates a is a taut band of tissue containing a nodule that refers sensation to other parts of the body- in other words, a painful muscle knot. There are many types of trigger points:
- Active: produces pain in an resting or moving stage
- Latent: produces pain uponi compression of tissue
- Key: has a pain referral pattern along a nerve pathway that activates a latent trigger point on the pathway or creates it
- Satellite: is created by a key trigger point
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