Back And Neck Pain Relief Therapy

Trigger Point Therapy Works

The problems associated with getting back and neck pain relief therapy that really works are well known. the cure for such pain is often elusive.  Although it may be interesting to read about the causes of neck and back pain it really isn't what you are after is it? You are looking for a back and neck pain relief therapy not descriptions I feels sure! 

I don't claim to have found a solution for each and every pain but I have found something that worked dramatically for me and it could very easily work for you too.

I was looking for neck and back pain relief after I suddenly developed the most excruciating back and neck pain. It seemed to come on for no real reason, which I now know is very typical of neck and back pain.

You may already have heard of trigger point pain therapy and perhaps dismissed it or even tried it and given up. I had bought the book 'The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook'  by Claire Davis a couple of years earlier but I hadn't really found much in it to help me at that time. I bought it while searching for pain relief therapy for a chronic face pain but I wasn't successful at curing that using trigger points.  

But when I developed acute back and neck pain I thought the ideas in the book might be helpful for that kind of pain. None of the over the counter pain killers helped and although I did go to the physiotherapy that didn't really make much of a dent in the pain either.It was so bad that I was unable to sleep or do anything much at all and was just desperate.

 Using Trigger Point Pain Therapy

I got the Trigger Point Pain Relief Therapy book out and spent a couple of days reading and trying to discover my trigger points using the guilines and diagrams. Then I had a bit of a breakthrough. I found a trigger point which was definitely connected to the pain. I could tell because it hurt so much when I pressed on it, which was just what the author described. I massaged it several times for a couple of days, hoping I was doing it right. It hurt and it increased the pain so I was pretty sure I was in the right spot, but I didn't really expect anything sudden.

Then yesterday, right after my back and neck pain relief therapy session the pain almost vanished. It was so astonishing that I knew it was a real breakthrough. When I sat down at my computer and found that I could use it without increasing the pain I knew I was onto something. I hadn't been able do that since the neck and back pain started, it had been just too painful. Now suddenly it was OK. It wasn't completely cured but it had gone from an 8/10 on the pain scale to about 3/10.

The Trigger Point Pain Relief Therapy Workbook

Claire Davis who is the author of the Trigger Point Therapy Work Book, developed the method that was first conceived by Travell & Simons and described in their "Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual ". Travell & Simons' book was written for professionals and is not very accessible.

Claire Davis has built on their method to make it possible for us to treat ourselves using trigger point pain relief therapy. The Trigger Point Pain Relief Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition is very easy to understand and has clear drawings of the muscles and the location of their trigger points. It describes exactly what type of referred pain each may produce and how to carry out the therapy.

Massaging your trigger points is a painful business. It feels as if you have hit a nerve and you just have to grit your teeth and keep at it for 30 seconds or so. Anyone in constant pain will not find this too much to put up with for the sake of relief. In a way it is a good pain because it tells you that you are in the right place.

Claire Davis writes that as a massage therapist he has found that many many types of pain are caused by trigger points and can be treated. He laments that so few health practitioners are aware of this type of pain therapy for back and neck.

It is worth giving trigger point pain therapy for neck or back a try because it is something you can do at home very easily and it can have dramatic effects.

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