Portland Trigger Point Therapy
Q: What is Trigger Point Therapy?
A: Trigger Point Therapy is the study and practice of identifying Trigger Points on a patience body and proceeding with a treatment plan that will alleviate muscle pain and headaches among other ailments. Trigger points or trigger sites are described as extremely irritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibers.
Access Health Centers of Portland, Oregon believes in the power of Trigger Point Therapy. Many individuals suffer from muscle pain and headaches caused by palpable nodules and small contraction knots. Compression of a trigger point can. Trigger point practitioners believe that palpable nodules are small contraction knots[ambiguous] and a common cause of pain. Compression of a trigger point may cause local tenderness, sharp pain, or an irritable twitch. Through identifying pain patterns and manipulation of various Trigger Point locations on the body we are able to alleviate pain, discomfort, and annoying twitching. As experts in both Chiropractic Medicine and Trigger Point therapy we are able to provide a superior healing treatment program for our patients.
History of Trigger Point Therapy
Although not completely embraced by Western Medicine, Trigger Point Therapy has been proven through clinical study to be a successful course of treatment for many physical ailments. Trigger points have been a subject of study many doctors for several decades. The existence of tender areas and zones of induration in muscles has been recognized in medicine for many years and was described as muscular rheumatism, fibrositis, myogelose or myalgie. The first major breakthroughs in Trigger Point Therapy were made by J. H. Kellgren at University College Hospital in London, England during the 1930s. Around the same time Michael Gutstein in Berlin and Michael Kelly in Australia also provided major contributions to the field.
