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I had a new client the other day for an 80 minute massage. I asked him if there is anything that he wanted me to know. He told me that he suffers from a herniated disc that he has had for a few years. He has constant low back and right hip pain that at times radiates down the back of his leg to his knee. He told me that he has had two injections in his low back and has to stay on anit- inflamtory medication. Anything to avoid surgery. The pain is always there. I asked him if he ever saw a chiropractor for his pain. He said yes. But the adjustments hurt his hip so bad that he could not continiue. So here is a guy that thinks he is on the verge of surgery. I knew that there was a very strong probubllity that was not the case. The vast majority of pain people experience is nocioceptive pain( soft tissue- muscle, tendon, ligament, facia). MDs and Chiropractors see pain as neuropathic pain( nerve pain). With that asumption they give the wrong treatments and therapies. Now there is no denying that at times injections and surgery is needed. Not denying that. But most of the time - NOT. 70% to 85% of all pain comes directly from trigger points. Anyway I showed my client a testimonial from a client that I was able to help out of a very painful condition that she had delt with for a couple of years. I showed him that testimonial because all pain has a psychological eliment too it. I wanted him to start thinking maybe he is not on the edge of surgery. I palpated his entire back upper torso, both hips, and right leg. I found a very painful spot on his right L5 erectors. Another very painful spot on his right greater trochantor. A painful spot in the middle part of his lower right hamstrings. And also a tender spot on the right spinous of L3. I knew that if Iwas able to eliminate all those painful palaptory spots that I would most likely eliminate his pain problem. Because a healthy body had no painful spots even with deep massage. Ive been hunting and eliminateing trigger points for thirty years now. He walked out of the massage room pain free. He was pain free for the first time in years. All those other professional people misdiagnosed him because they assume neuropathic pain over nocioceptive pain. I assume the other way around. I'm a Massage Therapist.
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I worked for 2 hours yesterday with a 70+ year old FMS sufferer. Never had a massage, been going twice weekly to a DC for seven years for whatever relief he could provide. Mostly he was putting her on one of those oscillating massage tables for 2-4 minutes then sending her home, so, no, she wasn't getting much relief. After such a long time, she had developed systemic sensitivity-- her whole body hurt.
The worst case of FMS I've encountered-- a trigger point every two inches in her upper back; the rest of the body was true to the standard FMS diagnosis with TPs in the expected places. The "normal" tps released easily using the reflex release techniques I learned from you, Gordon. But trigger points in upper traps and infraspinatus and subscapularis and all three serratus and supraspinatus were deep beneath a thick, hard layer of fat; these required a long, painful hold using what the schools are teaching.
I did get the releases, so when we finished she left with a smile of relief. She will come in for follow ups for as long as it takes to get lasting pain relief, she promised-- and she is a close neighbor, and, because she is a retiree with money issues I'm working for whatever she feels she can afford to pay + hugs and smiles :-).
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