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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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Apropos, isn't it, that MDs and DCs and PTs who lack the skillset to locate and release trigger points deny that trigger points exist. I am ashamed to say that a large percentage of our fellow massage therapists also look for excuses for their inability to treat trigger points.
About this thread, Gordon, please leave it open for others to post their own experiences. Or, maybe rename the thread? Instead of the current name, A Typical Experience, word it so that anyone who stumbles across the thread will recognize immediately that here they can discover the benefits of trigger point therapy for the therapist and especially for their clients., and through questions and answers learn trigger point treatment techniques.
I-- we, your followers-- have benefited greatly from the information you've shared. You will be busy in your well-earned new position. We hope that you will find time to continue to share your experiences with us.
Apropos, isn't it, that MDs and DCs and PTs who lack the skillset to locate and release trigger points deny that trigger points exist. I am ashamed to say that a large percentage of our fellow massage therapists also look for excuses for their inability to treat trigger points.
About this thread, Gordon, please leave it open for others to post their own experiences. Or, maybe rename the thread? Instead of the current name, A Typical Experience, word it so that anyone who stumbles across the thread will recognize immediately that here they can discover the benefits of trigger point therapy for the therapist and especially for their clients., and through questions and answers learn trigger point treatment techniques.
I-- we, your followers-- have benefited greatly from the information you've shared. You will be busy in your well-earned new position. We hope that you will find time to continue to share your experiences with us.
If they can treat trigger points successfully, but choose not to in order to entice clients (patients?) to come in for appointments for months on end, then their ethics are questionable. BTW, I and everyone who has experienced the instant relief obtained with a skillful trigger point evaluation and treatment doubt the intellect of any "ethical" professional who denies the existence of trigger points.
As for that link and its author, I've had several arguments with him over on LinkedIn about the existence of trigger points. I've just read the entire article and all comments. My opinion remains that the "theory" advanced as it it were ironclad proof by Quntner doesn't even mention the trigger point therapies employed by massage therapists. The entire focus of Quintner's criticism are the methods used by physical therapists-- stretching, injecting, freezing spray coupled with minimal "milking" compression (i.e., light, intermittent compression of the TrP). Not one word about even the tried-and-true but needlessly painful hard compression of the tender spot currently being taught in a few massage schools..
No mention of, and certainly Quintner has zero knowledge of the advanced methods you and I (to a far lesser extent) employ that obtain trigger point release --painlessly-- in seconds.
But, trying to educate these willfully ignorant self-proclaimed gurus is akin to trying to inform a willfully ignorant fan of the true nature of the newly elected wannabe-- soon to become-- multibillionaire.
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