Continuation:

4. Method 4: Example: If you have a tp on the neck and is referred down the back, ask client where, while you are still engaging the tp in the neck. Put your finger down there till your client says you have found it. Take both of them together up to a level 3, one at a time. Hold till it backs off and repeat. You can also do this with method 1 to hold for 10 sec and repeat, gently, never above a level 3. If you go above level 3 and hit a hight 4 or 5, back off right away and slowly start over.

By the way, my wife has severe fibro. Had it bad for years. She no longer has it because of trigger point. I remember when I first worked on her in her home hospital bed. Her whole body was numb and sensitive at the same time. No feelings whatsoever below the waist, numb feet could not feel the floor. After 3 hours, he entire right side from head to to was no longer numb, she had over 75% feeling restored in her foot. It took several sessions and after that, no more fibro, like gone! So realistically, 1 hr sessions and 3rd day, new appointment every 3 days till gone. You have to ask client, if time permits, to continue on. Remember, on bad cases like fibro, on the 3rd day, about 15% of TP's will return, because you cannot expect to get them all. Too much work and too much pain for them to endure. And when you are getting results, they are getting out of pain.

Important Note on Trigger Point.
It is a good followup to use cold spray after doing the work. I find that it helps "Hold" the work you did longer. It is one thing to do 5 trigger points, but quite another when you are working on a fibro patient with several hundred, all over the body. Taking on a Fibro patient is quite a commitement, and expensive every three days. That is also an important note, every 3 days, or you will start to loose out on the work you did. You got to get it all.

There is one advanced technique most people do not know about. I check for evidence of it and then I do it. It is called Trigger Point Tracing. This is where several triggerpoints are linked together and for no rhyme or reason, does not follow a normal pain pattern, so that means those tp charts will do you o good.

Its very simple. Find tp1, ask client where the strongest referred pain is. While still engaging tp1, find and center on tp2 . Does tp2 refer? Maybe back to tp1 but lets say it goes on. You go to that new area too. While still holding tp2 bring other hand and find tp3. Sometimes it is good to do tp1 & tp2 together at the same time with followup doing tp2 & tp3 together. When they are linked together like this, this is the only way you are going to find those difficult ones. Try this sometime. Results are amazing. You will fix something they did not even know needed fixing.

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Hi Shirley!

 

Business in Las Vegas is slow.  I'm doing pretty well as I own and operate my own business and have built it up over the years.  Unfortunately my therapist friends who work for other spas and such are having their hours cut and their rates reduced. 

 

Our economy here is still doing poorly.  I'm not a fan of the media either, such as the local news.  All they ever report on is the 'bad' and never the good.  Sure, when the reports and info comes out stating our unemployment numbers and 'gaming' numbers, sure, it needs to be told, but why not follow with stories about how to 'make it' in this tough economy?

 

Oh well  ;)

 

Pleasure to meet you and have a great day!

 

Kris