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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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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 12, 2015 at 5:20pm
Acupressure wipes out a glute TP and L4 spinous pain. Gall Bladder meridian and Governing Vessel.
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Permalink Reply by Therese Schwartz on January 12, 2015 at 5:32pm

Hey Gordon!  Interesting stuff!  Unfortunately the videos are displaying upside down and I have no idea how to rotate them 180 degrees.

Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 12, 2015 at 6:12pm
That's what Everyone tells me? Lol. Gosh, I have no idea why? I'm way better working with ancient Chinese meridians then I am with hi-technology smart phones. On my iPad and iPhone they are right side up? Oh well.
Permalink Reply by Therese Schwartz on January 12, 2015 at 8:09pm

I have no idea! You are already way ahead of me just making and posting the videos! :-)

I need to learn those meridians.  I took a class on applying acupuncture/acupressure principles to CranioSacral therapy and it involved working with the meridians and acupuncture points. It was fascinating but overwhelming to have that much info in 4 days!

Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 12, 2015 at 10:20pm
What is simple, is simply seen. And what is simple is rarely understood.

In many schools, teachers and students alike are lead away from the door through which I believe they must enter. Consequently, they grow enamored with the landscape along their paths, and many stay there and consider it right. Thus, one sees them making a great uproar over the most insignificant educational theories and arguing among themselves over what is right and what is wrong. The landscapes along the way are merely appearances fashioned within the framework of the mind. As reguards to the landscape, details could be discussed witout end. -- CHOZAN SHISSAI, 17TH CENTURY SWORDMASTER.

In my opinion. Overwhelming courses are not teaching reality. A real acupressure course would have clarity over obscurity.
Permalink Reply by Gary W Addis, LMT on January 13, 2015 at 1:19am

What connection could craniosacral therapy have to acupressure, shiatsu, trigger point therapy?

Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 13, 2015 at 2:26pm
Well thats a good question Gary. But for me, the question goes further or is different. What is a meridian, how does acupressure work? I just read about acupressure on webmd. Made no sense, yet thats basically whats accepted and being taught. You have to know all this stuff, mystical stuff in order to understand it. And even then it just comes to being a belief system with no one seeing or teaching reality. But of course thats just my opinion. Yet, Truth Remains Hidden.
Permalink Reply by Gary W Addis, LMT on January 13, 2015 at 3:42pm

I apply the commonsense test; if a technique defies logic, I am skeptical till it's proven to me--to me personally-- to be effective.

Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 13, 2015 at 10:36pm
Well, I do some techniques that defie logic. But they only seem like they defie logic. A lot of peoples logic is based on belief systems, not on truth. I mean if you watch my short video clips( even though they are upside down). I took a glute TP out by touching her ankle. Defies logic, but its based on science. And it has nothing to do with CHI or anything mystical.
Permalink Reply by Gary W Addis, LMT on January 14, 2015 at 11:12am

Your methods DO pass the commonsense test for those who understand the reality that every nerve, every muscle in the body interacts with all others-- otherwise, if you tried to lift a weight lateral to midline, you'd fall over.  The body communicates, then adjusts automatically.  I mean, who hasn't, say, scratched their scalp and felt a tingle in thigh or forearm, that sort of thing.



Gordon J. Wallis said:

Well, I do some techniques that defie logic. But they only seem like they defie logic. A lot of peoples logic is based on belief systems, not on truth. I mean if you watch my short video clips( even though they are upside down). I took a glute TP out by touching her ankle. Defies logic, but its based on science. And it has nothing to do with CHI or anything mystical.
Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 14, 2015 at 7:48pm
My whole thing about writing on this thread is about the role trigger points play in everyones pain issues. And I'm finding most of the time that they( trigger points) are the problem and the people that suffer from trigger point pain are very often misdiagnosed. And if you have read the entire thread along with the attachments, you will know that I'm not the only one saying this. A perfect example of a misdiagnosed person is in the testimonial attached below. Now I'm not posting this attachment to show how great I am. Trust me I have had clients that wanted their money back after I worked on them. But the client that wrote the testimonial below suffered only from trigger points. If she would have not accidently seen me( a serious trigger point guy), she would have most likely ended up getting surgery. Prior to me, all the people she went to for her knee pain had no clue as to her real problem( not a suprise to me anymore). If I remember correctly she had multiple TPs on her hip, hamstrings, quads, around her knee, lower leg and ankle. The worst ones around her knee and quads. PS - I may have posted this testimonial before? But its still a good example.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on January 15, 2015 at 3:24pm
http://www.painmed.org/PatientCenter/Facts_on_Pain.aspx

In the link above, I just read that 100 million people in the USA are in chronic pain. From my point of view the standared medical approach is failing these people because trigger points are not even considered as the problem or part of the problem. Good soft tissue work would make a big dent in that statistic. But when I ask a massage therapist what a trigger point is, they really can't tell me. In the testimonial below, her problem was trigger points. No one ever mentioned the word trigger points to her. No one. And a lot of the therapy they were getting only perpetuated the trigger points. Almost every client I get I check for trigger points. The pain ones for sure. And 80% of the time I find very active painful trigger points. Can I help everyone. NO. But a suprisingly high percentage of them I can. Because it was all trigger points that were never considered during all their other therapies.
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