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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 February 6, 2015 at 2:49am
I can only load one at a time.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 6, 2015 at 2:51am
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 6, 2015 at 2:58am
the other TP. Its all TPs...other wise she would not be able to move her arm pain free 180 degrees if it was a real ligament or joint problem. NO WAY.
A teres muscle, a rhomboid, a multifidi, and a pec TP... goodness!!

"It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it." -- Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 7, 2015 at 2:02pm
Gosh, a lot to type about. Anyway the X fibromyalgia person came in not to long ago for a good massage. I wrote about her earlier in the thread. She is fine. Not a trigger point to her name. Gosh they wanted to inject her spine and do all this stuff. Another client texted me the other night saying that she can walk now without pain. She has had left hip pain for years and years. She was told and thought it was because of arthritus . Went through the chiropractic thing and all the usual stuff. Ive seen her only twice. Its all trigger points. She has a lot along the edge of her sacrum, piriformis, around the trochantor and in all the glutes. But they all deactivate when I work on her. Anyway, she is getting noticeably better. Another client recently came in for a relaxation massage. After I had her read a testimonial and view a short video clip of me working on someone, she told me that she has survived cancer. I think it was ovarian cancer.. Anyway she had to get a full hysterectomy. But thank God she is now cancer free. After she told me that she then asked me if I can do anything for nerve pain? I said, Where do you hurt? She said that shortly after the surgery she developed a radiating pain from the top of her hip bone to her knee. The docs told her that during the surgery a nerve got damaged, and they wanted her to go to a pain rehab clinic and get a spinal nerve block. That means they would have done something to the nerve root at L2 or L3. Im sure there is a video on youtube about that. Anyway, long story short. Can anybody guess? It was a trigger point on her Sartorius. I will show a picture of the pain pattern in the attachment. TRUTH DOES REMAIN HIDDEN.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 7, 2015 at 2:18pm
I just want to add an attachment that you have seen several times before if you have read the entire thread. Because its the TRUTH THAT REMAINS HIDDEN.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 9, 2015 at 11:36pm
http://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk

I like to draw inspiration for my massage work by studying people outside the massage field, that have masterd their particular art or thing that they do. True masters by anyones standards. People that seemingly do the impossible, The guy in the youtube clip above is one of those inspirations for me. He is a true master. He has rediscovered an ancient art. Massage is an ancient art. I am rediscovering that ancient art.
Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 16, 2015 at 3:13pm
http://youtu.be/RJmSJD7tEQc

Again the link above is not a massage link. However for me it is related to our work.. It represents the highest level of any art or endever( like bodywork ).
Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 21, 2015 at 12:28am
This was interresting. A guy came in for a 25 minute massage. He just randomly got me. I asked him what he needed from this massage. He said " well I have low back pain, because one leg is longer then the other." Then went on telling me this compensates for this and that and on and on before I interupted him and said, "Sounds like you have been seeing a chiropractor." He said he recently started seeing another one again. He paid $300 for his first visit that included xrays, insurance paid the rest, and put on a six month treatment plan. I asked him how long he has had his low back pain. He said, "Years and years.' I had him read one of my testimonials and let him watch a one minute video clip of me working on client that was in a lot of pain. I told him there is an 85% chance that I can help him. I said that because 85% of all pain comes directly from trigger points. He had a hopeful look on his face as I told him keep your fingers crossed. I asked him specifically which part of his back hurts. He indicated his low back and told me its worse on the right. I found a mild gluteus max TP, one on each side. A mild gluteus medeus TP on the right. Several tender( maybe five) lateral spinous on the right side of his spine and one tender one on the left at L1. He had a very painful quadratus lumborum on the right where it connects on his hip. He left the spa pain free. He was one happy man. Unfortunately I can't always help everyone I see. But that was good. It cost him $55. He is going to come in for a couple of follow up visits to make sure those TPs stay gone. The QL was the main culprit. "WHAT IS SIMPLE, IS SIMPLY SEEN. AND WHAT IS SIMPLE IS RARELY UNDERSTOOD." - Master Po, Episode 5 from the TV show Kung Fu. PS- he was never told anything about trigger points ever.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 21, 2015 at 12:40pm
As a side note to the above. He told me that he was doing the exercises given him by the chiropractor religiously. Those exercises would only perpetuate his problem. He knows that now. TRUTH OFTEN REMAINS HIDDEN...LIKE A SHADOW IN DARKNESS -------- Cain, episode 25 from the TV show Kung Fu
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 22, 2015 at 1:43pm
The attachment below was ment for this thread.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 23, 2015 at 10:05pm
Had a new client recently that came in for an 80 minute massage. When I asked her what she needed from this massage she said that she has a lot of tension between her shoulders that is getting kind of bad. I asked her if this discomfort was more then normal.. She said yes, and that this massage was long overdue. I then told her that I have been massaging people for 30 yeas, and that I have a very high skill set when it comes to helping people out of pain. Then I went on to say, I dont think you will need that skill set because it sounds like you just need a really good massage. But I wanted her to watch a short one minute video clip of me working on someone that was in a lot of pain, because she may know somebody that I can help. So after she watched the short video clip, she told me that she has had on and off right hip pain for years. And that sometimes it gets so bad she can barely walk. I told her that I would check her right hip out before starting the massage. She agreed. She had a Gluteus Medius TP and a very stubbern painful Gluteus Maximus TP that I originally thought was a Piriformis TP, The Gluteus Medius TP vanished with little effort, but the Gluteus Maximus one took a while. But it too vanished after a few tries of different techniques. I then used several hot stones to massage that right hip in order to increase blood flow to the area and speed up the healing process. She told me that the hip thing has been an issue for years, so I told her that it would it would take anywhere from four to five 15 minute sessions in order to wipe those two trigger points out for good. And then there maybe another one somewhere that we missed. Anyway after the trigger point stuff, I carried on with my regular/ lomi lomi style massage that took care of her between the shoulder tension which was her original complaint, and reason for getting thie massage in the first place.
Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on February 27, 2015 at 2:58pm
It was a pain on motion day. One guy came in with acute torticollis, he could only turn his head to the left. Well he came in a couple of days ago.. I worked on him for a half hour before he was able to turn his head pain free to the right. But that night he said his neck really hurt and he could not sleep well. But in the morning he had pain free full range of motion. I probably worked on him a bit too long, but it still worked out and he was very happy. Another client was in a skiing accident that injured her shoulder. She had been dealing with right shoulder pain for a month that sent radiating pain down to her elbow. And of course she came in for a relaxation massage. After she told me of her accident and subsiquent shoulder problem, I let her read one of my testimonials and view a short video of me working on a client. Then she told me that if I think i can help her shoulder problem, go for it. She could only lift her arm parrallel to the ground before pain stopped her. By the end of the session she could lift her arm full range of motion over her head without pain. You should have seen the look on her face. lol She will need some follow ups.. but her problem is soon over. I found a lot of trigger points, not only in her shoulder area but throughout her back and low back. Substancial ones too. Hips and legs were fine. Anyway she is real happy. So gosh, thats a good day for me.

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