trigger points

[bonlove Coleman]

Hi was not not sure where to put this so please move if you need to.has any one got good suggestions for reading books on trigger point therapy pleas.thanks.x
Rayne

 

[Rahul]

Hi Rayne

Concise Book of Trigger Points is a good book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concise-Book-Trigger-Points/dp/1905367120/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286130597&sr=1-1

Best Wishes

RP

 

[Lotamel]

Travell and Simon is supposed to be the bible.

 

[bikdrwuo]

Thank you for your replies i will see if i can get hold of these.
raynex

 

[Han Technologic 2]

Donna Finando has a good Trigger Point book too

 

[KennyG]

Jane Johnson at School of Natural Therapies in Thames ditton does a good day course, so does Nikki Lee at Elysium Therapies in Kingsclere (nr Newbury) Ok to top up knowledge from book but nothing beats a good tutor

 

[hrsheno]

This book by clair Davies does not cost much and makes an excellent starting point. £11.44

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_43?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=clair+davies+trigger+point+therapy+workbook&sprefix=clair+davies+trigger+point+therapy+workbook

 

[Yamilea?]

I'm sorry ot go off topic a little bit, but do other therapists think it's a good idea to look at techniques in isolation?

I was taught to always back TP therapy with METs.... do others do that?

Myarka.

 

[sherazade92700]

Myarka, I agree the focus on techniques can be very problematic - a saw can make firewood or a Chippendale chair - the difference is in the vision of the craftsman.

Furthermore, treating any symptomatic element out of context has major drawbacks, if we're trying to be alternative, then really we need to open our vision wider. Focusing on the specific is medical, whichever methods we employ.

That said, it's worth knowing about trigger points, although I confess to not having touched one in years, except as a diagnostic. In treatment I usually leave them well alone.

[Nb. every time a patient asks us about our techniques, we risk reinforcing their preconceptions and misunderstandings. We need to be especially careful about describing out therapy in these terms. I usually avoid any practitioner who lists 1000 techniques. If they need all those methods, perhaps they're lacking something else? Moreover, do they spend all their time on courses, or looking at patients? But I'm going OT]

 

[pornhunter.biz]

Hi

I find trigger point work useful within an overall therapeutic context, but since these points are very much like "alarms", if you keep pressuring them to switch them off but always keep returning, if this benefical to the client? Isn't this an allopathic attitude and just masking the underlining problem? Also like kvdp says, tp's are good diagnosic points are well.

RP

 

[Neutrinoghost]

Hi kvdp, could you elaborate? Why do you leave them well alone?

My opinion is, trigger points are there, as RP says, as alarms, to tell us there is something wrong, so I agree that we need to treat the problems and not just the symptoms (TP), but in my experience, we cant always get rid of trigger points purely by treating the problem, we have to treat the trigger point (symptom) too.

 

[Raely]

Hi ST & Kvdp

Out of compassion I think it is useful to work trigger points as a means of pain relief and allowing the client to function a bit better. It's all that some people need to 'reboot their inner computer'. Got to be better than pain killer drugs and all the side effects. But if the problem keeps reoccuring, then more investigations and even referrels may be necessary, for example fibromyalgia.

He is an interesting insight from the founder of osteopathy, Andrew Taylor Still: "...remove with gentleness all preceived mechanical obstructions to the free-flowing rivers of life. Nature would do the rest." Now was he referring to blood, lymph, Qi, lines of myofascia or all of it?

Best Wishes

RP

 

[TheDeathMessage]

IMO effective eradication of TP's is of primary importance, once achieved everything else in rehab is so much easier........or as Still says let nature do the rest