A friend suggested that we make a thread on trigger points and the information that we have found and learned.
I dusted off my old speech recognition software, so any speak O's: That I don't correct please forgive.
I don't know when I first came upon information on trigger points.
someone must of mentioned it and then I started doing Internet searches and began reading from that point.
my chiropractor realized that I had trigger points in my scalenes and SCM { neck muscles }. he did something called NIMMO , which was mix of deep tissue trigger point and a slow stretching of the tight muscles.
some information on trigger points and NIMMO-
http://www.theamericanchiropractor.c...481&category=3
http://www.bridgerchiropractic.com/Nimmo-method.html
[The Problem: A Cycle of Pain
1. Trauma — Chronic pain can begin with a major injury or small harmful motions repeated over time.
2. Protective Reaction — To prevent further injury, the body responds with a protective measure. The nervous system sends an impulse to the muscles around the area of injury, causing them to tighten. The muscles that tighten create a network of tension sites called trigger points.
3. Repetition — These protective impulses are helpful while the injury heals, but the body learns through repetition. The nervous system does not sense healing and continues to send protective impulses, causing unnecessary muscle tension.
4. Chronic Discomfort — This constant tightening creates a cycle of pain that will remain until the protective impulses are interrupted.]
http://nimmoed.org/nimmocare/living-with-pain/
that is just a few of the links and information I have found- you can do a Internet search for a lot more.
Now I'll post the newest and best trigger point {TrPs} Internet links that I have found.
Explore other pages of the sites listed for more information.
http://saveyourself.ca/tutorials/trigger-points.php
http://www.pain-education.com/trigger-points.html
http://www.pressurepointer.com/pain_reference_chart.htm
http://www.triggerpointbook.com/triggerp.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_point
http://www.myofascialtherapy.org/
http://www.triggerpoints.net/
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Central Nervous System Sensitization
Recent research (Borg-Stein and Simons 2002) has shown that certain types of nerve receptors in muscles relay information to neurons located within part of the gray matter of the spinal cord. The pain is amplified there and then is relayed to areas of other muscles, thereby expanding the region of pain beyond the initially affected area.
Once this part of the central nervous system is involved, or sensitized, in this way (called central sensitization), the persistent pain leads to long-term or permanent changes in these neurons, which affect adjacent neurons through neurotransmitters (chemical substances that are produced and secreted by a neuron and then diffuse across synapses, or small gaps, between neurons, causing excitation or inhibition of another neuron). This may also cause the part of the nervous system that would normally counteract pain to malfunction and fail to do its job. The longer pain goes untreated, the greater the number of neurons that get involved, and the more muscles they affect, causing pain in new areas, and in turn causing more neurons to get involved . . . and the bigger the problem keeps getting, leading to the likelihood that the pain is going to turn into a chronic problem. The sooner pain is treated, the less likely it will become a permanent problem with widespread muscle involvement and central nervous system changes…]
http://www.triggerpointrelief.com/he.../chapter1.html
PDF info sheets/pages-
http://homepages.sover.net/~devstar/sheets.htm
Main page-
http://homepages.sover.net/~devstar/
Just found this - I had these symptoms bad for awhile and didn't know the cause at the time.
[TrPs in the sternocleidomastoid muscle (in the neck) alone can cause: clumsiness; blurred or double vision, tension headaches; runny nose; maxillary sinus congestion; spatial disorientation; unintentional veering, or cause patterns of light and dark (such as shadows along the road or escalator treads) or head motion to result in dizziness (among many other symptoms), and if you know this, you may save worry and unnecessary testing and be able to do something to relieve the symptoms]
http://thyroid.about.com/od/fibromya...tarlanyl_3.htm
first page of article here-
http://thyroid.about.com/od/fibromya...nstarlanyl.htm
A Google listing of TrP videos -
http://www.google.com/search?q=trigg...ed=0CFAQqwQwBQ
Your library should also have books on Trigger Points & therapy as well as Myofascial Trigger Point Syndrome.
I'll add more as I find info, feel free to add what you find or have learned about this topic.