Trigger Points and Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Thursday June 25, 2009
If you have tense, taut bands in your muscles and pain in distant areas from those muscles, you may have trigger points. Trigger points and myofascial pain syndrome are related to postural alignment, and can be treated by properly trained massage therapists. There are also injections that can be given into trigger points. There are several types of trigger points such as active, latent, central and key. The trigger points related to myofascial pain syndrome are not the same as the tender points of fibromyalgia. (Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome share similarities, but in reality are very different conditions.)
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Comments
Will trigger points help for chronic sternum pain resulting from heart surgery (misalignment of the sternum. The pain has continued for the last 15 years. We have tried just about everything.
Thank You.
Joanna
Joanna,
Best to speak with a doctor about that one. You might look into seeing a physiatrist. Physiatrists are licensed medical doctors specializing in rehab.
Best of luck with it.
Anne
suffering from myofacial pain (i.e. muscles pain at back, neck & right arm shoulder ) from last 45 days….
already gone with phisiotheoropy,
right now quite ok
can be its recoverable