Massage Therapists Guide to Understanding, Locating & Treating Myofas

Description

This fully illustrated book offers all you need to know, answering questions such as: why do trigger points exist? Where are they located? How do I find them? More importantly, how can I fit these ideas & methods into a massage setting? (2007) 170pp

This guide offers an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, evidence-based explanation of myofascial trigger points. Information is presented in a simple format, with short explanatory paragraphs, bullet-point summaries, numerous line drawings and photographs, key concepts boxes in each chapter, and a full glossary.

The book is supported by a CD-ROM which contains video clips demonstrating the palpation and treatment methods described within the text.

Table of Contents

1. Myofascial and other pain
2. How trigger points start – the big and the small picture
3. Different trigger points characteristics
4. Maps and other ways of locating trigger points
5. \'Measuring the pain\'
6. Finding trigger points by palpation
7. How to treat trigger points manually
8. Integrating trigger point application into massage (by Sandy Fritz)
9. Non-manual trigger point deactivation methods

Date reviewed

20/12/2007

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