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Trigger Point Therapy - Treating Spondylolisthesis

Trigger Point Therapy - Treating Spondylolisthesis

  Trigger Point Therapy Treatment for Spondylolisthesis    Spondylolisthesis is a fracture and slippage of a spinal vertebra (usually lower lumbar). It can develop for a range of reasons and...
Trigger Points - An Overview of the Evidence Base

Trigger Points - An Overview of the Evidence Base

Dr. Jonathan Kuttner Presents an Overview of the Evidence Behind Trigger Point Therapy   Drs. Janet Travell and David Simons (1992) described a trigger point as, “A highly irritable localised...
Anterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome (AINS)

Anterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome (AINS)

  Testing for Median Nerve Entrapments - Stuart Hinds      Anterior interosseous nerve syndrome (AINS) is one of 3 common median nerve entrapment syndromes; the other two being pronator teres...
Massage Therapy for Sciatica?

Massage Therapy for Sciatica?

  As lower body tension can be rooted in tension in the feet it is important to work the feet prior to working deep into the legs. We start by...
Treating Shoulder Pain - Deltoid Muscles

Treating Shoulder Pain - Deltoid Muscles

 Treating Trigger Points in the Deltoid Muscles   Deltoid pain is most often mistaken for bursitis or rotator cuff injury The deltoid, along with supraspinatus and associated rotator cuff muscles, will regularly develop...
Trigger Point Therapy - Treating Pectineus

Trigger Point Therapy - Treating Pectineus

   Treating Trigger Points - Hip Adductors / Pectineus   Pectineus trigger points are a common cause of groin pain, and often overlooked The pectineus is sandwiched between the psoas...
Treating Sciatic Pain - The Slump Test

Treating Sciatic Pain - The Slump Test

  Assessing Sciatic Pain - Stuart Hinds   Assessing Sciatic Nerve Pain - The Slump Test As a general rule, we apply the Slump test as a follow up to...
Levator Scapulae Trigger Points - Treatment

Levator Scapulae Trigger Points - Treatment

  Treating Levator Scapulae Trigger Points   Ischemic Compression Technique   Almost all neck pain is associated with trigger points, and the levator scapulae is commonly involved Trigger points in levator...
Equine Massage - Myofascial Trigger Points (TMJ)

Equine Massage - Myofascial Trigger Points (TMJ)

  Trigger Points for Horses - Andy Eckley, Equine Therapist      Identifying Trigger Points in Horses Assessing horses for trigger points can be both static and dynamic and in...
Trigger Point Therapy - Cervical Spondylosis

Trigger Point Therapy - Cervical Spondylosis

  Cervical Spondylosis - Common Trigger Point Treatment Protocols   More than 85 percent of people older than age 60 are affected by cervical spondylosis Cervical spondylosis is also known...
CRPS 1 and Frozen Shoulder

CRPS 1 and Frozen Shoulder

  CRPS 1 / RSD - May get worse if left untreated and can become irreversible   Severe cases of Frozen Shoulder Syndrome can be associated with Complex Regional Pain...
Shoulder Impingement or a True Frozen Shoulder?

Shoulder Impingement or a True Frozen Shoulder?

  Shoulder Impingement or a True Frozen Shoulder?     With a frozen shoulder it is very important to keep the shoulder moving as much as possible What you do with...
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