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 - The Answer!This book is the answer to pain. I was able to find the sources of my neck, head, chest and foot pains. The exercises to massage the corresponding trigger points are easy and highly effective. With many of them I feel immediate relief! If I was a millionaire I'd buy a copy of this book for every person I run into that complains of pain. Rating: - After Everything Else Has FailedThis is a tremendous resource for people in pain. After having tried many natural remedies for my shoulder pain, this program is the best. Glucosamine while it helped, did not totally alleviate the pain. Magnet therapy helped for awhile, but eventually made the pain worse. Chiropractic treatments, which used trigger point therapy worked for a time, but then my knots would return and cause pain. I didn't know the importance of at least six times a day massaging your central trigger points until the knots are gone. "The Trigger Point Therapy Wookbook" has excellent information on the muscles. It also has excellent charts which help you locate specific trigger points (knots in your muscles) which cause pain. It tells you how to message those painful areas to get rid of the knots in your muscles. While the information is thorough, it is written for the lay person in an understandable way. You can have central trigger points, which are located in the belly of the muscle that hurts. You can also have satellite trigger points in the pain referral zone of another muscle and attachment trigger points in your tendons where your muscles connect to your bones. While your trigger points will never be on opposite sides of your body, they can travel the length of one side of the body. Satellite and attachemnt trigger points are secondary trigger points. Even though they can be very painful, especially attachment trigger points, they can right themselves. Not so with central trigger points. You can get the secondary trigger points out, but not deal with the pain unless you deal with the central trigger points. I highly recommend a Thera Cane, which is like having very long, totally mobile arms, which enable you to message hard to reach trigger points. While the book and Thera Cane may seem expensive, they are much cheaper than repeated Chiropractic visits. Also, working on your posutre is important in permanent pain relief. "The New Rules of Posture" is the best book I've found on the subject. For people with shoulder pain, I recommend the stretches in the book, "Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff." You will want to hold off on the stretches until you have first dealth with you trigger points and alleviated the pain. I very much like the authors outlook on health. The visualization exercises found at the boo's end to relax you muscles are excllent. As do many other readers, I higlhly recommend this excellent book. Rating: - The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second EditionThis book has great illustrations and explanations. It covers a very wide range of problems and what and where to work on them. I am very glad I purchased it. Rating: - Pain FreeWell, ive had numbness in my hand that ran up my forearm behind my back and up my neck into my eye. I was handicaped and as an artist couldnt even draw like I used to. Once I started following the trigger points simple instructions with the guide of the illustrations, I found and deactivated over 5 trigger points. Now I can safely say I AM PAIN FREE! Rating:  - Too Pedantic - not user friendlyThis was toooo esoteric - Some of it even contradictory. The author(s) were very informative and knowledgeable, but did not compile this writing in a way that was very usable for the average lay person. I read all of the introductory pages and then referred to different sections. I found it so cumbersome to try and apply that I finally reverted back to my favorite acupressure book, "Acupresssure's Potent Points" by Michael Reed Gach. That I give 5 stars. In association with Amazon.com | |