A massage therapist's guide to understanding, locating and treating myofascial trigger points
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A massage therapist's guide to understanding, locating and treating myofascial trigger points
Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 website 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 9. Non-manual trigger point deactivation methods
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