Chronic Myofascial Pain Myofascial Pain Syndrome Community Group
This group is for people who have Myofascial Pain Syndrome- anyone with a diagnosis of MPS is welcome to join. Our mandate is to provide support, information, and friendship to people with MPS.
7 years ago I was going to the gym everyday training really hard on weights. One day I was doing curcuit training and doing push ups I hurt my tendons. Massaging with a tennis ball and using ice helped but it would never go away. I then switched to running on the treadmill. I ran twice in one day. The next day my quads starting hurting. Then my ankles. It's been years and I can't go for small walks without paying the price. I have these tender spots in my quads. I am getting dry needling with mixed results. The physio guy is saying these tight painful spots in the muscel is causing my pain. I think I have them in the calves causing ankle pain. I think I developed them in the forearms first causing my muscels to be weak and thus hurting the forearm tendons. I seeing my family doc again after going to a reumitologist to check blood work. They said they didn't see anything. I went to a sports medicine clinic. They don't find anything with x ray. Going back to my family doc to check with a neurologist. I have muscel pain and not nerve pain. Sitting at work causes the pain to build it as it feels my quads are tightening all day. I am rolling my legs after work right now with a frozen 2l. I noticed I have found relief by massaging out the tender spots. But I also make it worse sometimes. The pain in my legs is everyday. I might try a standing desk. I also get twitches where the tightness is. I work myself up to almost a panic attack trying to google what it might be.
It sounds like trigger points. You need to find someone who deals with trigger point therapy (myotherapist is a good start) and is willing to go over other areas of your body and check for satellite trigger points that can exacerbate your quads. The ones you have found and dealt with are not necessarily the only ones causing you trouble. A good therapist will know this and go looking. You will be surprised where they can be and they may not be causing you pain in the area they are found but keep triggering your quads. If you don't get these sorted out the trouble will not go away.
The reason you might get more pain is you have overworked the area and bruised the muscle. This may not show on the skin but if the area is tender to touch as well as giving pain then you have. Try not to over do the release just press carefully until you get a 7/10 pain and hold until the pain goes down to a 2/10 then stop.
I would recommend going to a therapist at least 3 times ( as long as they are not causing more pain) before knowing if the person is the right one for you.
Good Luck.