Myofascial Pain Syndrome Support Group
Myofascial Pain Syndrome (or MPS) is a term used to describe one of the conditions characterized by chronic pain. It is associated with and caused by "trigger points" (TrPs), sensitive and painful areas between the muscle and fascia. The symptoms can range from referred pain through myofascial trigger points to specific pains in other areas of the body. It may be related...
I am always researching new ways to help alleviate my pain, I have considered purchasing a nook book specific to myofascial pain, some are inexpensive, some are quite expensive.
Anyone have opinion as to the best book to buy ? Almost all my pain is left Pec, and left sided Trap.
Ty !
Anyone have opinion as to the best book to buy ? Almost all my pain is left Pec, and left sided Trap.
Ty !
I bet we did and I'm being too lazy to look back, but if not it should be added as Devin Starlanyl is 'the' medical expert on my fibromyalgia and myofascial pain and dysfunction.
She has a website too: http://homepages.sover.net/~devstar/
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Anyway, the real reason I pulled up this post is to bump it up for our newbies - it contains lots of good suggestions and well worth a reread for the 'oldies' (hmm, that doesn't work so well, we could do with something not so emotive...possibly 'veterans'?!!)
www.triggerpoints.net
...because it's got so much good information about individual muscles and referral patterns (although it's worth noting that Devin Starlynal has stopped putting a 'dot' for the trigger point, saying (something like) we should feel across the whole muscle because the trigger point(s) can be anywhere and everywhere in the muscle.