THE TRIGGER POINT THERAPY WORKBOOK: YOUR SELF-TREATMENT GUIDE FOR PAIN RELIEF, SECOND EDITION
The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
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David A. Lessnau
on August 8th, 2010
Review by David A. Lessnau for The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
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I was really worried that this book might have been a standard new-age, make-a-buck, quack title. Thank goodness that turned out to be a groundless worry. This is an excellent book (with medical references) that does a very good job of helping you get rid of pain. I had hurt my lower back by performing the arduous task of putting on my underwear. The doctors and physical therapist couldn’t really come up with a reason for it. After a month, it still wasn’t getting any better. Searching the web gave me references to this book. Within three days of reading it and poking around in my UPPER (not LOWER) back, my thighs, and my abdomen, the pain has faded to just a reminder. I’m still not able to bend and reach like I used to. But, I’m exercising and stretching again, so hopefully that’ll change. Best of all, it no longer hurts just to SIT (or lie down or stand, for that matter). After showing my wife that her lower body has just about every active trigger point known, she’s also reading the book and working on her points. Hopefully, her pain will reduce in a couple of days, too.The only reason I gave this book four stars instead of five is that it’s kind of hard to find and reference ALL the trigger points associated with a specfic pain FOR THE FIRST TIME. The book does have a diagram for pain locations at the start of each chapter. But, in many cases, the pain will be caused by multiple trigger points in multiple body locations. It takes quite a bit of paging through the book to figure out what you’re supposed to do. Once you figure it out, though, the book is great. Of course, in the author’s defense, I can’t come up with a better organization method outside of having some kind of software with an anatomical display using hyperlinks.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book if you suffer from any kind of chronic pain. Even if your doctor has pronounced judgement that he/she knows what’s causing things, try this book. As the author says, trigger point therapy should be the first course of treatment: it’s easy and cheap.
birdie
on August 8th, 2010
Review by birdie for The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
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After a full year of severe dysfunction of my right hand, arm, and particularly my right thumb THE TRIGGER POINT THERAPY WORKBOOK revealed to me the astonishing fact that most of my trouble was being caused by ‘trigger points’ in the scalene muscles of my neck and also in the area above my clavicle. What could I do about it? Simply massage them away – within half an hour of hitting the correct locations my right thumb (and hand and arm) seemed to heal by about 60%! The rest of the healing took maybe 3 more weeks of finding these things and methodically deactivating them.
Other muscles besides the scalene were involved and Clair Davies had them all referenced in the back of the book under “thumb”. This is the case for any body part you may need help with, it is all very accessible and easy to find. Needless to say, this book was a miracle in my life – providing a simple solution to a debilitating problem that seemingly did not HAVE any solution (no doctor, acupuncturist, or even most up-to-date-book on repetitive strain injuries seemed to hit upon this stunning information). I went from abject misery to basically playing this strange video game of hunting out and zapping away all these trigger points hidden in my muscles.
I found this book fairly late in the healing process, and so it’s important to note that another book, IT’S NOT CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME! helped me immensely with all of the problems I had that did NOT include trigger points – I would even say that my left side (arm, hand) had healed already by studying what I found in that book alone. But the trigger points were the missing piece.
I want to thank the reviewer who suggested getting the book spiral-bound at kinko’s so it will lie flat and xeroxing the cover so you can pass it out to everyone you know without lending it (I gave my first copy away but discovered I need the book on an ongoing basis).
I discovered that the book actually has its own website, which you can find by searching ‘trigger points’ on google. I suggest reading ALL about the book there yourself, and if you think it might help you ordering from amazon because it is cheaper. Even once you have the book, the website makes the info. very accessible.
At a certain point, I started to dot the hard-to-find trigger points on my skin with a marker. It may look bizarre but they can be hard to keep track of and you want to get all of them.
DON’T OVERLOOK THE SECTION ON PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION, even if massaging trigger points seems to be enough to cure you.
The scalene trigger points can be HARD to find. At first I found them easily, but months later my symptoms came back and after 2 weeks of despair I found a terrible trigger point that was almost completely hidden in the scalene, I could only reach it after hitting the muscle at a particular angle.
Underline as you go along! Here and there he mentions areas of referred pain that are NOT depicted in the illustration.
Very relevant pages I xeroxed and taped to the wall.
Again, SOME aspects of Repetitive Strain Injury are not brought about by trigger points, so everyone w/computer related injuries needs to look at IT’S NOT CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME! by Suparna Damany and Jack Bellis and also the books by Emil Pascarelli. If you have REAL nerve damage, trigger point therapy may ease some of your discomfort but it won’t resolve the problem.
Those with back problems might want to look into John Sarno’s MINDBODY PRESCRIPTION. Maybe even those w/out back problems – however this recommendation is based on other people’s experiences not my own.
Other books I used: Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (by Sharon Butler & also her online book about DeQuervain’s of the thumb), Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, Tendon & Ligament Healing, Free Your Breath Free Your Life…and the PBS program Priscilla’s Yoga Stretches (not a book, it is apparently shown in many parts of the US). Some of these I got from the library, but being that my HANDS were at stake I would have just put them all on a credit card if I had had no other choice. I also recommend spending time between the shelves of Barnes & Noble.
If you happen to live in Los Angeles, Janet Travell & David Simon’s medical volumes, upon which Clair Davies’ work is based, are available at the Central Library (one reference set, and one that you can actually check out). Don’t know about other major cities – but they’re beautiful, exquisite books and amazingly clear.
Finally, I am just now looking into Bonnie Prudden’s books particularly ‘MYOTHERAPY’ from 1984- and I am surprised because while they are missing key components of The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook they offer insights about trigger points that I have not found in other places. She quotes Janet Travell often, and there is great spirit in her book.
There is no way to express my gratitude to Clair Davies, et al, for making this info. available to the world. I am literally better off knowing about trigger points than I would be had I won a million dollars.
It’s a crime that this info has been around for over a quarter of a century & the medical world has not yet grabbed a hold of it.
Good luck everyone!
January 8th, 2006 update: After all that I now have something more to add: I did actually have more trouble getting over a recent relapse than I would have expected, and I have been greatly helped by a massage therapist who is actually very familiar with trigger point therapy. In addition to trigger points, he has been helping me with other forms of massage therapy & guidance on how to rehabilitate my muscles without overdoing it. After being so injured for a long time it is great to have professional guidance in conjunction with self-applied trigger point therapy. He knew about this book & appreciated how well-informed I was – unlike certain doctors I have spoken with who seemed to take offense at my attempt to do my own research! In summary: use this book and if necessary, try to find a great massage therapist as well.
Janet L. Ollman
on August 8th, 2010
Review by Janet L. Ollman for The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
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Clair Davies is really on to something here. I deal with chronic pain in my massage therapy practice daily. I’ve been able to help my clients, using Clair’s methods, to rid themselves of pain they’ve dealt with for years. Clair presents his material in an easy to read, practical format–and the pictures are excellent. Anyone–professional and lay person alike–can benefit from this book. In fact, I recommend this book to my clients. I’m always encouraging them to try to help themselves during the time between our sessions. If you’ve got pain or help others deal with their pain, get this book. You won’t be sorry.
A. Friese
on August 8th, 2010
Review by A. Friese for The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
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This book is a godsend. Clair Davies’ book starts by describing the author’s personal journey as a person in pain who discovered the power of self-applied trigger point therapy. The book then goes on to detail the basics of trigger point science and methods of self-treatment. Each body region contains muscle-by-muscle descriptions of trigger point locations, causes, referred pain patterns, and specific self-treatment techniques with fingers, thumbs, tennis balls or other hand-held “tools”. Two populations will benefit. The first are professionals dealing with myofascial pain. Mr. Davies’ book has neatly summarized many of the essentials contained in the bar-setting but often intimidating 2-volume “bibles” of trigger point therapy by Janet Travell and David Simons, which will make many more practitioners comfortable with the idea of searching for and treating trigger points with manual techniques.More important than information for clinicians is the help and hope this book offers to suffering patients. The book’s focus is on self-treatment, which is not only *possible*, but is in fact *extremely* effective, and often downright necessary in this day and age: healthcare costs are forever rising, insurance coverage for physical therapy grows progressively more restrictive, massage therapists are often costly and the majority of the time, not covered by insurance, and, money factors aside, pain does not always present itself when professional treatment is readily available. Even with the *best* professional treatment, myofascial conditions are highly recurrent and knowing how to deal with these recurrences empowers patients and thereby reduces fear and apprehension.With information referenced from current and highly reputable sources, The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook has not only my highest recommendation, but also the endorsement of many, many well-known names in the field of myofascial pain, including one of its pioneers, Dr. David Simons.
Anita Villanueva
on August 8th, 2010
Review by Anita Villanueva for The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
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If you suffer from mysterious and FRUSTRATING chronic musculoskeletal pain and are at your wit’s end (like I was), ORDER THIS BOOK NOW. This book SAVED ME by helping put an end to about 4 months of “unexplained” pain in my thighs, knees, buttocks and hips. I had spent hundreds of $$ getting x-rays, MRI’s, bone scans, and seeing numerous physicians as well as a physical therapist, chiropractor, and a naturopath. None had a clear expanation of what was causing me so much pain for such a long time. I was prescribed massive doses of ibuprofen (which did nothing but ruin my stomach) as well as Valium, Flexeril, Elavil, and finally Prozac. I tried various supplements including potassium, magnesium and B vitamins, but they didn’t seem to do anything. I was completely unable to exercise as it made the pain much worse..at times I was unable to walk a couple blocks. I finally got this book last week and realized that little “knots” in my muscles were the source of all this grief. No wonder nothing else (physical therapy, diet, medication) worked! With the book I figured out that I had at about ~10 trigger points in my buttocks/thighs, some which were EXTREMELY painful to massage. Since it was so painful i was a bit skeptical at first but I stuck with it. I began to massage with a tennis ball several times a day. Some trigger points responded immedately after a massage and others took several days, but after a while the aching pains in my legs have subsided! I couldn’t believe that something so SIMPLE (something I could do myself) could end such a debilitating problem that numerous doctors & specialists couldn’t figure out. Combined with acupuncture and craniosacral therapy & occasional professional deep-tissue massage I would say my pain is 99% gone. I am so glad I discovered this book…I never thought I would find the explanation (and the solution!) for all this pain!! I can now look forward to returning to a normal, pain-free life! Thanks so much to Clair Davies and others who contributed to making this book!!
P.S. I have just started reading through ALL the sections of this book (not just the ones for leg pain) since trigger point massage seems to help with all sorts of pain (i.e. carpal tunnel syndrome, back pain, etc). So from now on I will consult this book FIRST before seeking a doctor or some medication for any type of pain. My only regret is that I didn’t buy this book sooner!!