Trigger Point Therapy Workbook

[ronr]

It looks like a great deal of the book is now on-line.

It shows the trigger points online, but does not talk you through how to treat those points without buying the book.

http://www.triggerpointbook.com/index.html

[Country_guy]

Figures, anything for money. I bought a book similar to this one, and it did nothing for me. I guess they need money and..............

Before I get my blood pressure to far up, I'm going to now.

[tojo]

I will have to double check but I believe this is the same book that came with my Back Knobber. It is full of pix and diagrams. It explains way more than I can understand about trigger points than I can comprehend. It shows you how to get to them using different objects and your hands. As far as i can tell this is gonna be the most complete comprehensive book that will ever be put out on TRPs. There is even a long intro about the author and how he got to where he is now.

[rwilli]

   tojo.......it probably is, I see the words....theracane and another that are from the back knobber site. I am a firm believer in TRP's but they say push for a couple of days and they will go away.........BS. I have been pushing on mine for many years now. Get them to release and the next day they are back.
  My whole muscle will get as hard as a rock. I'm talking about the mastoid and a couple of others in the neck. I can spend an hour getting it to soften up, then turn my head and it will be as hard as a rock again.
  It took many years to get down to the TRP's but then they will not go away, for longer than a day. I have one in my right forearm, that is like a rock and have been workink on it for 10+ years and still have not been ablr to get to the bottom of it. I can get a few layers to melt away but they will come back.
   I can think of 40+ of them that I have been obsessed with and have maybe gotten rid if 2-3. They have it right but they are much harder to actually get rid of, than they say. Or mine are worse than they say.
   I have got hard knots in the right side of my neck now. They feel just like what the DR's said were swollen glands 50+ years ago. Even at 14-15 I didn't believe them. But maybe I now have the right side to the point it was at 15.   . I hope I live long enough.         Ron

[db]

I think the book is good but the treatments are not enough for those with fibromyalgia.  However, I try to use it as a guide for my accupuncture treatment.  Still haven't gotten rid of the trigger points but don't know what else to do.  I guess I'm just stubborn  or crazy  to keep on trying.  Don't know if there are any better options out there.

db