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Trigger Point Therapy, Miracle Tendinitis Cure
Tendons take forever to heal, and after waiting patiently with intolerance all summer for an Achilles tendon to normalize (shoe inserts, regular icing, attention to Joint Connection and fish oil supplements), by accident I stumbled upon what feels like a miracle.
Pulling out Clair Davies’ Triggerpoint Therapy Workbook to look up referred pain sites for thumb soreness for a friend, I stumbled over a triggerpoint for Achilles tendinitis located deep in the middle of the calf. Gouging away at it — hurt like the dickens! — the pain lessened over a period of a few minutes as the triggerpoint eased.
The next day, my long-suffering Achilles tendon was healed.
Now I know that sounds ridiculous and that only the triggerpoint faithful will believe it.
And to the scoffers, let me dig a bit: You *have* triggerpoints. This isn’t some hocus pocus voodoo. They may not be causing you any trouble… or maybe they are. That tendinitis you’ve been anxiously waiting out could possibly be cured today. I’m really not kidding.
Quoting Clair Davies, author of the Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, “The defining symptom of a trigger point is referred pain; that is, trigger points usually send their pain to some other site. This is an extremely misleading phenomenon and is the reason conventional treatments for pain so often fail. It’s a mistake to assume that the problem is at the place that hurts!”
And from the painful conditions list on the triggerpointbook.com website, it’s no joke; from tendinitis, ankle sprains and back pain, to carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, rotator cuff, runner’s knee and sciatica, the list of potential favorable treatments by triggerpoint therapy is long.
Aside from how quick and miraculous this is, the second-best thing? You can perform this on yourself. There’s no need to find a therapist, wait for an appointment and hope the attendant knows his or her stuff, then line up to pay the big bucks. Using your ingenuity and a tool or two, you can hit every part of your body. I’m not saying a visit to a practitioner for an initial treatment wouldn’t be a good idea, quite the opposite. But in many areas, you simply won’t find a knowledgeable therapist, and heck, for the cost of a couple visits, you can stock up on all those choice therapy tools.
In fact, I broke down and sprung for the full triggerpoint therapy kit, and am using it faithfully, daily. This is one outstanding toolkit, highly recommended, and at least until they run out, you can get a set from Elite Fitness for $119. Or you can pick up individual parts of the set at the manufacturer’s site, TPTherapy.com.
Surprise! Rolling my foot over the smaller unit fixed the dropped metatarsal problem I was griping about all summer. Bodyparts aren’t working fully optimally yet, but things are a whole lot better. If you’re aching all over, check this stuff out. And if you aren’t — you lucky dog — check it out anyway and save yourself some future trauma.
Laree Draper
on October 26th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Laree-
Thanks for the post on this subject. I have a knuckle on my index finger (middle knuckle) that has been swollen and painful. I could not bend my finger closed either. I’m blaming overuse injury from computer use. I asked my doctor and he said maybe I have the beginnings of arthritis and suggested cortisone injections. That seemed a bit invasive to me for now. I was always massaging the knuckle directly - but then remembered trigger point therapy. I found a “hot spot” on the muscles of the back of my hand between the index and middle finger. When I pressed and massaged that area, the pain would radiate right to my “bum” knuckle. After about 10 minutes, I was able to bend my finger all the way closed! This one treatment didn’t cure everything right away but I believe if I keep at the therapy on my hand and the muscles lengthened and relaxed, the swelling will eventually go down. My quads and IT bands are also a knotted mess and I recently started using a foam roller for my achy knees. I still curse the day foam was invented as I use it, but my knees feel a lot better afterwards. I’m hoping continued use will lessen the pain during use of the roller and my knees will feel better long-term. I’m supplementing this therapy with fish oil, msm and glucosamine as well.
Thanks again, Mike
on October 27th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Beside Flax Seed Oil I do 2 heaping tsp of MSM a day Also CoQ, at supper. Do work out 3 days a week at 24hr Fitness. Drug free. And will be 72 this Dec.
Thank you Dave….your the BEST!
John
Saint Charles, MO
on January 8th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Mike Cassell Said:”I have a knuckle on my index finger (middle knuckle) that has been swollen and painful”
This is exactly what I have ( I think). Xrays show nothing. It seems to be the tendons running down both sides of the middle knuckle are swollen.
I too work on a computer each day and often at night, so suspected RSI. After a two week break of no computers however it had not changed.
More recently my index fingers have got sore, at the end node points. From blood tests the doctor said it is not arthritis (I hope it is not too).
My whole hands have been getting stiff over the last few months. Stiff to close. Especially in the morning.
Any trigger points that anyone can recommend would be of interest.
I suspect gout, my fingers get swollen but if I take some bicarbonate soda it seems to releive it a bit….????
Thanks
Regards
Mark
on January 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Hey, Mark, could I get you to re-post this in our forum? That’s where the better back-and-forth happens.