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As I mentioned earlier in the post, I also want to share another incredible mobility training technique with you. Not only will you be able to work into your muscles like you do with a trigger point ball, but you’ll also be able to help your joints to move freely. Like trigger point therapy, you’ll just use it on “problem” areas of your body. It’s a technique called voodoo flossing, and I’ve created a complete guide on how to voodoo floss. Some practitioners use dry needling to treat trigger points in the muscles. There are also various trigger point tools available that you may have even used at your local gym, which we’ll get to shortly. You may also have heard of massage guns, which work via a technique called percussive therapy. What’s more, is that most of them are cheap yet will provide benefits much greater than their initial costs. This is because you don't want to use a spiky massage ball when you should you have used a smooth foam massage ball, although they are similar and have mostly the same benefits, in some cases (with specific massage ball exercises such as the spine) using a spiky ball could do more damage than anything else. For instance, I have found rolling my quads or calves down the centre has unveiled tender spots I never knew I had.

Generally speaking, smaller massage balls are best for massaging small areas of the body, such as the hands, the soles of the feet, the forearms, and the calves. The peanut massage ball is most commonly known for its use in rolling down the spine and not much else.This is the advantage of using a massage ball over a foam roller has. It can hit smaller trigger points than a foam roller. This is where trigger points really get interesting. In addition to minor aches and pains, muscle pain often causes unusual symptoms in strange locations. For instance, many people diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome are actually experiencing pain caused by an armpit muscle (subscapularis). 44 Seriously. I’m not making that up. Jan Campbell, retired French language teacher, Palm Springs, recovered easily from several months of hip pain Every one of those points is the tip of an iceberg. The devil is in the details, and that’s why there’s a very large book about them behind the paywall. But this summary should help give you a better sense of whether or not you want to learn more from this source.

Its small size makes the lacrosse ball ideal for locating and releasing trigger points in hard-to-reach areas.

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Trigger Point Therapy Workshops [PRO] [PATIENT] — A small trigger point workshop provider, for both professionals and patients, notable mainly because the founder is Amber Davies, NCTMB, daughter of Clair Davies and author of The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook — a popular primer on this topic (see my review). A trigger point is a spot that is sensitive to pressure, mainly in muscle tissue, and often associated with aching and stiffness. 12 13 Almost everyone gets these spots, like pimples, but some people get more of them, and more painful ones, and no one really knows what they are. They have had many names over the decades, 14 but myofascial triggerpoint ( TrP) is the trendiest and most widely accepted label in the last 20 years. Commenting on two fascinating 2008 research papers ( Chen and Shah), Dr. David Simons wrote, “Currently, consideration of the possibility of a myofascial trigger point component of the pain complaint is commonly not effectively included in the differential diagnosis and therefore is missed cold turkey, which can be very expensive for the health care system (expensive examinations looking for a phantom diagnosis) and disastrous to the patient (wrong diagnosis, wrong treatment).” Got a bizarre pain that just flared up one day? Sure, it might be something scary or rare. But in many cases it’s probably just a trigger point — about as serious as banging your funny bone. But it can feel worrisome. Trigger points have many strange “features” and behaviours, and can easily be confused with many other common undiagnosed causes of pain in general 57 and muscle pain in particular. There are several common kinds of muscle pain, or pains that can seem like it: arthritis, medication side effects, exercise soreness, muscle tears, and the profound body aching caused by an infection like COVID-19. 58 The only hope of telling these things apart is a good working knowledge.

According to one study, using a massage ball may also help prevent post-workout muscle fatigue and pain. What to Look for When Purchasing a Massage Ball The premise of a massage ball is simple. Ultimately, it is a way to remove knots in the muscles which may cause your body to feel tight and uncomfortable. Face into the wall, with your arm by your side, and roll the ball around to hit the spot. You can also do this on the floor, and extend your arm out in front of you for a more aggressive version. As I mentioned with the previous exercise, the added weight whilst lying down will add extra intensity.Muscle just hurts sometimes. Trigger points can cause pain directly. Trigger points are a “natural” part of muscle tissue. 23 Just as almost everyone gets some pimples, sooner or later almost everyone gets muscle knots — and then you have some pain with no other explanation or issue. Many years later that organization still has only a few dozen certified therapists in its directory, and yet it remains one of the few and largest directories of its kind. If you live in a big city, there’s a fair to middlin’ chance that you can find one of those therapists. But certification of trigger point therapists is generally an amateurish and fragmented mess, with many businesses and organizations competing to be the standard. (Even this document is part of the mess: a sanity-inducing part of the mess, hopefully, but nevertheless a good example of how everyone and their dog is out there trying to provide “the best” information/training/therapy in this field.)