What is Trigger Point Therapy?
Trigger Point Therapy is a generally accepted form of treatment in physical therapy and massage. Doctors often rely on injections to relieve trigger points, physical therapists are more likely to use the spray and stretch method while massage therapists utilize thumbs, elbows and fingers to effectively alleviate trigger points.
Trigger points are located by touch. Generally, trigger points are located within taut bands of muscle tissue that snaps back when stroked, much like a guitar string. The trigger point is tender when touched and elicits referred pain in a predictable pattern.
A simple definition of a trigger point is that it is a palpable, sensitive localized structure, within soft tissues, which is sending aberrant, noxious, neurological impulses to a different site and which, on pressure, refers symptoms usually involving pain, but with other symptoms possible to this predictable target area. The major locations of these self-perpetuating trigger points are often close to the origins and insertions of muscles.
The release of trigger points will lessen your pain. You will notice less tension in muscles, improved function of muscles, improved posture and flexibility and a correction of faulty mechanics that underlie recurring sports and spinal injuries.
Find out more about Trigger Point Therapy Carlton
To find out more about Trigger Point Therapy Carlton or to enquire about any of our treatments, contact us at the clinic on 0434 584 659 or email us on remedy@melbourneclinicalmasseurs.com.au.
Remedial massage encompasses a variety of techniques and approaches to heal people from pain and anxiety. Melbourne Clinical Masseurs uses trigger point therapy Melbourne to create an integrated treatment plan for each individual client and problem. There are several approaches available for this sort of therapy. The therapist may combine Trigger Point, hard deep pressure and stretching throughout the therapy. It is natural to feel a little soreness throughout the massage. However, to the point where the pressure is too strong and you cannot maintain it.
Massage Therapy
The massage is a methodology of specialised treatments to help, restore, and support the body’s inherent healing and repair systems. When muscles and tendons are injured, impaired, knotted, tight, or immovable, remedial massage rescue people from chronic pain. We cure people with a therapeutic therapy that can be mild or vigorous, deep or superficial. The Trigger Point Therapy or massage therapy to affected body part addresses the entire body. It can trace the discomfort as far back as possible to its source, curing both the cause of the problem and the symptoms.
Trigger Point Therapy at Melbourne Clinical Masseurs
We aim to provide healthcare that energises the mind, invigorates the body and revitalises the human soul to enable every individual better life style and health. The trigger point Therapy corrects body, mind, and spirit.
Our experts at Melbourne Clinical Masseurs recommends drinking plenty of water right after your therapy. This is to flush out toxins out of your body.
Our trigger point therapy Carlton follows the following principles:
- We take human being as a whole organism or single unit as everything is related
- We do believe that shortened muscle tissues can help you heal from pain
- Soft tissues and body parts respond to touch, i.e. feeling
- Limit and eliminate loss due to initial damage or injury
- Limit and eliminate pain linked
- Increase the healing power of affected tissue
- The Trigger Point therapy rehabilitation will help you to work
- Highlight any factor to phase out any repetition
What is Trigger Point Therapy?
Trigger points are palpable structures inside soft tissues of body that elicit sensations. This severe sensation is typically pain-related, but other symptoms are conceivable in affected area.
These trigger points are most commonly seen at the origins or insertions of muscles. Spraying and stretching are two trigger point treatment techniques that physical therapists use. Massage therapists use pressure with their thumbs, elbows, and fingers to specific point to eliminate pain.
How Does Trigger Point Therapy Carlton Work?
Trigger point therapy Carlton or Clinic Neuromuscular Treatment Massage is a more futuristic type of structural bodywork than traditional massage. Using modern neuromuscular approaches, this therapy relieves persistent pain or limits that won’t go away easily.
The treatment seeks to release thick, fibrous tissues locally. Further we also investigate whether the symptom, discomfort, or limitation is due to a structural or postural condition or not. This isn’t a soothing massage merely. Trigger points, myofascial treatment, and PNF stretching are treatment methodology.
Types of Trigger Point Massages
The trigger point Therapy or massage is beneficial for a wide range of real life examples which are as under:
Deep Tissue Massage or Sports Massage
The Trigger Point Massage is best for people who participates in sports or any physical activity. The treatment breaks away the piles of toxins in the muscle tissue that create knots and pain. Indeed, Trigger Point Therapy is a fantastic complement for athletes looking to improve their performance. Sports coach recommends before or after sporting events or training sessions to release tension and for better mental health.
Massage for Relaxation around Specific Points
A soothing massage will put you in a state of pure relaxation. The massage’s long and steady strokes at specific points improves blood flow and relieve muscular tightness.
How Trigger Massage Therapy Works?
Massage treatment boosts circulation by delivering oxygen and other nutrients to the body’s tissues. It lowers pain and stiffness in muscles and joints by relieving muscular tension and soreness, increasing flexibility and mobility, and aiding in the removal of lactic acid and other waste. Touch, stroking, friction, vibration, kneading, percussion, and stretching are all used in the manual technique.
Massage makes soft tissues more malleable, promoting circulation and blood flow and bringing about healing effects: physical and psychological improvements for overall well-being.
Trigger Point Therapy Process
The first part of therapy is palpating location of the trigger point. Therapists put a slow progressive buildup of pressure within the pain tolerance of the patient. Our experts use a zero to five scale on this to be in contact with the patient. It is good idea to maintain the pressure until the tissue changes itself.
Once the trigger point melts away, the therapist will stretch and clear the tissue after treatment with some active range of motion. Further, the therapist will also apply some lengthening of the muscle as well. To define, a Trigger Point is a small part of the muscle that you can feel as a knot. When a person feel that his/her entire muscle knots up, it is a cramp which is most common among sportsmen.
This pain creates a lot pain and cause disruption and creates a big painful response. Sometimes there could only be a couple of knots or one may have a whole bunch of knots, i.e. syndrome. Essentially, the trigger points can develop easily in any muscle belly of human body.
Identify the trigger point could be tricky in some cases and requires expertise and experience. Melbourne Clinical Masseurs is a team of professionals who are known for quality work. Our mission statement is to satisfy every clients by relieving them from pain by applying trigger point therapy.
We believe that trigger point therapy is all about communication. Our trigger point therapists pay attention to details. They listen and talk to client about where an individual feel the source the pain is. For example, when the therapist roll over a trigger point, the client is going to be main source of information.
A therapist can talk to client about what he feel. However, if the client isn’t corresponding with what he feels, then the work can’t be efficient. So, it is critical to communicate with client about his/her ability to update therapist. The update is about any poignant feeling, radiating or on a deep trigger point.
Some common trigger points are really close to the medial border of the scapula. Once client and therapist agrees on that they have found something, the therapist will keep hitting it with some different angels. Therapist will ask about angle, i.e. which one is the most powerful. The real work starts when client update therapist about exact trigger point.
Understanding Physical Pain with Trigger Point Therapy Melbourne
In short, the clinical trigger point therapy Melbourne is all about finding a solution to pain that has plagued a person for years. The main responsibility of a Trigger Point Therapist Melbourne is to serve a translator between patient and their pain. Pain is the first line of communication while pain serves to protect an injured tissue. One should take body pain seriously as it could be life threatening even if you have simple back shoulder or neck pain.
Different Types of Trigger Points
The Infraspinatus Trigger Points
Clients with the Infraspinatus Trigger Points mainly complains about intense and deep pain in the interior shoulder joint. Mostly, patients describe this as deep joint pain which can extend down the front of the arm and into the hand. It may be felt along the inside order of the scapula and the back of the neck as well. They will mention it as inability to reach behind the back, i.e. when they are trying to reach wallet in the behind pocket or trying to fasten the bra. Patient may also complain that they are unable to sleep on either side.
Some factors that may activate and perpetuate trigger points in the infraspinatus include unusual movements. These movements include:
- Reaching behind them to brace themselves from a fall
- A car accident
- Throwing a call
- Hitting the ball with bat
- Playing tennis
Some trigger points we treat at Melbourne Clinical Masseurs includes the following:
- The Supinator Trigger Point
- The Neck and Upper Back Pain Trigger Points
- The Rhomboid Trigger Points
- The Levator Scapulae Trigger Points
- The Sternocleidomastoid Trigger Points
- The Adductor Magnus Trigger Point
- The Wrist Extensor Trigger Points
- The Deltoid Trigger Points
- The Wrist Flexor Trigger Points
- The Gluteus Maximus Trigger Points
- The Vastus Medialis Trigger Points
Contact Us
We are located at Cardigan Street in Carlton, Melbourne and open from Monday to Saturday. We ensure that you will feel improvement in your health condition as you start therapy with us. In case you aren’t satisfy with the ailment you receive, we guarantee a refund for you. We assure greater health results which as we utilise state of the art scientific research for that.
