Back, Neck, or Shoulder Pain?

Hello friends,
Hope you and your families are you doing well today. I am blessed and highly favored.

Does your back hurt? Shoulders and neck? Back problems are often misdiagnosed. Your pain may have nothing to do with your spine. There’s a good chance it may be nothing more serious than referred pain from myofascial trigger points (contraction knots) in your back muscles, or even in muscles some distance away. During times of physical or emotional stress, the points cause muscles to spasm.

Pain in your low back, for example, can be referred from trigger points in a number of muscles, such as the gluteus medius in your buttocks. It’s a common mistake to assume that the problem is at the place that hurts. That is called referred pain, where someone has pain in one or more places of the body, but the point of origin of the pain is found in another area of the body.

There is a treatment that I do to help with those types of situations. Trigger point therapy is a massage technique that involves the application of pressure to tender muscle tissue in order to relieve pain and dysfunction in other parts of the body. When it was first introduced in the 1940’s, this therapy was performed by using an injection of saline or procaine (now Novocaine). It was a very painful procedure. Trigger point therapy now can be done by using fingertips, thumb, fist, knuckles, palm heel, forearm, elbow, or knees, to apply pressure for a few seconds to a minute to tender points or knots in various areas of the body. The depth or strength of the pressure depends on you, the client, according to your comfort level. If you want deeper or less pressure, just tell me, and I will adjust accordingly.

The list of conditions that benefit from trigger point therapy include arthritis; carpal tunnel syndrome; chronic pain in the back, neck, and shoulders; headaches and migraines; menstrual cramps; multiple sclerosis; muscle spasms, tension, and weakness; joint pain; postoperative pain; sciatica; temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ); tendinitis; and whiplash injuries.

Psalm 38:2 tells us, “ For Your arrows have sunk into me and stick fast, and Your hand has come down upon me and pressed me sorely.” I say this smiling. See, even God knows about trigger point therapy! It originated from Him.

May your days be blessed, and please remember to setup your appointment for a massage with me today.

Take care and God bless,
Janora Alverson