Back Pain
Back Pain is usually attributed to “structural” factors such as:
But these kinds of problems are amazingly minor factors in back pain (as they are everywhere else). In fact, most acute and chronic back pain is probably caused by myofascial trigger points — the humble muscle knot.
Trigger point pain can be as nasty as any injury, and more persistent than most. It can be as painful as a muscle strain or a joint sprain, and more persistent.
Of course there are many possible causes of back pain, and some cases of back pain have nothing to do with trigger points — at least at first. But regardless of how back pain begins, trigger points routinely become a factor as time passes.
Trigger points are tiny spasms: a patch of clenched, exhausted, and highly irritable muscle tissue and they are treatable with certain massage techniques that we use here at Therapeutika.
- pinched nerves
- herniated disks
- arthritic degeneration
But these kinds of problems are amazingly minor factors in back pain (as they are everywhere else). In fact, most acute and chronic back pain is probably caused by myofascial trigger points — the humble muscle knot.
Trigger point pain can be as nasty as any injury, and more persistent than most. It can be as painful as a muscle strain or a joint sprain, and more persistent.
Of course there are many possible causes of back pain, and some cases of back pain have nothing to do with trigger points — at least at first. But regardless of how back pain begins, trigger points routinely become a factor as time passes.
Trigger points are tiny spasms: a patch of clenched, exhausted, and highly irritable muscle tissue and they are treatable with certain massage techniques that we use here at Therapeutika.
