Back Pain
Back pain is relatively common, especially amongst people that sit regularly (office workers, students).
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 or sensitive spots in the muscle: a patch of clenched, exhausted, and highly irritable muscle tissue and they are treatable with certain massage techniques that we use here at Therapeutika. If you get too many Trigger Points in your muscles it is called "Myofascial Pain Syndrome". What makes Trigger Points especially interesting is the fact that they can:
Muscles just sometimes hurt from overuse or potentially from a reaction to food or for no apparent reason, but Trigger Points cause pain directly and they can and will often refer pain to other areas of the body. So it might hurt in your lower back especially when you get up from sitting to standing, but the actual Trigger Points causing this issue might be in your abs or hip flexors.
This is one way how Trigger Points can complicate problems, they also make other injuries worse, for example if you have ripped ligaments, the Trigger Points that build up in the muscles from the actual injury will cause added pains, even after the ligaments have healed.
"I think I have a heart attack".... I have heard from some of our clients that they came to the hospital by ambulance due to heart attack symptoms and..... ended up all clear! So what's going on here? It was likely also caused by Trigger Points in the upper back or elsewhere that can create that sharp pain down the arm and chest. Buy if you feel unwell and think you may have a heart attack- GET CHECKED FIRST. If all is well then come to us.
Back Pain is usually attributed to “structural” factors such as:
- 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 or sensitive spots in the muscle: a patch of clenched, exhausted, and highly irritable muscle tissue and they are treatable with certain massage techniques that we use here at Therapeutika. If you get too many Trigger Points in your muscles it is called "Myofascial Pain Syndrome". What makes Trigger Points especially interesting is the fact that they can:
- cause pain problems,
- complicate pain problems, and
- mimic other pain problems.
Muscles just sometimes hurt from overuse or potentially from a reaction to food or for no apparent reason, but Trigger Points cause pain directly and they can and will often refer pain to other areas of the body. So it might hurt in your lower back especially when you get up from sitting to standing, but the actual Trigger Points causing this issue might be in your abs or hip flexors.
This is one way how Trigger Points can complicate problems, they also make other injuries worse, for example if you have ripped ligaments, the Trigger Points that build up in the muscles from the actual injury will cause added pains, even after the ligaments have healed.
"I think I have a heart attack".... I have heard from some of our clients that they came to the hospital by ambulance due to heart attack symptoms and..... ended up all clear! So what's going on here? It was likely also caused by Trigger Points in the upper back or elsewhere that can create that sharp pain down the arm and chest. Buy if you feel unwell and think you may have a heart attack- GET CHECKED FIRST. If all is well then come to us.
