Manual Trigger Point Therapy

Treating pain where it originates!

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Manual trigger point therapy combines mechanical, reflex, biochemical, energetic, functional, cognitive-emotional, and behaviorally effective phenomena. As such, it influences not only peripheral nociceptive pain, but also intervenes in the body’s pain-processing and transmission mechanisms.

Here you will learn:

• a systematic, manual-therapeutic approach to recognize and deactivate the potential of trigger points to cause pain and dysfunction
• how to treat the accompanying fascial disorders
• and how to prevent recurrences.

Key Features:

• Clinical background of myofascial pain and dysfunction
• Muscles, trigger points, and pain patterns at a glance
• Neuromuscular entrapments shown in detail
• Screening tests und pain guides for all common clinical patterns
• Manual treatment of trigger points and fasciae

»Manual Trigger Point Therapy« is your one-stop, comprehensive introduction to this fascinating, proven technique.

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