Dr. Dale Richards, a Chiropractor in Ogden Utah, specializes in pain-relief through the elimination of trigger points.
Many times Trigger Points Are the Often Overlooked Causes of Musculoskeletal Pain
A Trigger points is an area of ischemia in muscles, giving rise to pain when the area is moved or palpated. myofascial pain syndromes like headaches, neck and back pain, shoulder pain, sciatica and TMJ are often exacerbated by trigger points. Even the pain of cervical and lumbar disc syndromes is often caused or aggravated by myofascial trigger points.
Their is a golgi tendon reflex which shuts down a muscle if it is under too much pressure to protect it from tearing. If this is reflex is activated intentionally on a muscle that had a trigger point in it, that point might resolve.
Now we know that Trigger Points Should Not Be Treated Over and Over, but Turned Off by Using Specific Neurological Reflexes
It was found that by applying a specific stimulation, vector, and pressure by hand to a muscle with a trigger point in it, the intentional activation of the GTO reflex would cause a tender trigger point to immediately lose its tenderness when pressed. This, in turn, might help to resolve chronic symptoms that were caused by that trigger point. I eventually found the first of a series of reflexes that consistently turns off palpatory pain.
If the reflex is correct for the involved point, it will not be tender within a few seconds; it will be gone.
A trigger point will be painful when first pressed; the reflex is then initiated by appropriate stimulation to the muscle. If it’s the correct reflex for that trigger point, within seconds the point will no longer be painful when pressed! Very often, the patient’s symptom associated with that trigger point will clear up as well. Many times the symptoms will improve immediately, and sometimes it will resolve after several treatments. Just as it’s normal for the knee to jerk when the patellar tendon is tapped, it’s normal for a T.P. to resolve immediately when the proper reflex is stimulated.
Pain Neutralization Technique (P.N.T.) is not similar to any previous technique for treating trigger points, e.g. ischemic compression or strain counterstrain. The aim here is not to treat a trigger point but to erase it. if the reflex is correct, then the tender area will be gone in just a few seconds. This treatment is not painful; it eliminates the pain. Dr Richards is the only Chiropractor in Ogden Utah who uses this technique successfully.
Dr. Richards says,”As I apply this procedure to many patients with pain, I am continually surprised to find the majority of trigger points would relax and disappear within seconds of correctly applying this or one of the other Pain Neutralization Techniques. If the direction or pressure of application wasn’t right, there might only be a 50 percent improvement; when I changed the application, the improvement would often get to be 100 percent”.
The treatment is effective in the large majority of cases for instantly reducing or eliminating trigger points; but, in some cases, the patient’s symptom does not resolve. Of course, not all pain is due to trigger points and should be taken seriously if it does not resolve in a timely manner.
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