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Help Yourself, I challenge you, for your benifit because it`s so easy to give up on your pains (when others have tried to help). Just read the introduction and faith will begin to grow.No-one knows your pain like you do, you will learn where it is coming from and how to stop it, then if it returns you will know how to stop it before it becomes unbearable again. This book will teach you what other professionals don`t know (The Guys You`ve Been To Already) I have already purchased another book for another colleague and he is using these methods in his practice, with success, pain relief and healing is what you crave and you`ll find it in this book, you will learn fantastic health maintenance with simple methods from your own hands.regards Peter Ietto Remedial Massage and Bowen Therapist from Bendigo, Australia The Trigger Point Self Care Workbook by the Pressure Positive Company
I bought this book last summer (2009), and it has changed my life. Currently I use the techniques every day that I work consistently on the computer, and rarely when I am on vacation or have light computer days. I also set up my workstation for ergonomics and refused to type at workstations with improper equipment. I went to the doctor and they said I would have to wait till it got worse before they would talk options. I was tired of making excuses for myself. I had constant arm pain and back throbbing. I was unable to type on the computer without a brace--this had been going on for three years. It is more maintenance however, and does not take more than 10 minutes.
I could not read books I had to hold, carry bags while shopping, or drive long distances. After pouring over the book, and beginning with the area that hurt the most, I can honestly say that after 2 months of treating myself 3 times a day, I stopped using the brace for good. Before I got this book and started dedicating time every day to my trigger points, I was becoming depressed that I would have to live with this chronic pain for the rest of my life. If you are willing to put in time every day, you will see results.
When I have some across a good deal of chronic pain sufferers, this book is my first recommendation to them. Trigger points may not be the problem for you, but I have had clients that have tried everything else, and are worried they will be in pain forever, and for many of them this has been a godsend in terms of pain relief. She had been able to sleep through the night, and felt much less pain. sometimes this pain has gotten to the point where doctors think that the pain is mental. Keep looking for a way out, chronic pain sufferers. It was frustrating as a deep tissue massage therapist to not be able to help her or point her even in the right direction. Many of the techniques helped, but never to the point where she felt normal.
Finally I came across trigger point therapy. We did a afternoon of work together, and I left her with this book and she called me up the next day and was overjoyed. As a bodyworker, I have recommended this book more than any other to clients. She still does the daily massage treatments, and stretches and has to watch her work area set up, but she is pretty well pain-free today, in large part to the techniques she learned from this book.This book has been a priceless gift for my family. Since then I have come across a handful of clients with chronic untreatable pain, constant migraines, chronic leg and back pain, tmj etc. It maybe true in some cases, but it seems that is the conclusion when doctors don't know what to do, and don't have other tools at their disposal. I would recommend for self care having on hand 2 tennis balls and a racket ball, and the knobble. Helpful Tools:The Knobble II by the Pressure Positive Company, Sapphire Blue is a great tool- and portable and easy to use.
About two years ago my mother, who has always been very active, started having knee pain and lower back pain, she did yoga, and went to doctors, she did chiropractic, acupuncture and went to specialists, no one could make her pain go away. This is not always the solution, or the reason for the pain in everyone, however it is something to explore. The most important thing was she felt the best she had felt in a year,she felt hope- that maybe there was a solution, after a year of undiagnosable or treatable pain, that there was a way out. The self trigger point massage, some stretches and a rearrangement of her workspace gave her life back to her in 3 weeks. When you have had pain, and are troubleshooting a solution, this is a very good resource. For those who want more the Thera Cane Massager or Body Back Buddy and travel size version of THE STICK MARATHON STICK BODY MUSCLE MASSAGER SG-2000 are helpful as well.word to the wise: Remember to ice after treatment- ALWAYS.
I take it on overseas trips, even though it is a danged heavy book. I have never written a review before, never wanted to; but this book is so good, so important, and I just wanted to encourage anyone out there at all interested in avoiding surgery and make themselves feel better, to just buy it. I started with a book on Acupressure, (easier to read, but nowhere near as comprehensive)I found this book somehow and it is now dogeared from use. Horrible neck aches, chronic hip pain, small of the back, you name it, I've been able to fix it. I'm actually online to get a copy for my son right now.
When this happens,I just repeat the process.Later I started working out and part of my program consisted of going on a diet. Significantly more painful than normal. However, it does periodically come back 2-3 times a year. This was a cheap book and reviews were good, so I thought to myself, what the heck.
W/in a week all gone. I keep thinking if this headache kept hanging around I would have eventually headed to the Dr. I could actually feel the muscle knotting up right under my shoulder blade and while my pain was not debilitating, it was distracting and would sometimes interrupt my sleep. Within a week, I started getting a nasty headache at the base of my skull. Because of this, I pulled this book of the shelf and re-read the information on my problem, and I saw the base of the skull was a location for referred pain.
(I used a lacrosse ball against a wall) W/in 5 days they were almost gone. (Seems to be either stress related or due to my job sitting at a desk all day). The problem was this headache kept coming back and hanging around for about three weeks. I would have wasted time and money on something easily solved by self-massage.
I bought this book because I saw the reviews on Amazon and I was having recurring pain in my shoulder. I could not believe it. I started aggressive treatment on it and w/in 2 days the headaches were drastically reduced. Now to be honest, I think it was pure luck that I found out that there was a relationship between my headache and my shoulder pain but sometimes you make your own luck. I also noticed that during my workouts I started to have pain in my shoulder again. Now I don't think it this book is the be-all and end-all to pain, but in life you have to take chances. I also bought the back buddy and followed instructions for working on the trigger points along the shoulder blade and the pain eventually went away.
Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. Initially, I thought it was due to the diet (low carb). I started to massage my shoulder again with the back buddy and boy was it painful. and he would have found out squat. In my case this book is worth the read and I am glad it is on my bookshelf.
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