Muscle Spasm & Trigger Points
Do your muscles feel tight especially in the morning? Do you always need to stretch with constant aches and pains in your neck, low back, and hips? Do you feel old and stiff with morning fatigue, sleeping problems and many tender spots? Trigger points are tender sensitive areas that when pressed, stuck, heated, or cooled can be exquisitely painful. You may first discover trigger points when you are surprised by someone pressing a seemingly pain-free area. Trigger pain may also be referred to other areas of the body. Trigger points are common in chronic muscle spasm, myalgia, myositis, fibrositis, strain, and sprain, and other muscle and joint problems.
The Chiropractic Approach
Those suffering from muscle spasm, trigger points, neuromuscular pain and problems, fibromyalgia and similar symptoms are seeing chiropractors in record numbers because they are getting results. For example, in one study 5 men and 18 women, aged 11 to 76 with chronic fatigue syndrome trigger point pain and fibromyalgia who had been suffering from 2 to 35 years began chiropractic care. After a series of spinal adjustments, every patient was able to resume normal activities including full time work and maintained their improvements one year later at follow-up. The authors of the study write: “Improvement in symptoms of 92-100% was achieved in both these syndromes…” In another study 45.9% of those with trigger points, muscle pain and fibromyalgia experienced moderate to great under chiropractic care while anti-depressant medication benefited 36.3% and exercise helped 31.8%. In another study 60% of patients had at least a 50% reduction in pain symptoms with chiropractic. Similar results were found with those suffering from fibromyalgia with tender trigger points, numbness, tingling and pain.
Vertebral Subluxations
Chiropractors locate and
correct vertebral subluxations, a spinal condition that damages nerves. Muscles, fascia, meninges and other
tissues. Subluxations can alter the concentration of enzymes and other chemicals necessary for skeletal muscle
health which may play a role in muscle diseases.
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