Who is this book written for?

This book is written for people who have pain, practitioners who treat those in pain, and students of medicine and other healing arts.

This book is for people who care about their bodies, and are willing to participate in their healing, or maintaining their body through old age.

This book teaches about myofascial trigger points (muscle knots) and their pain patterns. Trigger points in muscles and fascia are part of almost every pain condition--no matter whether the diagnosis is migraine, tension headache, repetitive strain injury, torn rotator cuff, spinal stenosis, facet syndrome, sciatica, or plantar fascitis. Trigger points cause myofascial pain. In addition to pain, these trigger points also cause numbness, tingling, burning, and cramping symptoms. Learn how to treat the trigger points that are involved in causing your pain pattern, and you can lessen and treat your own pain. Hopefully you will be less dependent on pain medications. Chronic pain from old sports injuries can also often be improved using the techniques described in this book. Learn how to prepare your body before activity, and then treat yourself afterwards. Ice, braces, and OTC meds are not the only answer for the aging athlete.

This book reveals the medical information that will allow people to understand how knots in their muscles cause a major part of their pain, and then how to lessen or stop this pain. Illustrations teach pain patterns and treatment. This understanding will make it possible for people to control their pain in a different way. No longer will they be dependent soley on medication.

Practitioners who will find this book useful include medical physicians, chiropractors, naturopaths, myotherapists, massage therapists, and rolfers.

Students attending schools that teach about treating pain patients will find the information in this book extremely useful.

The stretching and massage techniques illustrated and described in this book have been very helpful for many people with fibromyalgia. Much of the pain of fibromyalgia is myofascial pain from trigger points in muscle and fascia.

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