Manual Trigger Point Therapy: Recognizing, Understanding, and Treating Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction

By Roland Gautschi

Treating pain where it originates!

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 dysfunctionMuscles, trigger points, and pain patterns at a glanceNeuromuscular entrapments shown in detailScreening tests und pain guides for all common clinical patternsManual 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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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3132202916
• ISBN13: 9783132202917
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 8.0" x 10.8"