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I found it hard to find put any information with out reading everything thing. This book is detailed. There aren't any summaries, or steps at a glance, which makes it very difficult to use in the limited free time I have after work. Which was very discouraging when I first cracked it open. I was expecting a workbook but it much more like a text book. Its not an entirely bad book, it is very informative and detailed. However if you are time limited, not interested in reading a lot or impatient, this is most likely not what you are looking for.
My massage therapist recommended this book, performed a few manipulations of these trigger points and she felt relief for the first time in years. My 78 year old mother in law had seen cardiologists, gastroenterologists, internists, pt, rheumatologists and more to resolve a non-cardiac chest pain that debilitated her when she drove or rode in a vehicle. She would have to stop every 45 minutes or so and her life was severely impacted. It is worth the effort; she read the book cover to cover and it changed her life. Thank you.
This was about 3.5 yrs ago and it's never returned. After spending thousands of dollars with a top-notch sports therapist for a local pro-baseball team in my town to correct the issue to no avail, getting those "socks" that are supposed to help with this issue, a sports doctor, my chiropractor, massage therapist, pain meds, nothing seemed to help.I figured, why not spend another $15. After over a year of dealing with excruciating plantar fascitis and just being so discouraged, one evening I was surfing the internet and came across Davies book on someone's website. Of course, now I know the things I need to do to keep it from returning.When my kids experience various pains, I go to the book to find out how to get to the root cause and eliminate what's causing it - help them stretch out and apply trigger point therapy. When I got the book, I found the section that deals with plantar fascitis and began doing what it said, basically apply pressure to certain areas of my calves so it could release those areas. It was pretty painful to do this, but doing this that very first time, I began to feel a bit of "release" of the pain.For the next few days, I continued what the book said to do and by the time I was finished, the pain was all gone. This, used in conjunction with chiropractice treatment, massage therapy is great.I loved this book so much I bought a half dozen and have given all but 1 of the books to friends to use to help them in dealing with pains in their body. Other than the Bible, I've never purchased that many copies of a book for distribution to others.
I feel I've barely scratched the surface of this book's potential.Many troubles, aches and pains we have are quite often the result of stressed trigger points in our body. I've found the book very enlightening. I ordered this book along with a TheraCane about a month ago. Headaches, toothaches, issues with our range of movement, even things like sickness or impaired vision can be helped by alleviating stressed trigger points. It shows you exact points of tension on lots of different muscle groups. If you have a pain, it's likely outlined to some extent in this book. I'm looking forward to spending more time with this book and learning more about the muscles and how to heal them.The book does a good job of clearly outlining different muscles groups associated with particular aches and pains, and shows the exact points to apply massage or pressure, even giving important advice on HOW to massage. For instance, it's a good idea to support your hands while massaging to avoid stressing them, or to use tools whenever possible to prevent excess strain.Highly recommended to anyone in pain wanting to alleviate it and to learn how to prevent it.
Just to find out that some of my back-of-head pain was coming from muscles in the front or side of the neck was huge. This book has been so helpful for dealing with FMS and chronic myofascial pain. Great for working out the remnants of whiplash. At first, I worked on trigger points with it open in front of me all the time. Now, I don't need to look at the diagrams. It has been frustrating trying to find a practitioner that really knows how to do this, but after a year of trying different ones that claimed to, I finally did. Thanks to the book, I can work on myself between professional treatments.
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