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

Manual trigger point therapy combines mechanical, reflex, biochemical, energetic, functional, cognitive-emotional, and behaviorally effective phenomena.\n\nAs 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 dysfunction Muscles, trigger points, and pain patterns at a glance Neuromuscular entrapments shown in detail Screening tests und pain guides for all common clinical patterns Manual treatment of trigger points and fasciae Manual Trigger Point Therapy is your one-stop, comprehensive introduction to this fascinating, proven technique.Watch a special video preview of Manual Trigger Point Therapy here:Additional ISBNs3132202916, 9783132202917Manual Trigger Point Therapy: Recognizing, Understanding, and Treating Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction 1st Edition is written by Roland Gautschi and published by Thieme Medical Publishers. ISBNs for Manual Trigger Point Therapy are 9783132203112, 3132203114 and the print ISBNs are 9783132203112, 3132203114. Additional ISBNs include 3132202916, 9783132202917.