Myotherapy is a treatment that relives pain; it involves applying pressure at trigger points that are situated all over the body. Trigger points are hypersensitive locations that are responsible for pain when the individual is under undue stress; emotional stress, physical stress, disease, or injuries caused by accidents. Trigger points are generally located away from the location of the pain however rarely they may be located at the pain site.Myotherapy is based on the principle that the release of tension in the muscle followed by restoring new vigor to the muscle by exercise and stretching helps healing and reduces the tendency of the concerned muscle and nerve to cause pain.Dr Janet Travell, MD (1901-1997) developed a method of pain relief called as the trigger point massage. Today physical therapists and physicians all over the world use this technique. Dr Travell was the white house physician during the Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations. Earlier she had successfully treated President Kennedy for myofascial pain that had almost threatened his political career.Bonnie Prudden a fitness expert investigated the parallels between injecting pain relievers in the locations as in trigger point therapy to relieve pain. Pressure applied on specific trigger point’s relieved pain. Bonnie […]

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