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Summary: I LOVE this book!
Review: I feel this book provides excellent self-help information for anyone suffering from chronic pain, sports injuries, and/or tight muscles. After months of PT, massage, stretching, etc., I feel I've finally stumbled upon a solution that I can take control of myself. I do feel Mr. Davies omitted a couple helpful hints to increase the effectiveness of trigger point therapy: gentle stretching immediately AFTER working the trigger points, and icing any area that has been worked intensively.
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Summary: Trigger book worked better than accu/chiro/PT/prescrip/etc.
Review: I have four "bulged" low back disks. Other than surgery, I've tried everything, and the approach I found in this book worked best. Hard to believe, but the simple massage of trigger points is for me a bigger help than accupuncture, accupressure, chiropractic, PT, yoga, Pilates, Flexeril, NSAIDs, Prednisone, etc. My wife has plantir faciitis (a runners' foot injury), and it's helped her, too. You don't even have to read the book, just look for a picture that locates your pain, and rub that set of trigger points (although the book is worth a read).
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Summary: Warning! Keep this book to yourself
Review: I have now bought five copies of this book, giving them to friends, chronic sufferers of various completely misdiagnosed muscular plagues. The plain line drawings of an older guy doing it to himself and the author's tale of self-rescue from debilitating occupational trigger points are immediately winning. This is absolutely not another new age accupressure chakra crystallology AUM; it is the real thing. Pinch yourself; that's where it's at. You have to get the Thera cane and the K-mart balls, too. I am only an amateur (hey baby!) masseur; but this book makes me feel a huge responsibility to, you know, CURE people. Next thing one knows one has a following like Jesus and has to employ a bodyguard and an accountant, and, well a personal masseur. OK I'm kidding; a bit anyway. This book has me back in my kayak, back with the free weights; and I didn't even think I had a problem other than inherited inflexibility and the usual tender knots that I thought were actually me muscools. When you buy this book, write to the publisher and demand a new spiral-bound edition. So you can read it as you walk through the adoring crowd, lay it flat at the selected page. And a note to the author, telling him what a sweetie he is, and rilly, crowd control is your problem, not his. Blessed be those who read this book, and do it to themselves.
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Summary: Solved my Wrist Pain - awesome!
Review: I love this book! It explained the exact cause of pain in my right wrist - bending the hand at the elbow when using a computer mouse/keyboard. The trigger point was near my elbow, and a massage there completely relieved my pain!
I now have a "quill mouse" (quillmouse dot com) that keeps the wrist at a neutral position and the pain in my wrist has not returned.
One thing I didn't find in this book is regarding middle back pain. I've been having it since I began work, and found something on the trigger point website (triggerpoint dot com /backpain.htm) about it being referred pain from the stomach, but the book did not contain that information.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: I NEVER WRITE REVIEWS, BUT I HAVE TO SAY THIS IS THE MOST PRACTICALLY ORIENTATED BOOK ON THE MARKET THAT COVERS ALL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM A-Z ON TRIGGER POINTS - A THOROUGH DIY MANUAL. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK BY TRULY REMARKABLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE KINDLY SHARED THEIR KNOWLDGE AND EXPERTISE WITH THE WORLD. IF YOUR IN PAIN DONT HESITATE TO BUY THIS BOOK ITS GURANTEED TO BE OF BENEFIT.
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Summary: Fibromyalgia and Boby Pain
Review: I rate this book right up there with Devin Starlanyl's books. I have had Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain most of my adult life and have been disabled the past 5 years. This book by Mr. Davies has just helped me end 2 months of an excruiating flare of muscle pain. I showed it to my Pain Management physician, who is ordering one for his office and will advise his other patients similarly effected to purchase one if possible. When all the doctors don't know what else to tell you about relieving your body/muscle pain, this book is the answer. It is easily understood by medical professionals and laypeople alike. It's deascription of the muscles and the mechanism involved in the creation of unexplained boby pain is outstanding. Anyone, by themself or with another person, will find the diagrams showing the location of trigger points in muscles and how to achieve relief easy to learn. Mr. Davies explanation of massage therapy for trigger point release has made this book one of the best and most valued tools for self-treatment of body pain.
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Summary: Exceptional book for everyone with a body
Review: I read another book about trigger points and knew that there was something to it, but when I got Clair Davies' book it was like a revelation. This book explains each muscle group and what the symptoms are, and exactly how you can "fix" yourself. You can open the book and begin applying the knowledge in a few minutes. It is ideal for bone, joint or muscle problems, but also for many headaches, toothaches, sinus pain, and so on. It is a shame that this information is so hard to find. I think every physician and health care worker should be very familiar with trigger points and how to teach others about them. This is truly a book that lets you open it up and work instant miracles.
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Summary: About time, I found something that works.
Review: I second the reviews of so many who have been helped by this book. It took a piano technician turned massage therapist to write such a useful book I have spent thousands with specialists who were of little help. None of the many doctors or therapists diagnosed my real problem...trigger points! This book is invaluable for people with soft tissue pain. It is clear, concise and practical. Read the book, follow Clair Danes advice, get a theracane, a lacrosse ball and go at it.
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Summary: Oh my gosh - a MUST HAVE!
Review: I stumbled onto this book in desperation about a year ago. I was 6 months postop from a cervical spine fusion (C 5-6-7) but I continued to have pain in the scapula region and my neck was still so tight I thought I would lose my mind if I couldn't find a way to decrease my pain and improve my mobility. It actually went all the way down my left side and hip. I'd been thru all the proper medical channels and had some benefit from physical therapy but I could NOT get those people (medical) to understand how deep the pain was and how determined I was to get better. I guess they thought since I was functioning (working and going to grad school) at a pretty high level I must be OK. ARGH. We need to teach them to LISTEN better. THis book-ALONE-helped tremendously and I immediately bought a Theracane. I started getting professional massages a couple months later and was fortunate to find a person who is well-versed in trigger point. Between the 2 of us I am 110% better but still not "perfect" (and probably won't ever be!). I start every morning with a lot of trigger point massage while I'm still laying in bed planning out my day! I'm sure people think I'm nuts when they see me driving down the road with a tennis ball in my hand! Just yesterday during my massage, the therapist told me to go home and look up QUADRATUS LUMBORUM in my Trigger Point book. Lo and behold... I thought I was reading about myself! It's amazing how working on these trigger points also releases the tension UP my spine and in the scapula area. I use the trigger point massage in combination with chiropractic adjustments and professional massage (every 2-3 wks) and I do still take Vioxx. Each individual has to find what works best for him/her. BUY THIS BOOK TODAY - YOU WON'T BE SORRY! This book CAN be read by the average "Joe or Susie" and help will follow! I've bought at least 6 copies for friends/relatives and recommend it heartily.
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Summary: Oh my gosh - a MUST HAVE!
Review: I stumbled onto this book in desperation about a year ago. I was 6 months postop from a cervical spine fusion (C 5-6-7) but I continued to have pain in the scapula region and my neck was still so tight I thought I would lose my mind if I couldn't find a way to decrease my pain and improve my mobility. It actually went all the way down my left side and hip. I'd been thru all the proper medical channels and had some benefit from physical therapy but I could NOT get those people (medical) to understand how deep the pain was and how determined I was to get better. I guess they thought since I was functioning (working and going to grad school) at a pretty high level I must be OK. ARGH. We need to teach them to LISTEN better. THis book-ALONE-helped tremendously and I immediately bought a Theracane. I started getting professional massages a couple months later and was fortunate to find a person who is well-versed in trigger point. Between the 2 of us I am 110% better but still not "perfect" (and probably won't ever be!). I start every morning with a lot of trigger point massage while I'm still laying in bed planning out my day! I'm sure people think I'm nuts when they see me driving down the road with a tennis ball in my hand! Just yesterday during my massage, the therapist told me to go home and look up QUADRATUS LUMBORUM in my Trigger Point book. Lo and behold... I thought I was reading about myself! It's amazing how working on these trigger points also releases the tension UP my spine and in the scapula area. I use the trigger point massage in combination with chiropractic adjustments and professional massage (every 2-3 wks) and I do still take Vioxx. Each individual has to find what works best for him/her. BUY THIS BOOK TODAY - YOU WON'T BE SORRY! This book CAN be read by the average "Joe or Susie" and help will follow! I've bought at least 6 copies for friends/relatives and recommend it heartily.
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