The Concise Book of Trigger Points - Softcover

Niel-Asher, Simeon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905367511 ISBN 13: 9781905367511

Publisher: Lotus Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

Since publication almost ten years ago, The Concise Book of Trigger Points has been translated into over 20 languages and become a best seller worldwide.

This new edition has been completely updated and revamped, sharing current research, evidence, and advanced techniques for manual therapy practitioners, as well as simple self-help protocols that the layperson can do at home.

Containing full-colour illustrations, it is a compact reference guide, and explains how to treat chronic pain through trigger points; tender, painful nodules that form in muscle fibers and connective tissues. So much pain can be relieved quickly and efficiently with simple trigger point therapy.

The book is designed in an easy reference format to offer useful information about the trigger points relating to the main skeletal muscles, which are central to massage, bodywork, and physical therapy.

The first six chapters provide a sound background to the physiology of trigger points, and the general methods of treatment. Chapters 7 to 12 are organized by muscle group, with the information about each muscle presented in a uniform style throughout. Each two-page spread gives detailed anatomical information, referred pain patterns, plus key trigger point information, practitioner protocols, and self-help information and drawings.

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Review

This book wonderfully describes the syndromes of myofascial pain that affect the skeletal muscles. The text is clear, with detailed information about the presentation of syndromes in each body region, and the illustrations show the referred pain patterns clearly.

I highly recommend this book for clinicians, but also for individuals suffering from myofascial pain who will find it useful in understanding and managing their pain. --Dr. Bob Gerwin, MD, FAAN Medical Director and President, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Simeon Niel-Asher has put together a practical and helpful guide for both practitioners and patients alike. It is written in a clear language and with full colour diagrams throughout, which show both the sites of origin of the pain, and referred pain regions, together with possible self-help where appropriate, and better understanding and help from health professionals not previously offered.

Simeon Niel-Asher makes it very clear that trigger points and the pain and other symptoms they cause, can be mistaken for many things. There is a good explanation into the theory behind trigger point s therapy especially the role of the mitochondria, muscles, connective tissue, metabolic problems, kinetics, and chemical reactions in detail.

The book highlights the point that chronic myofascial pain is a physiological condition, that you can't relax a shortened, dysfunctional muscle without physical intervention. Trigger points are highly irritable localized spots of exquisite tenderness, within skeletal muscle , states the author and gives a good structural explanation into the theories behind the formation of trigger points and offers extensive information on probably every helpful therapy available.

The anatomical drawings by illustrator Amanda Williams are amazing; here a picture really does speak a thousand words. The scenarios offered and the presentation of the material connects the reader on a personal level and they are particularly important if the reader is an osteopath, chiropractor, physician or medical student, because understanding how trigger points can affect one's life and livelihood is of extreme significance. Every patient that experiences chronic pain should have access to this information.

I urge patient readers to share this book with their healthcare provider because education is power and patient empowerment creates the same ripple effect of a stone that skips across a body of water; just like trigger points there is no end to the effect it can have.

After reading through this book several times I can honestly say I owe a great deal to the author. I can't recommend it enough to sufferers of these debilitating conditions.

All health care professionals and doctor practices should have a copy. --Positive Health Online: Autumn 2014

This book is a must-have for manual therapists serious about their craft, as well as for serious self-treaters who want to take their level of understanding and treatment independence to a higher level. The book is extremely well organized, well written, and concise. The illustrations are beautiful and accurate. --Jonathan Reynolds, Director, TOLA systems

About the Author

Simeon Niel-Asher B. Phil., B.Sc., (Ost.), who qualified as an osteopath in 1992, uses trigger point therapy in his every day work. He is the inventor of the Niel-Asher technique for treating frozen shoulder syndrome and was named by the Evening Standard newspaper as one of the Top 10 osteopaths in London. He is involved in treating, research, writing, and teaching throughout Europe, the Middle East and the USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lotus Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1905367511
• ISBN 13: 9781905367511
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 240