Trigger Point Referral and Front of Your Hip PainWe see this all the time! People come to us complaining of pain in the front of their hip. Typically when doing exercises like running or cycling. It feels like a deep pain up near their groin at the front of their leg. Releasing the iliopsoas muscle can often decrease this pain because of where this muscle refers to in your body. It is also interesting to know that your psoas is responsible for a lot of lower back pain and when you look at where it refers to it is easy to see why. |
Trigger Point Referral and HeadachesWe have clients all the time who come in complaining of headaches. The most common thing we will do is look at their range of motion of their neck and upper back and check the tightness in the muscles of their neck and shoulders. If you have a look at the two diagrams these are an example of why! Your SCM - Sternocleidomastoid. The big chunky muscle on the front of your neck that pops out when you turn your head refers to your forehead. Your Upper Traps - refers pain behind your ear, on the side of your head and behind your eye. By releasing these muscles we can often significantly decrease headaches for our clients. |
Trigger Point Referral and Shoulder PainDo you ever experience pain in the front of your shoulder? Sometimes your infraspinatus (a muscle on the back of your arm) or your Subscapularis ( a muscle that sits on the inside of your shoulder blade) can cause you pain at the front of your shoulder as well as some radiation down your arm. When you look at the referral pattern of both muscles below it is easy to understand why your remedial massage therapist will look at these muscles when you complain of anterior (front) shoulder pain.
Sub scap trigger points involve applying pressure through your under arm and onto the front of your shoulder blade.It is an uncomfortable sensation and often difficult to loosen off yourself. Your remedial massage therapist may ask you to rotate your arm downwards towards your hips because as you do this motion the muscle shortens and we can feel it more easily. |
Trigger Point Referral and Knee PainKnee pain is a common complaint for clients of our Spring Hill and Woolloongabba clinics. Trigger point referral pain can occur on the inside, outside, front or back of your knee. Depending on where you tell us you are experiencing the pain will determine which muscles we look at first.
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