Services Offered At BodyWorks Healing Center

Trigger Point Therapy 

A trigger point is a highly irritable point in a muscle, which contributes critically to pain. A fall, blow, trauma, strain, sprain, injury, illness or emotional wounding can insult a muscle and provide the opportunity for a trigger point to form. A trigger point lays quiet in a muscle until certain conditions are present. Then it fires, throwing the muscle into spasm. This results in the sensation of pain. The nervous system responds and sends more spasm to “protect” the site. This results in more pain and the Spasm – Pain – Spasm Cycle continues. The therapist applies concentrated finger pressure to tender areas in the muscle in order to break the cycle of spasm and pain.  This is typically performed in sessions of neuromuscular therapy or deep tissue massage.

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