One of the most common treatments sought about by clients is the removal or soothing of 'muscle knots'.  Of course no-one actually has their muscle tied into a knot (insert personal visual here), rather you are experiencing a myofascial Trigger Point.

Now one of my goals in this forum is to stop myself from rewriting what many other, far more brilliant writers than me have written about.  Instead I will try to break things down into simple useable learning and referrals to where to get trusted information.

SaveYoueself.ca by Paul Ingraham, Vancouver, BC is such a site and he writes a beautiful piece here.  I have been following his writing for some time now and generally am in agreement with Paul and his ideas.  He too is a BC trained RMT, prior to focusing on his science writing.

LifeAfterPain.com by Dr. Jonathan Kuttner, New Zealand is a site I have just stumbled across.  I am particularly excited about his Trigger Point finder tool which he has graciously allowed practitioners to add to their sites. I have posted it here in my resources section.  I plan to add more information about self treating those pesky little MyoFascial Trigger Points (MTrPs) in the near future -watch for it.

Both of the above sites do sell stuff.  However they are are selling what amounts to pretty good science, not snake-oil or get better pills.  You are welcome to participate or not.  I am not endorsing them, nor am I affiliated.  I do believe they are providing a good amount of free info which compliments the things I am telling my clients everyday as part of their treatments.

Take a look, play with the trigger point finder and I look forward to your questions and feed back, either in the comments below or via email.

~d.