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The levator scapulae muscle is the most common cause of “stiff neck” complaints, with limited and painful movement. In a clinical case study of active trigger points, the levator scapulae muscle was the most commonly involved neck/shoulder girdle muscle. In another study of 200 normal young adults, 20% of subjects were found to have trigger points in their levator scapulae muscles. Neuromuscular Therapists relieve these trigger points as well as provide stretching for more permanent result. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 491

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Redondo Beach: Pain Reaching Behind Your Back or Laying On Your Side?

Trigger points in the infraspinatus, a small muscle on your shoulder blade, are often the hidden cause for weak, stiff shoulders and arms that tire easily. These trigger points lock up the muscle and make it difficult to reach behind your back, fasten a brassiere, or lay on your side without pain. Neuromuscular Trigger Point Specialist easily releases trigger points in your infraspinatus muscle, to relieve pain and greatly improve your range of motion. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Travell and Simons, 1999, 553

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Hermosa Beach: Does Your Shoulder Click, Grind, or Hurt?

Trigger points in your rotator cuff and shoulder muscles, such as your supraspinatus, subscapularis, and infraspinatus muscles, are often the source of the clicks, grinding, and pain you feel in your shoulder joint. Unresolved trigger points in your shoulder predispose it to tearing, limited range of motion, and injury. Studies show Neuromuscular Trigger Point Therapy helps end shoulder pain, clicking, or grinding, and helps when you’re no longer able to do simple household chores, scratch your back, comb hair, or reach upwards. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today, we service Hermosa Beach and the entire South Bay!

Travell and Simons, 1999

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in South Bay: High Prevalence of Back Pain in High School Sports.

Low back pain is a surprisingly common complaint among young athletes. A study from Finland analyzed 464 teenage athletes from a variety of sports and found that 54.9% experienced back pain during the previous year but only about a quarter sought treatment. Myofascial trigger points always contribute a major portion of back pain, often the root cause of many neuromuscular dysfunctions. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today! We service the entire South Bay!

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Whiplash May Cause Headaches and Neck Pain in 1 Out of Every 6 Elderly Patients.

Could chronic neck pain and headaches in elderly patients be related to a whiplash injury earlier in life? Comprehensive examinations on 134 elderly patients with chronic neck pain and/or headaches determined that damage to the alar ligament in the neck, likely from a previous whiplash injury, was the most likely explanation for long-term neck pain and/or headaches in 15.7% of study participants. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Journal of Central South University Medical Sciences, January 2015

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Why Doesn’t Your Shoulder Move Well.

According to a fascinating article in Massage Today, one of the most overlooked causes of Restricted Range of Motion (RRoM) in the arms is a trigger point cluster — several trigger points in relatively close proximity — in the subscapularis muscle (that’s the muscle that sits sandwiched between the shoulder blade and the ribs.) Most doctors will automatically assume that your RRoM is the product of a dislocation, a fracture, arthritis, or a torn rotator cuff. There’s a startling amount of “idiopathic” RRoM diagnoses, however, and this is quite likely a result of the fact that most traditional doctors have no experience with trigger points, and no idea of how to treat them. You need a qualified Neuromuscular/Trigger Point Massage Therapist — so if your shoulder hurts so much you can’t move your arm and the doctor doesn’t know why, call us today to help.

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Breakthrough Study Shows Neuromuscular Massage Relieves Low Back Pain

A “systematic review of systematic reviews” issued by the US National Library Medicine examined dozens of examinations of hundreds of studies on the question of whether or not massage therapy was an effective treatment of low back pain. Studies have been plagued by problems such as a lack of the clinical definition of “massage therapy” and a lack of direct comparative studies showing the relative success of massage therapy vs. its competition (acupuncture, mobilization, pharmaceuticals), but this meta-study came up with a pretty cear result: “Massage may be an effective treatment option…when compared to placebo.” “Given that there were no reported side effects or adverse events as a result of massage therapy, it may be considered as a viable treatment option.” If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

US National Library of Medicine, September 2013

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Cross-Country Study Shows Trigger Points Are Consistent

Trigger points are new enough to the medical field that few people are seriously studying them, but some groups are making attempts. In this case, a group of scientists from England, Switzerland, and Italy got together and attempted to map the trigger point of the trapezius muscle onto a known medical phenomenon: the “innervation zone,” the spot where the muscle’s primary activating neuron enters the muscle and branches out. They failed — the two don’t match up at all — but along the way they measured the trigger points of more than 70 people’s trapezius muscles and found that the trigger point location was remarkably consistent. “[Trigger points] in the upper trapezius appear to have a stereotyped location,” the study blandly reported. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today in Manhattan Beach!

BioMedCentral.com, June 2013

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Cross-Country Study Shows Trigger Points Are Consistent

Trigger points are new enough to the medical field that few people are seriously studying them, but some groups are making attempts. In this case, a group of scientists from England, Switzerland, and Italy got together and attempted to map the trigger point of the trapezius muscle onto a known medical phenomenon: the “innervation zone,” the spot where the muscle’s primary activating neuron enters the muscle and branches out. They failed — the two don’t match up at all — but along the way they measured the trigger points of more than 70 people’s trapezius muscles and found that the trigger point location was remarkably consistent. “[Trigger points] in the upper trapezius appear to have a stereotyped location,” the study blandly reported. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today in Manhattan Beach!

BioMedCentral.com, June 2013

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Trigger Points & Massage for Lumbar Disc Herniation

Researchers recently from randomly divided 60 patients with lumbar disc hernias into two groups: one received the standard treatment of B12 injections, traction, and heat  therapy. The other received trigger point stimulation and neuromuscular massage therapy. The standard therapy produced an 80% success rate of healing the hernia; the trigger point and massage group? 96.7% If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Healthcare Medicine Institute, April 2014

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Manhattan Beach: Massage Improves Vascular Health; Relieves Pain

Nina Cherie Franklin, a University of Illinois at Chicago postdoctoral fellow in physical therapy, lead a study of the effects of massage on the body. Volunteers were broken into three groups: one that did strenuous leg exercises and received no treatment, one that did the exercises and received massage therapy, and one that did no exercise but received massage therapy anyway. One set of results was expected: the exercise+massage group reported no soreness 90 minutes after the massage, and the exercise-only group was still reporting soreness a full day later. But more impressive was the other result: all three groups had their blood flow measured, and the exercise-only group had reduced blood flow up to 72 hours later — but both of the other groups had improved blood flow 72 hours after their massage. This means that patients with impaired vascular function and/or limited mobility may benefit significantly from regular massage therapy. If you want to get lasting relief from back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and more, then call and book neuromuscular massage today!

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, April 2014

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