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Everyone knows what pain is, unfortunately. As for myofascial, ‘myo,’ means ‘muscle,’ and ‘fascia’ means connective tissue, in this case the tissue that surrounds your muscles. Fascia is continuous throughout the body. You can think of it as a really long roll of natural plastic wrap; it’s amazing stuff that holds everything together. But because fascia connects the entire body, tiny knots in the muscles known as trigger points can create pain far away from the source of the problem. This can make it difficult to determine where the issue is coming from. For example, trigger points in back or neck muscles might cause pain in the head, down the arms, in the hips or legs. Trigger points can also mimic other problems such as fibromyalgia, sciatica, TMJ or even really scary stuff like chest pain that makes you wonder if you’re having a heart attack. The good news is that neuromuscular massage was designed to treat myofascial pain, and best of all, trigger point therapy is natural, no drugs or surgery required.

A vast majority of Americans — more than 100 million — suffers from chronic pain. Unlike acute pain which lasts a relatively short amount of time, chronic pain goes on for weeks, months, or even years. The thing about acute pain, though, is that it sometimes becomes chronic. This is because when a muscle is hurt, overused or otherwise harmed, trigger points may form. The body is very good and tightening up to protect itself. Where it sometimes needs a little help is letting go once the danger is past. That’s where neuromuscular massage and trigger point therapy come in.

Your muscle pain probably matters to you, and it definitely matters to the massage therapists at Massage Revolution’s Back & Neck Relief Center. If conventional medicine has failed to treat your pain, give us a try. Neuromuscular massage is proven safe and effective to treat your trigger point pain. Although most of our clients experience amazing relief after a single session, many prefer to get regular treatments to keep their pain in check. There is no reason to suffer. Call us today.

You Could Be A Candidate For Trigger Point Therapy Or Neuromuscular Massage For Trigger Point Pain !
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The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Got back pain? Studies show that some 80% of us will suffer from back pain at some point or other in our lives. But seeing as that’s most of us, this fact probably doesn’t come as a surprise. What you might not know is that research also shows that a whopping three-quarters of our pain is caused by trigger points. To be sure, things like herniated discs and arthritis could be the source of your back pain, as could a whole laundry list of other problems from kidney stones to scoliosis. But by and large, trigger points, which are tiny, extremely sensitive micro-cramps in your muscles, are most often to blame.

Trigger points in back and neck muscles, and really anywhere in the body, are usually the result of poor posture and/or overuse, such as work- or sports-related repetitive motions. Stress, nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins can also cause trigger points. So can a car accident, a lumpy pillow or even an air conditioning vent blowing on your neck. So what? you might think. So, these little gremlins known as trigger points cause big problems, changing the way you sit, stand, and move. This in turn puts stress on your muscles, tendons and joints, and can add up to dysfunction throughout the body.

The bad news is that trigger points are not well-studied — or even understood — by the medical community. Doctors tend to prescribe medications or surgery to treat the symptoms, but these things rarely address the source of the problem. The good news is that neuromuscular massage and trigger point therapy can alleviate your trigger point pain, all without drugs or surgery.

The massage therapists at Massage Revolution’s Back & Neck Relief Center are the best in the business and have all received advanced training in finding and treating trigger points in back muscles, in neck muscles, or anywhere they appear on the body. Many of our clients experience amazing relief after a single session of trigger point massage, while others prefer to schedule regular appointments to keep on top of their triggers. Either way, there’s no need to suffer due to trigger point pain. What are you waiting for? Call and schedule your neuromuscular massage appointment today.

You Could Be A Candidate For Trigger Point Therapy Or Neuromuscular Massage For Trigger Point Pain !
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 310-798-4263 OR GO TO www.MassageRevolution.com

The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Whether or not you subscribe to the “no pain, no gain” philosophy of exercise, this rule doesn’t apply when it comes to needless suffering due to trigger points in back or neck muscles. Trigger points are tiny cramps in your muscles that can appear as a result of injury, under or overuse, stress or poor posture. But there’s no reason to let that crick in your back interfere with your life. Trigger point therapy can relieve your pain without drugs or surgery, and often in just a single session.

Trigger points can cause a laundry list of symptoms, the most common being back pain. But trigger points in neck muscles can lead to more esoteric issues like ringing in the ears, dizziness, teeth grinding, or a sore throat. Other problems that are seemingly unrelated to muscles but are sometimes caused by trigger points in back muscles are diarrhea, irritable bowel, nausea and sciatica-type pain. Trigger points can even cause a fluttery heartbeat and make you feel like you’re having a heart attack.

For as much trouble as they cause, trigger points are poorly understood throughout the medical community. This is partly because muscle pain isn’t well researched, and also because trigger point pain mimics other issues that doctors are more familiar with treating. But if your runny nose is due to a trigger point, you can snort nasal spray all day long without ever getting closer to solving your problem. Even a seemingly minor complaint like a headache may cause you to say no to activities you’d really rather take part in, and missing out reduces your quality of life. This is where we come in.

At Massage Revolution’s Back and Neck Relief Center, our expert massage therapists treat all the signs and symptoms of trigger point pain. While it’s likely you’ll feel amazing relief after one session of neuromuscular massage or trigger point therapy , many of our clients choose to make regular appointments to keep their pain in check. Say goodbye to pain, and hello to a body that functions the way it was meant to.

You Could Be A Candidate For Trigger Point Therapy Or Neuromuscular Massage For Trigger Point Pain !
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 310-798-4263 OR GO TO www.MassageRevolution.com

The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

“My back is killing me.”

If you’ve uttered this phrase or the thought has crossed your mind recently, you’re not alone. Pain is a serious problem. Somewhere between 50-100 million Americans suffer from some type of chronic pain, and about 25 million of those say they’re in pain on a daily basis. A whopping 80% of Americans will suffer from back pain at some point or other, and one out of every three adults say back pain has an impact on their everyday activities, including important stuff like sleep. The good news is that there is a drug-free, surgery-free way to get relief for your chronic back pain : trigger point massage .

While most of us have experienced back or neck pain, very few of us know what causes the problem. Stress, poor posture, a sedentary lifestyle, and injuries are common culprits, but a lesser known cause of back and neck pain are trigger points . Trigger points are tiny micro-cramps in the muscles. Sometimes, they’re a complication that happen following an injury. Other times, trigger points are the source of the problem. And plenty of times, they’re like the chicken-and-egg conundrum, a little bit of both.

Trigger points can cause pain anywhere, such as in back or neck muscles. This is called local pain, and it means you feel it right where the trigger point is located. Trigger points can also refer pain elsewhere, such as up into your head or down into your hips and legs. When you have a whole bunch of trigger points , this is called myofascial pain syndrome, or MPS.

Fibromyalgia is another common type of chronic pain. Some 10 million Americans have been diagnosed with the condition, but it is possible (and even probable) that the tender points doctors use to diagnose fibromyalgia may also be trigger points .

The massage therapists at Massage Revolution’s Back & Neck Relief Center are experts at unraveling the mystery of trigger point pain . Because chronic pain is, well, chronic, many of our customers prefer to come for regular appointments, but you can experience amazing relief after just a single session. Trigger point therapy and neuromuscular massage might just be the piece of the puzzle you’ve been missing to solve the mystery of your chronic pain.

You Could Be A Candidate For Trigger Point Therapy Or Neuromuscular Massage For Trigger Point Pain !
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 310-798-4263 OR GO TO www.MassageRevolution.com

The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Trigger points are small but incredibly sensitive areas in your muscles that can cause intense pain in neck and back muscles, or anywhere in the body. A primary or central trigger point might be the result of an injury, repetitive stress or even happen due to oddball circumstances, such as having an air conditioning vent blowing on you all day long. If you’ve tried pain killers, muscle relaxants and other common treatments for your pain without success, read on. Neuromuscular massage and trigger point therapy can provide the relief you’re looking for, all without drugs or surgery.

Trigger point pain can take on a surprising number forms. Besides the all-too-common nagging pain in neck and low back muscles, trigger points can cause wide-spread stiffness, tingling or a dull ache that makes the day drag. They might show up as a headache, sciatica, carpel tunnel or tendonitis. Trigger points can also hit you with intense zingers that leaves you breathless.

But while injury, accidents, poor posture, and under- or overuse can cause a trigger point to develop, it doesn’t always stop there. Satellite trigger points often pop up near the primary one, and sometimes secondary trigger points can also appear. A secondary trigger point usually happens as a result of compensating for the original problem. So for example, if you have a sedentary job, primary trigger points can develop in low back muscles from sitting in the same posture for hours on end, and secondary points can spring up in the hip flexors and thighs due to shortening of the muscles from disuse, aka, atrophy. Looking at your phone or computer screen for long periods of time can cause ‘text neck,’ and often results in painful trigger points in neck muscles that can shoot up into the head or down the arms as the muscles in your neck strain to hold up that head that weighs as much as a bowling ball.

The therapists at Massage Revolution’s Back & Neck Relief Center are all certified in neuromuscular massage and trigger point therapy . We’re pros at finding all your trigger points , whether primary, secondary, satellite or any other kind, and you’ll likely feel incredible relief after a single session. Sound too good to be true? It isn’t. Trigger point massage is just plain old good.

Neuromuscular Massage Or Trigger Point Therapy May Be The
Solution For Your Pain !
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 310-798-4263 OR GO TO www.MassageRevolution.com

The Back & Neck Relief Center (Massage Revolution)
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd Suite 101
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Los Angeles: Learn the History About Neuromuscular Massage Therapy (NMT).

In the 1930’s Dr. Stanley Lief, a trained Chiropractor and Naturopathic Physician along with his cousin Boris Chaitow also trained in chiropractic and naturopathy experimented with neuromuscular massage treatments for muscular pain at Leif’s world-famous health resort in Hertfordshire, England. The treatment was so successful that their neuromuscular massage technique became common practice in osteopathic and sports therapy venues all over Europe. Over the next several decades, two American Doctors, Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. David Simons, published a two volume set of textbooks titled “The Trigger Point Manual on Upper Body and Lower Body Pain” that identified with documentation, research, and references that the Source of most pain is “knots” in your muscles. A whole new field of study for chronic pain was introduced to the medical, dental, massage, and therapeutic communities called-Neuromuscular Therapy. Call today and request Neuromuscular Massage for longer lasting relief!

Mother of 3 Practically Pain-Free

– Genevieve Land

Do you sit all day with your “perfect” chair and still suffer from lower back pain? Sitting is one of the biggest culprits to lower back, hip, knee and all sorts of chronic pain. As human beings, your body’s design and “blueprint” is for motion, whether for walking, running, even skipping. It’s amazing to imagine how the desk job has only existed for a “blink of the eye” compared to how long us humans have been around. The high-tech and computer revolution has created the desk job with a number of chronic pain conditions to boot.

The Source of Your Lower Back Pain When Sitting is a Locked Spine!

The source of the problem with lower back pain when sitting is that your spine remains locked and in a fixed position all long without movement. Sitting all day long in the typical office chair in fixed position deactivates and “shuts down” your pelvic and lower back postural muscles. Basically, your postural muscles go on vacation for awhile and start to atrophy and waste away from lack of use as they turn to jelly. This is a huge problem, as you need these very same muscles to stabilize your lower back and keep it strong.

Throughout civilization, human beings have constantly trained their postural muscles to be active with functional activities such as walking, squatting, lifting, and lunging. Before technology, the hunter and gather, cave man, cowboy, and every other time period people needed to be very active to survive. Now, it’s a whole society that goes from the computer desk, to the car, to the remote control on the couch.

So why do you need your pelvic and lumbar postural muscles to be so active? Well, you see, it’s your postural muscles that hold you vertically upright, strong and stable, balanced, and keep you out of lower back pain when sitting. Without these muscles active throughout your day while you focus for hours typing away at your computer, these muscles basically turn to mash potatoes just like Gumby. That’s why elderly people often fall, and lose their balance and stability. Their postural muscles have gone become too weak.

If you do sit for hours upon hours each day, there are highly effective postural exercises exercises you can do to keep your postural muscles engaging over time

However, the first thing you must do is get the right chair that doesn’t lock your spine all day and gives it the movement it needs. There’s so many expensive chairs on the market, the majority still keeping your spine locked all day long.

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The worst thing for your back, body, and nervous system is to lock your spine in place for hours sitting. Your muscles, tendons, ligaments and discs get tight, compressed, and rigid over time. Even subtle movement provides benefits to your back. This ergonomic chairs unique, patented design facilitates movement. The chair allows your spine to move all day long, keeping your spine loose, supple, and flexible.

Have you ever heard the saying “just lose a few pounds and your low back pain will disappear?” While it’s fairly common knowledge that too many extra pounds often leads to back pain, there’s certain diets and food to avoid that help too!

Yes, weight loss is important, and you’re flooded daily with every type of weight loss program imaginable, especially right here in Los Angeles, California.

Since even with all our modern day advances we’re very similar genetically to our Paleolithic ancestors, the cave man, let’s take a brief look into their diet, what food they avoided, for a more balanced diet.

Lean meats, preferably grass fed, with fruits and vegetables made up the vast majority of the cave man diet. Even today, our bodies break down and assimilate these foods with a minimal inflammatory response to your system. It’s inflammation often at the root cause of illnesses such as back pain, candida, and muscular skeletal conditions, initiated from your abdominal wall and digestive system.

So, what’s the secret to why cave man didn’t have back pain in Los Angeles? The answer is they didn’t eat gluten! This protein is found in wheat, rye, and flour products such as pasta, bread, cakes, cereals, beer and more.

Too much gluten in your diet causes an inflammatory response and immune reaction in our bodies that ends up damaging the small intestine, leading to gastrointestinal distress and nutritional deficiencies. Over time, this can lead to weight gain and an assortment of medical conditions.

There’s a proven connection between gluten and back pain. Your back pain can result from too much gluten just because of too much inflammation in your lower abdominal wall. This inflammation shuts down and inhibits your lower abdominal muscles from activating properly, which is important to stabilize your pelvis and lumbar spine. Your lower back and abdominals are one in the same, and work together to support your muscular skeletal system. Think of them as a “corset” where they support and stabilize your lower back and spine from the back and front side. At least now you know that when eating that break or pasta, you may be de-stabilizing your lumbar spine, and increasing inflammation to the surrounding lower back and pelvic muscles.

Now you see why it’s important to cut down on and avoid gluten if you suffer from back pain, sciatica, abdominal pain or any musculoskeletal condition. It’s easy to find “gluten-free” foods in the grocery stores, as many stores devote an entire section to it.

Try a more “gluten free” diet, and you may notice your weight decreasing and energy levels increasing. Your back pain might disappear so you enjoy your life so much more, and sit, stand, and walk pain-free.

Scientists long concluded the human body is made for motion, especially walking, to keep a strong and stable lower back. This was after lengthy studies of its design and upright good posture. Despite this fact, many people rarely every walk. Gone are the hunter-gatherer days when a human being would trek for miles to search for food. These days, an average human being is seated most of time at an office desk, in the car or simply relaxing on the couch in front of a television.

The effect of prolonged sitting on your lower back is muscle atrophy and weakness of the same muscles we need strong to stabilize your back and pelvis. Our gluteal or “butt” muscles and other postural muscles waste away from lack of use when we sit on our “butts” all day. Walking is just what the back doctor ordered for this as it engages and gently activates these gluteal and postural muscles in a functional way to create better muscle balance for your pelvis and low back muscles.

As you walk, you activate and engage your gluteal, pelvic, and hip muscles, bringing your posture and spine into better alignment. A twisted, weak, or dysfunctional pelvis causing back pain is often alleviated with gentle walking exercise and gluteal contractions.

Studies of kids in Norway revealed that over 50% suffered with back pain over the last year. This is in spite of the fact that most parents think their kids are immune to lower back problems by virtue of their young age. It would appear that lower back pain begins early and continues into adulthood.

It was also noted from research that lower back pain is inversely proportional to physical activity. The more time children spent in physical activity the less back pain they experienced while the more time they spent in front of a television, computer or video game the more likely they were to have back pain; walking was found to reduce back pain considerably. This is why doing regular, daily walking exercises for lower back pain is often great to relieve your pain.

In another study of adults who were regularly active through moderate exercise such as walking, major differences were seen between them and people who were inactive. The exercise group had better emotional states of being, used less pain reliever medication and had less need for physical therapy for back pain. They also had much less workplace disability.

The advantages of walking are seen even in old age. Older citizens who walk regularly have less incidence of lower body disability. Walking can help to lose the back pain because it’s what the human body is designed to do. The blueprint design of our bodies is for motion, not stagnation.

Not everyone in the world lives a sedentary lifestyle; there are others – blue collar workers – who engage in strenuous repetitive tasks. This category of people is at risk of muscle imbalances, trigger points, injury and spasms. Thus, both a sedentary lifestyle and strenuous work can lead to back pain. The fact of the matter is that 90% of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives.

In the past, conventional medical wisdom said that a week’s bed rest was good enough to fix back pain. However, research continues to contradict this position. It would appear that the best way to end back pain and keep it away is first through neuromuscular trigger point therapy, posture alignment exercises and regular physical activity. Nothing beats walking as a form of exercise for back pain.

If you’re a Los Angeles Back Pain sufferer or looking for a pain management or pain relief specialist, call now.

With so many pillow options on the market today, no wonder people are so confused as to the best pillow for neck and back pain. There are pillows for stomach sleepers, side sleepers, back sleepers, and insomniacs!

To add to this, every pillow ad says they have the world’s greatest pillow to solve your neck, shoulder and back pain. Even health practitioners are often biased as to their favorite sleeping cushions.

Here’s the deal with pillows, and it’s very important for you to understand…

It’s not about the pillow, never was, and never will be.

It’s about your postural alignment, and how your head, neck, shoulder and hips line up when sleeping.

The better aligned your head, neck, shoulders and hips are when sleeping, the less aches and pains you have when you awake!

Focusing on your alignment specifically, and not your pillow, is your best long termsolution to minimize tension all night long, and get your best nights sleep.

You see, you may have the “world’s greatest neck, cervical, or lumbar pillow”, yet if it’s too thick and lifts your head too high, then your head is out of alignment all night with your neck and shoulder muscles suffering.

The solution is quite simple…use a thin pillow that gently supports your neck yet doesn’t lift it too high out of alignment from the rest of your body. If you need any further neck support, roll a small towel, roughly 3-4 inches in diameter, and put it under your neck to support your cervical curve further.

This maintains the proper position and alignment for your neck and back.

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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Los Angeles: Learn the History About Neuromuscular Massage Therapy (NMT).

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