Chapter 9a: Trigger Points
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What are Trigger Points? Simons, Travel and Simons defined a trigger point (TrP) as a hyperirritable spot in skeletal muscle that is associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band. The spot is tender and gives rise to characteristic referred pain, motor dysfunction and autonomic phenomena. Thus each TrP contains a sensory component, […]