Myofascial pain is a technical way to describe muscle pain. This is pain and inflamation around the body's soft tissue structures. It can be a chronic condition that affects the connective tissue that covers muscles (fascia). These conditions can often times be aggravated by poor posture, bad ergonomics, and common day to day activity like gardening.
Myofascial pain may involve either a single muscle or a muscle group. In some cases, the area where a person experiences the pain may not be where the myofascial pain generator is located. Research has shown that the actual site of the injury prompts the development of a trigger point that, in turn, causes pain in other areas. This situation is known as referred pain. Pain referral is very common and can sometimes be tricky to diagnose properly due to pain emitting from tissue that is not the origin of the injury.
How do we treat it?
- Massage- Trigger points are found and eliminated by condition specific treatment.
- Chiropractic adjustments- When joints are free to move properly, surrounding muscle works more efficiently thus lessening the total load.
- Physical Therapy- When trigger points are eliminated muscle is strengthen to reduce the recurrence of them.
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