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| The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Clair Davies, Amber Davies
Creator: David G. Simons
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
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Customer Ratings:  238 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 323
Shipping Weight (pounds): 2.4
Dimensions (inch): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1572243759
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.822
EAN: 9781572243750
Publication Date: July 2004
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| Customer Comments:
 Now here's information that everyone can use. January 11, 2002
9 out of 11 found this comment useful.
This book has a wealth of information for anyone suffering from pain, whether it's chronic or acute pain. I am also a Nationally Certified massage therapist, and I recommend this book to my clients and colleagues. The techniques are simple and Clair does an excellent job of explaining everything one needs to know to understand the pain and become pain free. I have seen tremendous results time and again with my clients, and they can't believe how quickly their pain can be reduced or eliminated. This book is essential for anyone with pain and also for those who work with people in pain.
I tell everyone about this book. December 1, 2001
181 out of 213 found this comment useful.
Mr. Davies has created a very useful reference for my practice as a registered nurse and a massage therapist. I like to show the book to all my clients and most of them end up buying it. Trigger points and the self massage therapy for them are explained in an enjoyable manner. The author's writing is so down to earth that it seems as if he's right in the same room talking to you as you read. It's well organized and based on the works of Travell and Simons. It's easy to look up a particular muscle. The detailed therapy instructions for each site have helpful illustrations and the author explains the usual causes for specific trigger points. I tell my friends, fellow massage therapists and clients that this book is the best resource for self-treatment of muscular pain I have discovered. All health care providers and receivers will benefit from this book and it's not unrealistic to say it will reduce health care costs. The book is a treasure.
If you've tried everything under the sun. Give this a chance October 24, 2001
12 out of 14 found this comment useful.
Before I started working with this book, I was ready to face oral surgery hoping to alive TMJ, which I thought was the cause of my vocal problems. I didn't know that my back pain and general muscle tension were all related with active trigger points. After 4 months of doing the therapy my self, I feel a lot better. The results that I got from Mr. Clair's book have brought new hope for my opera singing career. Now that my body is looser and freer, my voice is too.
Comprehensive information that promotes self-management... October 9, 2001
46 out of 47 found this comment useful.
This book is a godsend. Clair Davies' book starts by describing the author's personal journey as a person in pain who discovered the power of self-applied trigger point therapy. The book then goes on to detail the basics of trigger point science and methods of self-treatment. Each body region contains muscle-by-muscle descriptions of trigger point locations, causes, referred pain patterns, and specific self-treatment techniques with fingers, thumbs, tennis balls or other hand-held "tools". Two populations will benefit. The first are professionals dealing with myofascial pain. Mr. Davies' book has neatly summarized many of the essentials contained in the bar-setting but often intimidating 2-volume "bibles" of trigger point therapy by Janet Travell and David Simons, which will make many more practitioners comfortable with the idea of searching for and treating trigger points with manual techniques. More important than information for clinicians is the help and hope this book offers to suffering patients. The book's focus is on self-treatment, which is not only *possible*, but is in fact *extremely* effective, and often downright necessary in this day and age: healthcare costs are forever rising, insurance coverage for physical therapy grows progressively more restrictive, massage therapists are often costly and the majority of the time, not covered by insurance, and, money factors aside, pain does not always present itself when professional treatment is readily available. Even with the *best* professional treatment, myofascial conditions are highly recurrent and knowing how to deal with these recurrences empowers patients and thereby reduces fear and apprehension. With information referenced from current and highly reputable sources, The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook has not only my highest recommendation, but also the endorsement of many, many well-known names in the field of myofascial pain, including one of its pioneers, Dr. David Simons.
Fibromyalgia and Boby Pain August 31, 2001
46 out of 48 found this comment useful.
I rate this book right up there with Devin Starlanyl's books. I have had Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain most of my adult life and have been disabled the past 5 years. This book by Mr. Davies has just helped me end 2 months of an excruiating flare of muscle pain. I showed it to my Pain Management physician, who is ordering one for his office and will advise his other patients similarly effected to purchase one if possible. When all the doctors don't know what else to tell you about relieving your body/muscle pain, this book is the answer. It is easily understood by medical professionals and laypeople alike. It's deascription of the muscles and the mechanism involved in the creation of unexplained boby pain is outstanding. Anyone, by themself or with another person, will find the diagrams showing the location of trigger points in muscles and how to achieve relief easy to learn. Mr. Davies explanation of massage therapy for trigger point release has made this book one of the best and most valued tools for self-treatment of body pain.
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