What’s a Trigger Point?

A trigger point or a muscle knot as it a tight “knot” or band of muscle tissue, like an area of contraction in a muscle that does not relax. It’s not the same as a tight muscle as it involves one small area, like a tiny patch in the muscle that is in spasm. What makes trigger points different is that the pain they cause is most often not felt in the area where the trigger point reside. Instead, these muscle knots send pain to different and often unexpected regions, making it difficult for someone to understand that the pain in one part of their body is being caused by a trigger point in another part. Myofascial Trigger Points are the commonest cause of undiagnosed or misdiagnosed aches, pains and other puzzling symptoms. The daily clinical experience of thousands of physiotherapists, massage therapists and physicians verifies that most back and neck pain and headaches which are recurrent and stubborn are caused by trigger points or muscles knots.