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    The Truth About Muscle Pain

    Find out one of the biggest unrecognised causes of Muscle Pain

    Dr Jonathan KuttnerMBBCh, Dip O&G, FRNZCGP, Dip Sports Med, Dip MSM, FAFMM.

    And how to switch it off - without drugs, surgery or expensive treatments.

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    Many people have muscle pain - its one of the most common things we all experience at some stage in our lives.

    Some of you, though, may have had muscle pain for years and all the experts you have seen have been unable toexplain it or help you.

    There is, however, an explanation for muscle pain thats not so well known. Im talking about:

    Myofascial Trigger Points.

    Most people have them (though they may not be active.) They can cause shooting pain, dull aching pain, and stiffness.And if you have active trigger points, all the anti-inflammatory pills, gels, exercises - even surgery wont do you any

    good.

    What will help?Learning how to find and switch off trigger points - and stop them coming back.

    So lets dive right in.

    What is a trigger point? The basic definition is a very small area of spasm within your muscle. The trigger point can belatent (not in spasm, but with that potential - like a dormant volcano) or active (spasmed and painful.)

    Some people have a few active trigger points, some people have dozens.

    Trigger points can radiate pain throughout your body or in a specific location. It all depends on the type and number oftrigger points that you have.

    Now, before you get anxious about having triggers, there are a few things I want you to know.

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    1. Trigger Points do not cause damage. They are painful, but they dont actually damage your muscles, orthe surrounding area.

    2. You can switch off trigger points without medication, surgery or expensive equipment.

    Some people have the problem that their trigger points keep coming back - well address that in a later email.

    But for now, what I want you to know about triggers is:

    a) They are not causing permanent damage

    AND....

    b) you can switch them off yourself.

    Lets go in a bit more detail into the science of trigger points - what they are, why we know they arent damaging you,

    and then well get into how to switch them off.

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    What is a trigger point? Medically, its definedas a hyperirritable locus within a tight band of skeletalmuscle. In laymans terms, its an area of spasm - orknot - within a muscle.

    When you have a trigger point, it pulls a thin band oftaut muscle which runs the length of the muscle fibre.And when youre looking for triggers, this feels like aguitar string within the bulk of your muscle.

    A diagram of a Trigger Point within the muscle

    A Trigger Point is like a knotwithin your muscle

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    A brief scientific interlude....the picture aboveis a photomicrograph of a myofascial trigger

    point within skeletalmuscle. In the lower half you can see parallelbands of so-called I-bands & A-bands.

    They are evenly spread. In the upper half

    there is a central elliptical area where thebands are squeezed incredibly tightly to-gether. This is the myofascial trigger point.The band of fibres on either side of this arestretched further apart than normal.

    This is where the trigger point is.

    So after youve examined your muscle and are ableto feel a tight band within it - like a taut guitar string- how do you know for certain that its a trigger?

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    The test for identifying trigger points is quite simple.

    Trigger points act like the trigger of a gun - when the gun is fired, the bullet causes pain elsewhere. Similarly, when atrigger point is activated, it sets off a pain pattern - sometimes causing pain far from the site of the trigger.

    For more information of how triggers work -click here.

    Each pain pattern is specific to that trigger point. There are hundreds oftriggers scattered around the body. Remarkably, each trigger pointpattern has been shown to be consistant over thousands of people.

    Here is a pain pattern for the trapezius muscle - a very commontrigger point.

    As you can see, pressing on the trigger point (the small black cross)causes pain to radiate in a band up into the back of your head.Many people who spend their entire day working hunched in front of acomputer get this pain. It can seem like a sore neck, or tensionheadache.

    But in fact its caused by a trigger point in your shoulders.

    You can test for this trigger point now. Just put your hand on yourshoulder, and search in that spot. Apply gentle pressure, until you find aspot where you push into your shoulder muscle - and get pain thattravels up your neck.

    This is an active trigger point.

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    Now you know what to look for, lets get onto how you can switch off your trigger points.

    The first thing I want you to know is this:

    Trigger Point releases - when done correctly -

    should not hurt.

    I know the No Pain, No Gain philosophy - and it doesnt apply here. Think about it - whenyou stress a muscle, it automatically tightens up - as a protective reflex. This is part ofwhat causes trigger points in the first place.

    So doing trigger point releases that cause your muscles to tighten up is like trying to lift achair youre sitting on. Youre working against yourself.

    Now there is a marvelous technique for doing pain free trigger point releases which Im going to describe to you soon.

    But first I want you to understand exactly how trigger points work. Once you understand this youll see why a pain freetrigger point release is so important.

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    The key structure in understanding trigger points is the muscle spindle fibre. This is a nerve arranged in a spiral,looking and behaving like a spring. It is found in parallel with your muscle fibres.

    When it is stretched, it sends messages to your spinal cord. When the muscle fibre reaches beyond a critical length,the spindle will fire a particular message.

    This message then goes up your nerve to the spinal cord and zooms straight back to the muscle fibre - causing it tocontract. This is the simplest feedback loop you can have.

    So Trigger Points are in fact part of aprotective mechanism your body uses to keep safe -to stop muscles being over stretched, and joints beingdamaged.

    Problems (and trigger points) happen when your musclespindle becomes sensitised - for example after your havebeen injured. It stays in this protective mode. This meansit will not allow the muscle fibre to lengthen at all and will

    cause a localised knot of spasm. This localised spasm is themyofascial trigger point.

    Trigger points cause your muscle stays in spasm - evenwhen there is no threath of damage.

    Diagram of the feedback loopbetween nerve, muscle andmuscle spindle

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    Trigger points are a misguided message. Theyre like a securityalarm thats been switched on - and hasnt been switched off.

    Switching off trigger points is therefore a matter of interrupting the spasm message your muscle spindle is sending toyour nerve. And you can do this in a pain free way by using Ischemic Pressure.

    Ischemic Pressure involves gentle increasing pressure on the trigger point. Over a few minutes, this will reset themessages to the muscle - switching off the trigger point.

    This is a pain free trigger point release - you stay just below the pain threshold while gently increasing pressure. Illgive you a link to free video on how to do shortly.

    But first, lets look at why some of the more traditional ways of relieving muscle pain that dont work if you have trig-ger points....

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    Theres stretching your muscles. This

    doesnt work because your muscles are inspasm and will continue to be in spasm untilthe trigger points are switched off.

    Stretching muscles with trigger points is justlike pulling harder on a knot - youll just makeit tighter.

    What you actually want to be doing isloosening the trigger first - after which

    stretching can be very helpful.

    Theres traditional massage. This can beslightly helpful, but only if the masseuse isactually putting pressure on the trigger points.And to do an ischemic trigger point releaseyou need to apply pressure in a very specificway.

    Then theres anti-inflammatory gels andpills. These may relieve some types of pain

    but trigger points are not in fact caused byinflammation - so these are not so effective.

    So how do you do a Trigger Point Releaseusing ischemic pressure?Stretching muscles with triggers

    doesnt help - you need to releasethe trigger first

    Traditional massage only helpsif its targeting precisely thetrigger points- and applyingischemic pressure.

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    Heres a link to a video that shows you exactly how to do ischemic trigger pointreleases.

    So thats all for now, folks.

    In the next emails, well dive deep into:

    - how to find trigger points - anywhere in your body.- more techniques to switch triggers off- how to stop triggers from coming back.

    So stay tuned and check your mailbox.

    Please feel free to share this report with friends and family- anyone you think could benefit from this knowledge.

    And if youre not already subscribed to receive more free information on trigger points - heres where to sign up.

    Best Regards,Dr Jonathan Kuttner.

    MBBCh, Dip O&G, FRNZCGP, Dip Sports Med, Dip MSM, FAFMM.

    http://treatyourtriggers.com/trigger-treatment-ischemic-pressure.htmlhttp://lifeafterpain.com/info/Trigger-Point-Manual.htmlhttp://lifeafterpain.com/info/Trigger-Point-Manual.htmlhttp://treatyourtriggers.com/trigger-treatment-ischemic-pressure.html
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    If youre reading this report, then youre probably tired of being in pain. Youre looking for a reliable, safe way to getrid of muscle pain - without expensive treatments, surgery or pain medication.

    Before you close this document and get on with your day,

    I have 3 quick questions for you:

    1.Did you know that some of the most common treatments for sore muscles actually make themWORSE?

    2.Are you aware that muscle spasms cause pain that can be felt anywhere from in your in your body -from your head down do your toes - and in fact theyre sometimes mistaken for arthritis, irritable bowl syndrome,or even toothache?

    3.Did you know that there are some simple, easy to apply techniques you can do yourself to get rid ofmuscle pain - and you can feel the initial results within minutes?

    Ill explain more in detail shortly, but first, let me tell you a story.

    It was the summer of 87, and I was a (fairly) young doctor. Id always led an active life, with lots of sport - tennis,hockey, cricket. But I always had stiff sore muscles, and Id resigned myself to the fact that this was just how I wasmade - and there didnt seem to be anything I could do about it.

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    Then, one day, a friend gave me a book on trigger points.

    Huh? I thought. What are Trigger Points? And I started to read.

    It was one of those lightbulb moments. I spent that weekend going through and finding every trigger point I could onmyself (I had loads of them,) and switching them off.

    It was the first time I was pain free - in as long as I could remember.

    Then I started to treat the people who came in to see me in my medical practise. And I met a LOT of people withtrigger points - some of whom had been in pain for years - and never knew that it was caused by trigger points.

    So I started teaching people how to find and treat their own triggers. And I saw many people get their ownlightbulb moment - the moment when they realised that they could fix themselves.

    Using just their hands - or a strategically placed tennis ball, they had everything they needed to treat their own musclepain, and get rid of triggers - for good.

    So - how is this going to help you?

    Well, if youre ready to take action and get rid of triggers for good, you can get started on the Trigger Point TreatmentCourse right now. Its the exact techniques Ive used on myself - and taught to my patients - to find, switch off andstop triggers coming back.

    Get the Treat Your Triggers Course Here

    http://treatyourtriggers.com/Trigger-Point-Course.htmlhttp://treatyourtriggers.com/Trigger-Point-Course.html
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    Jonthan Kuttner Bio

    After a serious hangliding accident above the cliffs of his home coastline,Jonathan had 6 years of chronic back pain. He had been a family doctorfor more than 20 years, but this sudden change lead him to specialise intreating people with chronic muscular and joint pain - a specialty calledMusculoskeletal Medicine.

    Having found a solution to his own pain, Jonathan now kite surfs, playstennis, does Tai Chi and plays the cello in his coastal haven in New

    Zealand.

    Jonathan also runs a clinic treating people with chronic pain four days aweek - for more details go to:

    www.kuttner.co.nz

    Hes a firm believer in the concept of Knowledge = Power. Understandingthe reason for your pain is the first and vital step to healing, and you areyour own best healer.

    He started www.LifeAfterPain.com to help people first understand, thenhelp themselves get out of the chronic pain cycle.

    More than 18,000 people visit this site monthly, and he has a growingnewletter readership - at the last check there were more than 15,000subscribers. Hundreds of people have benefitted from his online triggerpoint course, which he continues to revise and improve.

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    For more information on how to get rid of trigger points, including neck stretches,advice on posture to avoid trigger points, nutritional advice and more, go to the:

    Life After Pain Web Site

    http://lifeafterpain.com/info/http://lifeafterpain.com/info/
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