PainPatterns.com
Title
PainPatterns.com: Understanding and Treating Pain without Drugs
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- About Trigger Points
- WHAT IS A TRIGGER POINT? A trigger point is a highly sensitive nodule in an unusually taut band of skeletal muscle. It normally occurs near the middle of the fiber at the motor end plate junction (where the motor nerve contacts the muscle). This nodule is a knot of contracted sarcomeres, that is, an area where many sarcomeres bunch closely together, leaving the sarcomeres in the rest of the fiber stretched out, which causes the tension. Although "trigger point" may not initially strike the reader as a term of science, the condition is now well-characterized and the term is accepted in medical texts.
