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Recommended Reading

Clincical Books:

Travell & Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction The Trigger Point Manual, Volume 1: Upper Half of Body

Travell & Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction The Trigger Point Manual, Volume 2: Lower Half of Body

Clinical Mastery in the Treatment of Myofascial Pain by Lucy Whyte Ferguson, DC and Robert Gerwin, MD

The Manual of Trigger Point and Myofascial Therapy by Dimitrios Kostopoulos, PT, PhD

Muscle Pain – Understanding Its Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment by Siegfried Mense, Dr. Med, David G Simons, MD, IJ Russell, MD, PhD

Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain by Florence Kendall, PT, FAPTA, Elizabeth McCreary, Patricia Provance, PT, Mary Rodgers, PT, PhD, William Romani, PT, PhD

**Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia, 2nd Edition – Trigger Point Management by Edward S. Rachlin, MD, FACS and Isabel Rachlin, PT**

Clinical Articles:

Simons, DG 2004 Review of Enigmatic MTrPs as a Common Cause of Enigmatic Musculoskeletal Pain and Dysfunction

Simons, DG 2002 Understanding Effective Treatments of Myofascial Trigger Points

Simons, DG, Travell JG 1983 Myofascial Origins of Low Back Pain 1. Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment

Simons, DG, Travell JG 1983 Myofascial Origins of Low Back Pain 2. Torso Muscles

Simons, DG, Travell JG 1983 Myofascial Origins of Low Back Pain 3. Pelvic and Lower Extremity Muscles

Shah, JP 2005 An In-Vivo Microanalytical Technique for Measuring the Local Biochemical Milieu of Human Skeletal Muscle

Self Care Books:

Winners’ Guide to Pain Relief by Hal Blatman, MD

When Movement Hurts: A Self-Help Manual for Treating Trigger Points by Barbara J. Headley, PT, MSc, EMS

Pain Erasure by Bonnie Prudden

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