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Use these effective muscle compression, stretch and movement techniques to restore your muscles back to their natural and full function.
 
Did you know that each muscle has 3-12 other muscles that can refer pain to it? 

Where does it hurt?  Find the number of your painful area and select that number on the right to learn which muscles might be causing the pain and which self-care techniques deactivate trigger points in those muscles.

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1) Vertex Pain
2) Temporal Headache Pain
3) Frontal Headache Pain
4) Back-of-Head Pain
5) Eye and Eyebrow Pain
6) Ear and Temporomandibular Joint Pain
7) Cheek and Jaw Pain
8) Toothache Pain
9) Throat & Front-of-Neck Pain
10) Back-of-Neck Pain
11) Upper-Thoracic Back Pain
12) Mid-Thoracic Back Pain
13) Font-of-Chest Pain
14) Side-of-Chest Pain
15) Low Thoracic Back Pain
17) Abdominal Pain
18) Buttock Pain
19) Pelvic Pain
20) Iliosacral Pain
21) Lateral Thigh & Hip Pain
22) Anterior Thigh Pain
23) Posterior Thigh Pain
24) Medial Thigh Pain
25) Lateral Knee Pain
26) Anterior Knee Pain
27) Posterior Knee Pain
28) Anteromedial Knee Pain
29) Lateral Leg Pain
30) Anterior Leg Pain
31) Posterior Leg Pain
32) Lateral Ankle Pain
33) Anterior Ankle Pain
34) Posterior Ankle Pain
35) Medial Ankle Pain
36) Heel Pain
37) Dorsal Forefoot Pain
38) Plantar Midfoot Pain
39) Dorsal Lesser Toe Pain
40) Dorsal Great Toe Pain
41) Metatarsal Head Pain
42) Plantar Great Toe Pain
43) Plantar Lesser Toe Pain
44) Front-of-Shoulder Pain
45) Back-of-Shoulder Pain
46) Front-of-Arm Pain
47) Back-of-Arm Pain
48) Lateral Epicondylar Pain
49) Antecubital Pain
50) Olecranon Pain
51) Medial Epicondylar Pain
52) Radial Forearm Pain
53) Volar Forearm Pain
54) Dorsal Forearm Pain
55) Ulnar Forearm Pain
56) Base-of-Thumb Pain & Radial Hand Pain
57) Volar Wrist & Palmar Pain
58) Dorsal Wrist & Hand Pain
59) Volar Finger Pain
60) Dorsal Finger Pain

 
Self-Care Treatment Protocol for All Muscles
 
Step 1:  Warm-Up
This term, in a general context can be anything you do to provide blood flow and oxygen to the muscles.  It is very important because it prepares your muscles to be stretched.  Shoulder Trigger Point Pillows, Fomentak hot water bags, a warm bath, hot tub spa or a warm shower can be used to provide heat to the affected areas.
 
Step 2:  Compression
In this segment, we use appropriate self-care tools to compress or "press on" the muscles.  We can use backnobbers, jacknobbers, body therapy balls, tennis balls or foam rollers.  It is important after you have performed general rolling, that you look for and treat any specific hard or painful spots.  Keep the tool/ball on the area and breathe slowly (approx. 2-3 breaths) and focus on being relaxed.  Visualize the muscles becoming more relaxed, healthy, stretched and less painful.
 
Step 3:  Stretch
Now that our muscles are properly warmed up and have been compressed, they are ready to be gently stretched amd encouraged to return to their normal resting length and function.  For this segment, we can use the large exer-balls, pillows, wall areas and the general pull of gravity to elicit the stretch in the muscles. 
 
Step 4:  Range of Movement
When we perform full range of movement, we take the muscles into their full stretch and full contraction.  We perform movements that allow muscles to do the jobs that they were intended to do, and we move in many different directions and angles.

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