TMJ--help/trigger point info

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I have a question for massage therapists as well as a question about a book

that was recommended.

 

Quick background. My husband has fibromyalgia and myofacia pain syndrome.

Many of the symptoms he gets are directly related to muscle groups that have

seized up and then affect other muscle groups. The affected muscles can be

smooth muscles around organs as well as striated skeletal muscles. Because

of the wide range of symptoms it is sometimes difficult to determine if it

really is a muscle situation or something else and also where the original

muscle group culprits are. I mean, there have been times when his heart

muscle was affected by a back muscle and it created arithmias. He has spent

a day and a half with his stomach constantly contracting (throwing up) and

it was caused by an abdominal muscle that he strained when lifting

something. Following this?

 

I have the trigger point charts and consider them wonderful, but does this

book or any book link specific symptoms to specific trigger points besides

pain in an area like the charts? I am also very curious if massage

therapists are taught on this level - perhaps yes? I know doctors have no

clue. The symptoms are tricksters.

Monica Grubb

 

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This book is what helped me get rid of several problem areas in my body,

including what was once diagnosed as " TMJ " . Note that I found the book at

the

library - so you might want to see if yours has it first so you can try it

out

before you buy. I found it able to get rid of several problems in several

places in my body, all of which allopaths had either told me to " live with "

or

who'd given me horrid anti-inflamatory drugs that simply hurt one part of

your

body to " save " (bandaid) another. Even better, most things I got relief for

in

a few days. Some things took me as long as several weeks. Note this book is

NOT about acupressure or the like - it's actually based medical research,

but

ignored by allopaths because it's something you can do for yourself (and

don't

have to pay them for). Here's an amazon link, just so you can see the book

for

yourself first:

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572243759/sr=8-1/qid=1143211782/ref=pd_bbs_1/1\

02-2800835-8373761?%5Fencoding=UTF8

 

Good luck! And let me know if I can help with more info!

 

Jent

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Monica,

I posted a

long post about auto-immune diseases and how nutrition and lifestyle principles

can help tremendously. I have used this with clients and family members and the

results are astounding. Not sure if you got those posts weeks ago. If you did

not, repost and I will try to find it for you.

 

As for the

massage or visceral (organ massage), I have found this very helpful for people

with any type of auto-immune disorder. For one, it does get rid of any trigger

points (which are areas of scar tissue from some type of stress in his life).

As well, it helps alleviate ischemia (lack of blood flow), increase oxygen in

the muscles and toxins out of the muscles, thus creating a natural flow of out

with the bad and in with the good.

 

As for the

visceral massage, this works wonders as well. The visceral system actually

borrows all of its sensory nerves from the somatic (muscle) system. So most

think when you get a pain it is a muscle, but what people don’ t realize

it is an organ that is using the muscle to wave the red flag. Example: the

small intestine when it is inflamed (as well as the liver), etc it refers visceromotor

and sensory patterns to the low back. Intersting huh! So is low back pain,

instability, disc problems, etc secondary to movement or organ trouble? It is

the organ that creates the instability, etc that puts you at risk for injury.

 

For these

specific types of massage, what I would do would be to call these organizations

to find a skilled practitioner in your area. Where are you located I might know

of one? The charts are great and I use them, but they are for practitioners

that know anatomy. You need to know the origin and insertion of a muscle, etc.

It is not just about rubbing, etc.

 

www.stjohnseminars.com (ask if there

is a CNMT in your area that has NMT 6-visceral one, as well or just the

visceral one)

 

www.upledger.com (ask for either one, a

massage or visceral manipulation practitioner)

 

www.activerelease.com (this just

stretches the facia, but it can be useful)

 

 

 

With Qi,

Joshua

Rubin, OTR/L

 

You must

BE, before you DO!

-OSHO