Pain Erasure

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication Page......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Note to the Reader......Page 12
Foreword......Page 13
1: Most People Don't Have to Suffer Pain......Page 16
What Myotherapy Is, Its Medical Origins, and How It Erases Pain......Page 18
2: To Erase Pain, Erase Trigger Points......Page 22
What a Trigger Point Is and How It Functions......Page 23
The Major Causes of Trigger Points......Page 24
How a Stressful Climate Triggers Pain......Page 27
Some By-Products of Pain......Page 28
Importance of a Healthy Climate in Warding Off Pain......Page 29
Why Myotherapy Works......Page 30
How Do You Get Started?......Page 31
The	Technique for Applying Pressure......Page 32
How to Make a Trigger Point Map......Page 34
Know Your Subject's History......Page 37
Myotherapy Success Score with Chronic Pain: To Date, 95 Percent......Page 39
Odyssey of a Backache Sufferer......Page 41
How to Erase Lower Back Pain......Page 45
Side-Lying Stretch Exercise......Page 47
Cross-Leg Stretch......Page 48
Erasing Trigger Points from the "Belt" Area......Page 49
The Limbering Series......Page 51
5: Rid Yourself of Headaches and Jaw Pain......Page 54
Some Theories on the Causes of Migraines......Page 55
Other Kinds of Headache......Page 61
Check for Abnormalities......Page 62
Myotherapy Record: 95 Percent Success......Page 63
"Head-Hunting" in Search of Pain......Page 65
Erasing Trigger Points Around the Eyes......Page 66
Erasing Trigger Points Around the Nose and Cheekbones......Page 67
Trigger Point Erasure Around the Ears......Page 68
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction: A Pain in the Jaw......Page 71
Jaw Pain Plus Head Pain (Continued)......Page 75
Trigger Point Erasure Around the Neck......Page 78
Stretch and Resistance Exercise for Neck......Page 80
Arthritis Strikes Nearly Everyone......Page 82
Splinting and Substitution......Page 84
Prevalence of Arthritis by Occupation......Page 85
The Types of Arthritis......Page 87
Medication and Arthritis......Page 92
Case Histories of Arthritics Helped by Myotherapy......Page 95
The Classic Greek Foot......Page 103
What Modern Medicine Has in Its Little Black Bag for Arthritics......Page 106
Shoulder-Pain Syndrome......Page 111
The Thread-Needle Stretch......Page 113
Trigger Points in the Lower Legs......Page 114
Lower-Leg Stretch......Page 115
Trigger Points in the Upper Legs......Page 116
Flexibility Bounces To The Side With Shoulder Drop......Page 118
Groin Stretch......Page 119
Help for Painful Knees......Page 122
Stretch for the Outside of the Leg......Page 124
Stretch for Lower Leg plus Stiff and Painful Ankles......Page 125
Foot Massage and Exercises......Page 126
The Chest Muscles and Pain......Page 130
Clearing Trigger Points from the Chest Muscles......Page 132
Snap and Stretch Exercise for the Latissimus Dorsi......Page 134
Pain in the Arms and Hands......Page 135
The Arm......Page 136
Shoulder Rotations......Page 137
Exercises for the Hand......Page 139
Athletes, Weekend Sportsmen, and Their Pains......Page 140
Immediate Mobilization......Page 143
Seeking Massag......Page 147
Fibrositis Massage......Page 150
What's So Different Today?......Page 152
Sports During Pregnancy......Page 157
Exercises to Do During Pregnancy......Page 159
Why Your Baby Needs Myotherapy......Page 161
The Baby Who Arrived in a Hurry......Page 163
The Baby Who Couldn't Stand Up......Page 165
Trigger Point Erasure in Babies......Page 166
The Value of Exercises with Baby......Page 167
The Exercises......Page 169
Seeking Massage for Babies......Page 172
Massage and Myotherapy for Prevention......Page 176
We Can Counteract Deterioration......Page 178
How to Survive a Hospital......Page 181
Bed Ballet......Page 185
Hopeless Cases? We Don't Believe It......Page 190
10: To Ward Off Pain-Test Your Fitness, Improve Your Fitness......Page 208
The Tests......Page 210
Correctives for the K-W Abdominal Tests......Page 214
Corrective for the K-W Psoas Test......Page 215
Corrective for the K-W Back and Hamstring Flexibility Test......Page 216
Your Basic Fitness Prograin to Keep Pain Away......Page 217
Relax......Page 231
One Last Reminder......Page 232
Afterword......Page 234
Appendixe 1. Muscle and Skeletal Plates of the Human Body......Page 248
Appendixe 2. Table of Pains and Other Symptoms, Giving Areas of the Body Harboring Related Trigger Points......Page 272
Appendixe 3. Table of Occupations and Related Pain Hazards......Page 276
Appendixe 4. Table of Sports and Related Pain Hazards......Page 279
Sources......Page 281
Index......Page 284
About the Author......Page 288