Do your muscles feel tight? Do you have constant aches and pains?

• It’s Most Of Your Body

Since over 60% of your body is nerve, muscle, and bone, it should come to no surprise that chronic pain, strain, spasm, irritation, inflammation, trigger points or other neuro-musculo-skeletal (nerve-muscle-bone) conditions are so common.

• How Do You Feel In The Morning?

Do your muscles feel “tight” in the morning? Do you frequently feel the need to stretch or have constant aches and pains in your neck, low back and hips? Do you feel old and stiff with morning fatigue, sleeping problems and many tender spots (Trigger Points)?

• Trigger Points

Trigger points are tender, sensitive areas that when pressed, stuck, heated or cooled can be exquisitely painful. You may first discover trigger points when you are surprised by someone pressing a seemingly pain-free area. Trigger point pain may also be felt in other areas of the body. Trigger points are common in chronic muscle spasm, pain, inflammation, fibrositis, strain and sprain, and other muscle and joint problems.

• Do Injections & Physical Therapy Work?

For standard medicine, how to best deal with the symptoms of muscle spasm, trigger points, and similar problems is a mystery. Medical treatments such as novocane, procaine and xylocaine injections; cooling sprays; muscle relaxant drugs; cortisone injections; and other drugs have been tried with mixed results. Heat massage and other modalities have had limited success.

• The Chiropractic Approach

Those suffering from muscle spasm, trigger points, neuromuscular pain and problems, fibromyalgia and similar symptoms are seeing chiropractors in record numbers because they are getting results. For example, in one study five men and eighteen women, aged 11 to 76 with chronic fatigue syndrome, trigger point pain and fibromyalgia, who had been suffering from 2 to 35 years, began chiropractic care. After a series of spinal adjustments, every patient was able to resume normal activities including full time work and maintained their improvements one year later at follow-up. The authors of the study write:”Improvement in symptoms of 92-100% was achieved in both these syndromes...”

In another study, 45.9% of those with trigger points, muscle pain and fibromyalgia experienced moderate to great improvement under chiropractic care while antidepressant medication benefited 36.3% and exercise helped 31.8%. In another study, 60% of patients had at least a 50% reduction in pain symptoms with chiropractic. Similar results were found with those suffering from fribromyalgia and neck pain with tender/Trigger points, numbness and tingling.

• Subluxations

Chiropractors locate and correct subluxations, tiny distortions in your spinal column and structural system, that damage nerves, muscles, fascia, meninges and other tissues.

The Red Wing Chiropractic Clinic corrects subluxations and uses ultrasound and acupuncture to successfully treat chronic muscle pain and trigger points.

If you’re looking for more information or have problems with muscle pains or trigger points, turn to Red Wing Chiropractic Clinic PA. Call (651) 388-8294 to schedule a consultation or visit the website to learn more about our services.