Trigger point injections may help relieve chronic muscle pain, including pain in your neck. These injections target “knots” in your muscles called trigger points that can cause pain, stiffness, and ...

Trigger point injections can help treat some forms of chronic muscle pain. After your injections, you may experience some mild tenderness or soreness, but you can go back to your normal activities ...

Trigger points can arise from stress, anxiety, and even vitamin deficiencies. So how can they be treated? This thermal image of the body highlights a region that contains common trigger points. We don ...

If you struggle with aching pain that affects your ability to play golf, finding—and releasing—trigger points could be the key to relieving your pain. Back pain, neck pain, knee pain, elbow pain, and ...

Trigger points, a.k.a. “knots,” are tender, palpable spots that can hamper your mobility and often radiate pain to other areas of the body. Beyond messing with your running, they can make everyday ...

You know when you’re gliding over a foam roller and all of a sudden, you hit that sweet spot—and by sweet, we mean teeth-grinding, stomach-clenching sore spot? That’s not just a sore spot, that’s a ...

Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a common yet often misunderstood condition characterized by trigger points within the muscles or fascia (a type of connective tissue), leading to either acute or ...