📝Trigger Point Therapy is focused pressure on tender points in taut bands of muscle that can refer sensation to another region of the body.
Janet Travell and David Simons described a trigger point as a hyperirritable spot in a palpable 📝taut band. Compression of an active point reproduces a familiar ache, often at a distance from the spot itself — a classic example is a point in the upper shoulder referring into the head. Latent points hurt mainly when pressed. The maps of referral are characteristic enough that the sore place the client names is not always where the practitioner works.
Treatment uses sustained or slowly increasing pressure on the point, sometimes with the client's breath or a small active resistance as in 📝Resisted Soft-Tissue Release, until the tenderness eases and the band softens. Pressure stays inside tolerance; ischemic force is not required. The method is bodywork for local and referred muscular discomfort, not a diagnosis of disease and not an injection protocol.
Trigger-point work is most useful when a small, specific nodule is driving a wider complaint. After the point quiets, broader strokes such as 📝Deep Tissue Massage help the region reintegrate so the guarding does not simply migrate.