Clinic Services

MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINT 
THERAPY EXPLAINED

Our staff has a combined 85 years of clinical experience in eliminating pain and muscle problems with Trigger Point Therapy! We are a consumer-oriented, hands-on clinic that caters to a wide variety of musculoskeletal challenges. It should come as no surprise that we have considerable experience eliminating pain and maximizing muscle function in all areas of pain.


Mary Biancalana, and our Board Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy staff, then complete a full trigger point assessment and uses clinical reasoning to develop a treatment plan customized to each person. We can treat many musculoskeletal conditions and here are just a few listed below.

Our Services


  • Area-specific Pain: Lower Back, Shoulder, Knee (patellar tracking syndrome), Frozen Shoulder, Carpal Tunnel Pain, Hand pain, headaches, bottom of foot (plantar fasciitis), Hip Pain (bursitis), Neck Pain (stiff neck, torticollis), Heel Pain (heel spurs), Thigh pain (sciatica type pain down the leg) tendonitis, bursitis, (shin splints) pain at the front of the shin, runners heel, migraine type head pain, pain from contusion, or fall, or car accident, aching pain from old sports injuries.
  • Broad-area Muscle Problems: Fibromyalgia, Osteo arthritis, Muscle Fatigue, Reduction in Muscle Strength, Reduction in Balance
  • Sports-related Disorders: golfer’s elbow, swimmer’s shoulder, runner’s heel, tennis elbow, shin splints, soccer toe, pitcher’s arm, general sports pain, pain or injuries due to working out, weight training, CrossFit, cycling related challenges, rollerblade injuries, aching pain due to sports injuries from long ago.
  • Event-focused Goals: Treatment in preparation for marathons, triathlons, sports tournaments, cycling, increased walking with upcoming vacations, charity walks
  • Neuropathy/Neuropathic Pain: Many doctor specialize in assessment and treatment of neuropathic pain caused by diabetes, post cancer treatment, small fiber neuropathy, or adult onset neuropathy.
  • Trigger Point Injections: A nurse practitioner or medical doctor can follow the trigger point therapy protocol to inject specific muscles with a non-steroid anti-inflammatory agent. This allows the muscles to more quickly relax and allows the myofascial trigger point therapist to provide more effective hands on treatment.

To effectively combat these issues, the trigger point providers will offer a full suite of services and products, including:

  • Comprehensive medical assessment
  • Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy for Pain Relief
  • Empowering self-care activities to do at home / work
  • Workplace adaptations
  • Functional strength training for balance and home activities
  • Functional Personal Training
  • Dynamic Function group fitness classes
  • Yoga
  • Sport-specific, functional athlete assessment
  • Professional seminars for CE hours
  • Community workshops and classes

WHY CHOOSE US

Myofascial Trigger Point therapists work to support medical practitioners and specific condition-based outcomes in at least three ways.

  1. By being a good resource for the drug-free, least invasive and least expensive option. We look for the possibility of soft tissue/trigger points being a source or contributor to the patient’s pain or dysfunction. If it is found that the treatment at our clinic can or does eliminate the pain or symptoms, then no further surgical or testing measures need to be taken.


2. By supporting pre operative or post-procedure support. If surgical/procedural intervention was deemed necessary, our manual trigger point therapy can be a post –operative support to help achieve post-op healing and fascial health along with full range of motion and strength.

3.  By providing home-applied self-care techniques to sustain progress.  Regular myofascial therapy treatments can help the patient retain a high level of pain-free function, even into a high level of exercise or sports participation.

TREATMENT APPROACH

We strive to make you feel comfortable and well-informed throughout the entire treatment process, from your initial visit, to home care education training, to complete recovery and release from our care. In fact, our treatment approach can be broken down into four easy-to-follow steps:

Click here to see a video explaining our unique and effective approach to eliminating your pain

1. Assessment


We undertake a comprehensive history, or review of your current physical condition and identify the most probable muscles harboring Myofascial Dysfunction and Trigger Points. Using the easy to follow road map provided to us by Drs. Travell and Simons’ research, we are able to identify the SOURCE of your pain and not just chase the pain. We know, thanks to the research by Dr Janet Travell and Dr David Simons, that muscles when harboring trigger points, can be weak, can hurt, can lose endurance for activities. These trigger points also create specific “Referral Patterns” that have been researched and documented. Our team uses these “Road Maps” to get to the SOURCE of your pain and muscle problems.

2. Causes

Through a detailed history, we uncover key perpetuating factors that need to be changed in order to fully eliminate your muscle problems and pain; such as: hyperpronation at the feet, poor work/sleep postures, poor diet, lack of adequate water, high stress levels, leg length discrepancies, Hypermobility, chronic muscle tension, poor neck posture while texting or gaming.

3. Treatment


Using our Hands-on Trigger Point Therapy Protocol, we treat and eliminate muscular dysfunction and reduce and eliminate pain caused by myofascial dysfunction and trigger points. This includes the use of relaxing heat, percussion, advanced trigger point massage therapy techniques, range of motion, neuromuscular re-education. All of these things allow you to learn how to better relax unnecessary muscle tension and reduce your pain. Our goal is to return your muscles to normal resting length and restore full function.  Our team incorporates trigger point myofascial release, stretching, and Trigger Point Injections as part of our full treatment protocol.

4.Education

We believe “Education is Power”. As advocates of empowerment through self-treatment training, we teach our clients what to do at home and at work to prevent the problem from returning, and thereby allowing you to maintain a high level of pain-free function as well as a high sports-performance level. Our YouTube channel has dozens of useful videos for you to watch at home, to guide you to replicate what we worked on in-clinic. Click here to go to our YouTube channel 

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