Trigger Points QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide (QuickStudy Academic)

Nice teaching item.

Very detailed

I purchased this Reference Guide so that I would have a visual guide to help me locate the pressure points to relieve the pain in my husband shoulders.

Informative

This is a great chart that can affect your dreams if you let it. Very detailed to the point of "wow, I almost didn't want to know all this."For aches and pains it comes in handy to try to find which muscles to rub and how they interconnect. I've found that even though a pain may come from one area, it can be caused by a bunched up muscle a ways away. In other words, even though the pain is here, doesn't mean rubbing here will help. . .Another great resource for dealing with muscle pains is "Trigger Point Therapy." Get it - you won't be disappointed.

I use this chart in conjunction with a Trigger Point book by Clare Davies,- a tera cane,- and a 36 inch foam roller. The chart helps me find the muscle area I am looking for after identifying the pain origin from the Trigger Point book.There are procedures in the book that can be used to relieve the pain by using your hands and fingers, and the tera cane is very helpful in applying pressure to back areas which you cannot reach yourself. Finally just lying on the foam roller for about 5-8 minutes can take away an amazing amount of discomfort that probably is equal to what you would get from a chiropractor. There is a lot of self help on the internet and a huge amount of positive support for these items so goggle them and look up the reliable information.These items are all available on the Amazon websites if you want to familiarize yourself with these products. I personally am not affiliated with Amazon - I am just a customer who finds Amazon a great place to shop and I pay a lot of attention to the reviews to help me make a buying / or not buying decision.

I already know the pain referral patterns pretty well but it was still a little confusing showing people with all the overlapping which points had which patterns. It would have been so easy to make each pattern a different color or even just put a different color around the pattern shape and match it to the text. And because it's laminated I can't color it myself. I also find the patterns a little skimpy. In my own experience and in a few of the books, I've found more areas for some of the points than the chart indicates but since patterns differ from person to person anyway it would be impossible to create a truly accurate map. This is still good to use for showing a client how the points work and where to hunt if you have pain in a certain area but I don't think I would have wasted the money if I had seen it first. I will probably give it away and go back to showing people out of the trigger point work book. (Either The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition or Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch or even The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns and Stretching, 1e if you want to go more in depth.)

I liked that it was sturdy and the illustration was very detailed. Can easily mount it on the wall. It is also portable, because it folds in half, making it a convenient size.