MyoMatters
The Myotherapy Association Australia began life as Myotherapy Association of Victoria. As an emerging health profession, the popularity of myotherapy as a valuable career pathway in health sciences meant the association quickly identified the need for graduates and practitioners nationally for peak body representation. Today, the Myotherapy Association Australia are Australia’s only industry association dedicated solely to the needs of myotherapists and myotherapy profession. In essence, myotherapists help people in pain to move better and live their best life.
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EP 31: Trigger points: Are they the chicken or the egg in chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome ? with Jay Shah
This podcast covers all things about trigger points, chronic pain and MPS. In particular we talk about the role of trigger points and are they the chicken or the egg in chronic MPS? We talk with Jay Shah, a Physiatrist and Clinical Investigator from Washington DC in the USA. We will cover the key objective, reproducible and quantifiable muscle tissue properties of trigger points that clinicians can use in their clinic to effectively identify and treat myofascial trigger points and MPS.
We will also cover some of Jay’s fascinating history of his journey to studying trigger points, what led him to this areas of clinic research and what his favourite neurotransmitter is.