Fitness Mad Massage Ball Set

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A massage ball’s density will determine how intense of a massage it provides along with the size of the ball. The size of ball you buy will determine where it can be used. A small massage ball won't be much use if you're looking to massage larger muscle groups like your quads, glutes or shoulders, but it could ease tension in smaller areas, like in the balls of your feet. Strength Even atheists should be familiar with the Bible & every professional should have a copy of these books, despite theirflaws.

For your feet, you may even be able to use a golf ball! These are at the more extreme end of hardness as compared to a soft, trigger point therapy tennis ball. They won’t be suitable for many other trigger points, apart from your feet. Many massage balls come with warranties that allow you to essentially try out a ball before committing to purchasing it. This is a review of massage therapy for fibromyalgia that epitomizes the “garbage in, garbage out” problem with meta-analysis: there was virtually no research on this topic worth analyzing to begin with, and trying to pool the results of several weak studies is meaningless. To the extent that the study results are generally inconclusive and ambiguous, the conclusions of any review are going to have more to do with the authors’ opinions and biases than hard data. In this case, they report “significant” positive results without mentioning that they only mean “statistically significant,” and the effect size is barely-there — clinically insignificant. They also boast about traditional Chinese massage in the abstract, which is odd. And they fail to note that much of the data did not even measure the effect on pain, just mood. So here’s my conclusion: whoop-de-doo. There’s really nothing here, except maybe massage for fibromyalgia being damned by faint, ambiguous praise. Commenting on two fascinating 2008 research papers ( Chen and Shah), Dr. David Simons wrote, “Currently, consideration of the possibility of a myofascial trigger point component of the pain complaint is commonly not effectively included in the differential diagnosis and therefore is missed cold turkey, which can be very expensive for the health care system (expensive examinations looking for a phantom diagnosis) and disastrous to the patient (wrong diagnosis, wrong treatment).”

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Thank you for delivering information about trigger points and resulting pain in a manner that is understandable to the general public. While I am a Physical Therapist most everything I read or listen to automatically gets translated into a more scientific jargon. This helps me to relay the message to my clients. If you are looking for information on different types of massage balls, what they can be used for and the best massage balls for specific conditions then please take a look at our Massage Balls Buyer's Guide or visit our Massage balls section for a list of all our products American Society of Pain Educators ( ASPE) [PRO] — A nonprofit organization that trains Certified Pain Educators (CPEs). A CPE educates clinical peers, patients, families, and caregivers on ways to relieve pain by the safest means possible. ASPE training is not focused on muscle pain. And, if it exists, it obviously has Interesting Implications. If muscles you didn’t even exercise can feel exhausted, it’s equally plausible that they can also suffer other consequences. Like pain. It felt like a toothache.” Trigger points mimic other problems. Many trigger points feel like something else. It is easy for an unsuspecting health professional to mistake trigger point pain for practically anything but a trigger point. For instance, muscle pain is probably more common than repetitive strain injuries (RSIs), because many so-called RSIs may actually be muscle pain. 24 A perfect example: shin splints. 25

One trigger point therapy treatment completely relieved a nasty stubborn hip pain that I'd had for five months! ” ~Jan Campbell, retired French language teacher, Palm Springs, recovered easily from several months of hip pain This is a list of resources relevant to chronic pain in general, but muscle pain in particular. I avoided publishing this section of the tutorial for many years, because I am generally not impressed by the resources available (to both patients and professionals), especially online resources. I remember a slightly testy conversation with someone from an American organization (that shall remain nameless): THEM The benefits that can be gained from doing regular massage balls exercises include increased mobility, flexibility and blood circulation.The premise of a massage ball is simple. Ultimately, it is a way to remove knots in the muscles which may cause your body to feel tight and uncomfortable. Most importantly, the rubber has never hit the road in the form of well-designed clinical trials of outcomes for patients: that is, do people actually get their pain problems solved by good quality trigger point therapy, well enough and often enough to be worth the costs? If treating trigger points works well as a therapy, then there should have been such studies more or less easily proving it many years ago — but there still aren’t. That’s a concern at this point in history.

Thank you finally to Dr. Tim Taylor, MD, who provided a great deal of the raw material that went into the original version of the book’s vital sections medical factors that perpetuate pain. Massage therapists are generally poorly educated, overconfident, and notorious for pseudoscientific beliefs (here’s a collection of outrageous examples of the bizarre things massage therapists say). Their ideas about trigger point therapy specifically are often a perfect example: simplistic, out-dated, and rather “imaginative.” This discussion between massage therapists on Facebook contains many examples that are disturbing to anyone who knows the subject matter well. It’s not just how wrong they are, it’s how confidently wrong they are. There is no clear mechanism of injury, but flare-ups often occur in response to extremes of position, exercise, or temperature. I am paying particular attention to the “balls” of my feet as I’m currently working on releasing the muscles around my bunions. A chiropractor recently told me that I can get rid of them by doing this consistently. We will see! Here’s Dr. Fred Wolfe’s technical but readable definition of fibromyalgia, from a 2013 blog post. Dr. Wolfe is a rheumatologist with a long history of expertise about trigger points and fibromyalgia:

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Massage balls are used to apply extremely firm and targeted pressure directly to the muscle for deep compression and release. Ideal for targeting small muscles such as calves, piriformis and pecs. That said, there are a few basic features you should look for when determining whether a specific massage ball is right for you. Upgrade: Today I dug much deeper into the idea that trigger points are a kind of “injury,” especially an overuse injury. I am quite pleased with this update — genuinely interesting stuff. [Updated section: Other ideas about the nature of the beast.] Basic Trigger Point Therapy (Mostly Self-Massage) — What can you do about garden variety trigger points?

There are many possible causes of unexplained aches and pains, but trigger points are an interesting piece of the puzzle for many people, and offer some potential for relief. What’s more, is that most of them are cheap yet will provide benefits much greater than their initial costs. More info: Added some context about trigger point therapy as a “modality” to introduce the section. [Updated section: Types of therapists and doctors and their relationship to trigger point therapy.]Smith DR. Prevalence and Distribution of Musculoskeletal Pain Among Australian Medical Students. Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain. 2007 Aug 29;15(4).