Frozen Shoulder Trigger Points

Trigger points are painful areas of hypersensitivity with muscle tissue. They often accompany a frozen shoulder and make the condition even more painful than it already is. These trigger points go through flare-up phases and can feel like your neck muscles or muscles of the upper back are tied in knots. There is relief for those trigger points - namely "trigger point massage". This involves using a hard, knobby instrument or one's knuckles to apply deep tissue pressure over the hypersensitive area. This will "release" the trigger point if done with enough force over time. Most people do not have the strength or endurance to perform this type of massage on another. The answer to this problem is the "knobber" which is a commercially available product designed to take the effort out of giving a trigger point massage. An excellent trigger point massage can be performed independently with a "Theracane". This ingenious device is shaped like a candy cane with knobby projections coming out from the side. This in conjunction with frozen shoulder exercise can make life much more bearable during a frozen shoulder.

A theracane is described and can be purchased at Frozen Shoulder Therapy on Squidoo.com