Workshop Video: What tools you can use to resolve YOUR trigger points

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Transcript

Our last chapter to cover we're in the homestretch here is getting ready to get rid of your own trigger points. And we're going to use specific tools for that. These are my tools of choice. There's a lot of them out there. But these are the ones that I like the best. This one is called a therapy cane.

And this one's pretty nifty for being able to get those spots in your back that you can't reach any other way. There's no way I'm ever gonna reach back there, you get the leverage to do a trigger point. Go all the way down right in here, and you can change the angle come in from the side and come in from the back. push it forward. Personally the trigger point, the trigger points and varies from one person to the next. If you have received trigger points therapy from a massage therapist or from a provider.

And you know that as soon as that that pain releases about 50%, then it's good. So you're, you're found a spot. You're working, you're working. So I found one right here. Pretty sure. Take a couple deep breaths.

It Relax, relax some more once it gets to 50% or less of the original pain when I started pushing into that trigger point, that's when you could move on to the new point. Does anybody want to try this? Yeah. So if you don't have a partner then do some of these. Yes, these are these are all for you to be able to do on your own. You don't need a hunger for any of these things.

I'm going to show right now. Okay, I guess I gotta get up. I don't know how to do it the chair. So if I wanted to do what you just did standing up, so you're gonna bring this around like this and get it right on one of your spots, grab onto here, okay? like this and you don't want to be right on your spine. Okay?

So if you're right on your spine, you don't want to push on a vertebrae because that's just painful. Okay, so how do you find a trigger point? Okay, and then you just know it's gonna pull on. Oh, it is. Yeah, some deep breaths. Amazing.

There you go. I'm actually feeling it start to give already. Yeah. And once it gets to about 50% you can go to another new spot that work. Yeah. Anybody else?

Huh? Come on. Who doesn't want to try to guess? Yes. No, I mean, it really was. And if you don't have real good hand strength, is you need to leverage I mean, you have to play with a little bit because you have to find the leverage points because there's a there's a bar back here that you can use to leverage The only rule is you don't want to push right down the vertebrae.

That's the only thing because it's a hard point. You're gonna burn brains. Yeah, when you put that right there, you can really freakin put it over your back. You can put it like that if you're trying to get into those areas here up here. Let everybody use it. That's a handy dandy.

Cool. And then just do the breathing. Nice deep brush. You can do the three, three and five out. didn't take long to find the spot. He usually does.

Because we've seen this before. One of those things is don't know where it is. And Susan, yeah, no. Did you know how to use it saw me a long time ago and I missed it a little bit, but never didn't get into it too much tonight, well, you have to know how many of you incorporated the breathing into it, it's great to get some of those spots in your backside that you just can't reach any other way. So the next one, this is further points that you can reach. So if you're doing trigger point release, you're sitting there having to hold it with your thumb.

Most of the time, people's hands get tired and they can't tolerate it. So you take this and you just push down on it does the same thing. And there's two different surfaces there's a lot of smaller surface and a larger surface the larger would be good for the bigger muscles and the smaller is good for the Smaller muscles. Try one trigger. Rarely, but it's a lot more comfortable for the hand for that grip. There's a lot of those types of trigger point tools.

That's my favorite because of the grip. Wow. Sometimes you don't know until you start poking around. Right. So many people carry so much attention right through not even realizing it. So bring your head up.

Asleep already. If you're, when you're doing the trigger points, this is an important thing to know. You don't want to bring their muscle to a stretch position, you want it in a sloppy position. So if you're doing it on your neck, you need to make sure your head is back so that you can get into that space. Try their neck, back line, straight down. The next one that I have is called miracle balls.

Now what I like about the miracle balls is you can get points you can get points on your backside, and you can do it while you're at rest. This one I bought before this one for some reason, they change the size they say. I know that's why I'm pointing it out. But the This is the new model. This is the old model. The way you do it.

The way you do it to start is you're going to put it right on the low back the safe from there first. You start there. And then you just let your whole bag kind of relax around it and you'll feel it relax. After that, then you put it over into the muscles of your hip area. And you just roll around on it and you'll find it doesn't take long. And then once you find one, you take some deep breaths relax and do it.

You can change it by changing the leg position. You can change it by changing your body position shifting up and around. It's a fun tool. Does anybody want to try? Would that be less effective? I don't have a bench like that.

It was done on a bed. It would be a little bit more difficult on the bed, because you're gonna sink into the bed. Wow. So what you're doing now? No. Yeah.

If you want to bend your knees, I will take some of the pressure off to take a couple deep breaths you'll feel like your back will just kind of sink around that balk. And after it sinks around the ball, then you've shifted over to the side so you get into the muscles and it won't take long to find spot a spot Anybody else wants to try and we can even find in this table with the other ball with a nice banner first and then just do some nice deep breaths. And after a couple of breaths you'll feel like you're just kind of sinks it just sinks down into it. You can't explain it any other way that they talk about now that she's somebody that goes across from a pure to eat and I know I've seen a lot of arguments They say that, you know, you can lay on it and that flusher maybe you know, it's well shoot me that information we find it okay because, yeah, it might mean I might have learned about it but I didn't realize that there was a you know what?

Right on. I've done that for hip flexor. Yeah. I've used a kettlebell to get into that hip flexor. Yeah. pretty painful.

Yeah. And as you can see, there's many other uses if you're creative. What's the difference between that are the holes from the foam roll, the foam roll, I tend to use more for strengthening and stabilization. I have people like on it for that. Or if I'll use the foam roll. If you're, if you're having a lot of pain, I would not recommend this right off the bat.

You can lay on the spine lay on this. If you have a segment that's not moving very well, you can mobilize it. So if I'm trying to mobilize my thoracic spine, I'm on the edge and I'm mobilizing that spot. That's what I use it the most. But if you're having a lot of pain, and that's not recommended. That's a that's an advanced technique.

Anybody else want to try? Twice? Come on. Okay, are you sure? Yeah. Okay.

Trojan He's wondering if we can get creative spiders, obviously, like, Is there anything that you get that I could put over the bed, so when the ball would sink, I'm trying to think creatively about some, maybe a piece of plywood with a yoga mat. I do have a yoga mat. When you would want to just use a piece of plywood That's hard. But a yoga mat on top of that would soften that a little bit. Okay, for a rod. If you don't have a yoga mat, you can use a rug.

But you need like a piece of plywood or something because you want something that's firm enough. I mean, this has some gifts, right? But if you're on a bed, it's gonna sink all the way down to the bed and you're not going to get any leverage. You can still try it and see any other anybody else. Okay. The last one.

This is a half ball. This isn't as good for the low back. But it's really good for anything up here. If you're getting any issues up here, this isn't in the book, this is just an extra. So the way I use this is I'll put it right up. It doesn't have quite as much give as that.

But we'll get right into those ribs, and then you can just kind of move around on it to get your specific trigger points. But anybody who wants to try that so they can see the difference between the two. What about a tennis ball? A lot of people like tennis balls. I'm not a huge fan, they're a little bit harder. The tennis ball is about as hard as that but bigger.

So I like these because they're softer and more comfortable. Is that something you can actually put on your spine or not a good idea. You probably could put that on your knees you can definitely put on your spine without a problem that you might be able to get away because it's got a little bit of cushion Yeah, I put it right next to the spine on the redheads because I have issues right in here between my shoulder blades in my ribs get really stuck. So I use it for the ribs, which isn't necessarily low back pain, but it is baffling. Anybody else wants that? Okay.

All right, this is the tail end here. So the learning points for this chapter. As muscles adjust to new movement patterns they're going to attend to develop trigger points, which I've covered that pretty extensively throughout the whole workshop today. trigger points are basically tight muscles and they're very specific in their locations and they're because muscles are trying to strengthen and keep up with all their neighbors. trigger points can be uncomfortable and it would be beneficial if you could use tools daily to get rid of them and help facilitate the This whole restructuring process that your body is going through before using any of these tools, it might be beneficial for you to have at least one treatment from a provider so that you know how to do it based off of what they're doing on you and how your body responds. Three federal actually four effective tools to alleviate your trigger points is the therapy cane which is the first one that jack Navara which is looks like a jack put away or any the miracle balls and then you've got the half ball says half balls.

Nobody has any questions. That was the end right there. Thank you. Thank you. Lots of really good information. Thank you.

Anybody have any comments, questions? Good he'll pick up a lot of new tricks. Ideas Yeah. Good. Thank you. And thanks for their dormant in your life and you really never use them and and then when you hear about it more and see results you want to activate it like the magnesium I have that in my cupboard I never use it.

Yeah, I heard about it. Well, you heard about some Yeah. That no What else? Oh the tapping? Yeah, yeah I was told to do it I never started. Good.

I'm glad everything wasn't completely new mercola.com they have the they have the tapping in there and they give a demonstration of it. I think like a video. Mine is a little bit abbreviated. They might go through points specific points on the on the fingers and another really common point is right here underneath the brass and One One times women are comfortable with being like this, right? And so I just, I just took, I just took it out because I'd rather people feel completely comfortable with every with as much as they can think like, okay, some people can do it this way and some people can do I just took it out, right and then the video it's like, Am I tapping in the right area? It's just the simpler, the better.

And I am all about simplification as well as well. Yeah, because you can get lost in the technique. But the basic where you need to start, you don't need to start in a mass level, you need to start at the beginning. And if you want to advance it at that point, after that you can, but you don't have to. Okay, thank you.

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