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Jul 26, 2022 · A trigger point injection can help soothe myofascial pain, especially in your neck, shoulder, arms, legs and lower back. Trigger points are painful “knots” in your muscles that can be very sensitive to touch/pressure. They may form after acute trauma or by repetitive micro-trauma, leading to stress on muscle fibers.
Mar 8, 2022 · Trigger point injection (TPI) may be an option for treating pain in some patients. TPI is a procedure used to treat painful areas of muscle that contain trigger points, or knots of muscle that ...
Mar 21, 2023 · According to a 2021 review of studies on trigger point injections for neck pain, the most common side effects of trigger point injections are: bleeding. bruising. tenderness at the injection site ...
Dec 24, 2019 · While trigger point injections rarely cause serious complications, they can lead to: infection at the injection site. bruising. muscle or nerve damage. rarely, air or gas accumulating in the space ...
Jul 24, 2023 · Myofascial trigger points are focal "knots" located in a taut band of skeletal muscle first described by Dr. Janet Travell in 1942. Trigger points may be formed after acute trauma or by repeated micro-trauma, leading to stress on muscle fibers. Trigger point injections are a therapeutic modality to treat myofascial trigger points, especially in ...
- Claudia Hammi, Jeremy D. Schroeder, Brent Yeung
- 2023/07/24
- 2021
Jan 5, 2024 · Shots, also called injections, into trigger points. A shot of a numbing medicine or a steroid into a trigger point can help relieve pain. OnabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) also might be used. Dry needling. In some people, just putting the needle into the trigger point helps break up the muscle tension. This is called dry needling.
Dec 12, 2022 · A trigger point injection is used to treat a trigger point in your muscle. The injection has numbing medication. This can be a local anesthetic, a corticosteroid (KOR-tih-koh-STAYR-oyd), or a mixture of both. A local anesthetic is a medication that numbs an area of your body. A corticosteroid is a medication that helps reduce swelling and ...
