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My doc wants me to get a series of these for neck pain prior to my PT appointments. Has anyone had these done? My understanding is they consist of Marcaine, and sometimes an anti inflammatory.
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Someone recently started a thread with this question.
There was alot of good info - try doing a search.
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I have had several neural therapy injections (trigger points) with procaine and homeopathics such as Solidago, Traumeel, and others. I think some of them have been helpful in terms of supporting detox, etc. and have seen others feel like they helped for pain as well.
I've had spine injections, tonsil, umbilicus, and others such as for energetic disturbances of scars.
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Search turned-up a lot of references, just in the last year, alone.
Please check yourself out so that you know if it really is a knot of metabolic waste in your muscle fascia, first.
Try your library for a copy of The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Claire Davies and his daughter, Amber. It explains very well about trigger points and has excellent illustrations.
Then try a very good myofascial trigger point therapist who may get rid of your trigger points--rather than jump all the way to trigger point injections.
My experience was that the following all tied together to give me a severely painful locked shoulder: severe hypothyroidism; Lyme, bart, babs germs in my neck, and shoulder muscles; trigger points apparently from Lyme, bart, babs; trigger points in unusual places (from hypothyroidism); and probably from high cortisol.
I also had a bad chiropractic problem caused by atrophied neck and shoulder muscles of Lyme. It put my neck badly in misalignment with my spine. It made my right foot a whole inch shorter than my left.
For that I needed a high-tech chiropractor, called an "atlas orthogonal chiropractor." Google that for one near you.
[Everybody: Lay on a bed. Have someone check the length of your feet, shoes on or off.
If your legs are off even a fraction, you need one of these specialty doctors. This can take care of a number of signs and symptoms, and helps the immune system!]
They may be the best ones to give you the name of a good myofascial trigger point therapist.
The locked shoulder ties into my head pain in the back, on the side behind my ear. That's also where Bell's palsy had taken it's toll the most.
It's taken me a while to get this un-tied because I had to figure it all out.
When a myofascial trigger point therapist says there is nothing else they can do ... well ... then injections.
Please search for a good pain management doctor.
Big needle.
Trigger points can hurt, too.
Do you have a lot of trigger points? Could be severe hypothyroidism and that can cause dozens of trigger points.
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Excellent point on the TPs and hypothroidism. A few days ago I was reviewing Dr.Travell's "Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction", the bible on TPs. In one of the earlier chapters she really stressed the connection between hypothyroidism and many tough TPs.
There is also a technique called strain/counterstrain that if done well is not painful at all and is very effective in relieving TPs.
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