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| Title | Description | Link |
| Level 2 Muscle Chart |  (113kb) | |
| Prolotherapy | Prolotherapy is also known as nonsurgical ligament reconstruction, and is a treatment for chronic pain | (29kb) |
| Shoulder Injuries | The shoulder is a very important joint in many sports such as racquet sports, swimming and ball sports. It is an extremely mobile joint and relies on good muscle control to maintain stability. | (21kb) |
| Hamstring Strains | Hamstring injuries are the most common soft-tissue injury to the thigh, and are often seen in runners, especially sprinters, hurdlers and long jumpers. They also occur in sprinting sports such as football, soccer and hockey, especially after an inadequate warm-up. | (20kb) |
| Golf Injuries | The most common golf injuries occur in the lower back, elbows, shoulders, hands and wrists. Injuries can occur during golf as a result of overuse or trauma to a region. The impact and stress of repetitive motion of the golf swing is sometimes hard on the muscles and joints; especially if you ignore the early warning signs of an injury such as joint pain, swelling, point tenderness, decreased range of motion, weakness or numbness and tingling. | (40kb) |
| Trigger Point Dry Needling - Applications for Pain Management and Sports Injuries | This course is a Level I course and prior knowledge of Dry Needling is not essential for successful completion. Prior knowledge or experience of Dry Needling is not essential for successful completion of the Level one course. However, having completed the basic courses previously available in Australia your territory will be of benefit. | (159kb) |
| Corked Thigh | A corky is a bruised muscle (contusion injury) that results in bleeding into the muscle. As with a skin wound with ongoing bleeding, the treatment of choice is compression with an elastic bandage – not a crepe bandage as they do not maintain pressure. | (18kb) |
| Computer Tips | How you use your computer can be a major cause of back, neck and shoulder pain. Poor posture while sitting at the computer and lack of regular breaks and exercise can all contribute to the problem. | (447kb) |
| Ankle Sprains | Ankle sprains, particularly ligament sprains are one of the most commonly treated injuries and are extremely common in sports that involve rapid changes in direction such as netball, football and soccer. | (54kb) |
| Central modulation of pain evoked from myofascial trigger point. | Laboratory of Integrated Brain Research, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201 Section 2 Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan. niddam@vghtpe.gov.tw | (11 KB) |
| Central representation of hyperalgesia from myofascial trigger point. | The aim of the study was to investigate if an abnormal brain response to pain exists in patients with myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) when stimulated in a hypersensitive myofascial trigger point (MTP). | (16 KB) |
| The myofascial trigger point region: correlation between the degree of irritability and the prevalence of endplate noise. | This study was designed to investigate the correlation between the irritability of the myofascial trigger point (MTrP) and the prevalence of endplate noise (EPN) in the MTrP region of human skeletal muscle. | (16 KB) |
| Management of Myofascial Trigger Point Pain | Successful management of myofascial trigger point (MTrP) pain depends on the practitioner finding all of the MTrPs from which the pain is emanating, and then deactivating them by one of several currently used methods. | (97 KB) |
| A Proposed Clinical Reasoning Model For Western Acupuncture | The western approach to acupuncture as practised by many physiotherapists has been criticised because of the lack of clinical reasoning underpinning treatment choices. | (107 KB) |
| Does EMG (dry needling) reduce myofascial pain symptoms due to cervical nerve root irritation? | EMG examination at tender points affects myofascial pain symptoms related to cervical nerve root. | (1,999 KB) |
| Needling Therapies in the Management of Myofascial Trigger Point Pain: A Systematic Review | Needling therapies in the management of myofascial trigger point pain: a systematic review. | (58 KB) |
| Trigger Point Dry Needling | Trigger point dry needling is a treatment technique used by physical therapists around the world. | (354 KB) |
| Interrater reliability in myofascial trigger point examination | The myofascial trigger point (MTrP) is the hallmark physical finding of the myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). | (143 KB) |
| Myofascial trigger points: the current evidence | This paper provides an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the history, pathophysiology, mechanisms of pain production, and proposed methods of treatment of myofascial trigger points. | (162 KB) |
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