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Before you try trigger point injections

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Muscle tone and tension

Inflammation or infection

Nerves (peripheral)

Sympathetic and autonomic nerves

Pain processing

Hormones

Structure

Bladder and bowel function

Sleep and mood

What it means for you

Trigger point injections is aimed at muscle tone. Numbing medicine (sometimes with a steroid) injected into tender muscle knots.

  • Nothing you ticked is aimed at muscle tone.

3 questions worth asking the clinician suggesting it

  1. Nothing aimed at muscle tone has had a fair trial yet. What would a fair trial of trigger point injections look like: how long, and what result would count?
  2. What would tell us trigger point injections is working, and when should we stop if it isn't?
  3. What are the risks and the cost, and what's the plan if it doesn't help?
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