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Trigger Point Massage Therapy
Certified RMTs locate and deactivate the specific trigger points causing your pain, referred symptoms, and movement restrictions — delivering targeted relief directly to your door.
✓ Condition-specific treatment
✓ Evidence-based approach
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What Are Trigger Points — And How Massage Addresses Them.
A trigger point is a hyperirritable spot within a taut band of skeletal muscle — a small, contracted knot that produces local pain, referred pain to distant areas, and inhibition of the muscles surrounding it. What makes trigger points clinically significant is that the pain they refer rarely matches their location: a trigger point in the upper trapezius causes temple headaches; one in the infraspinatus causes deep shoulder aching; one in the gluteus medius refers into the lower back.
Standard massage doesn't always reach or address trigger points effectively. Trigger point therapy uses specific pressure protocols to mechanically interrupt the dysfunctional contraction cycle and restore normal muscle function.
Sustained Muscle Overload
Muscles held under prolonged static load — postural muscles during desk work, or phasic muscles under heavy training loads — develop trigger points at the point of overload.
Postural compensation patterns
A single high-load event — a heavy lift, a sudden movement, or an impact — can create an acute trigger point that persists indefinitely without manual treatment.
Satellite Trigger Point Formation
A primary trigger point in one muscle creates neurological sensitization in adjacent muscles, causing secondary (satellite) trigger points that extend the pain pattern well beyond the original injury site.
Poor Posture & Muscle Imbalance
Forward head posture, pelvic tilt, and limb asymmetries chronically load specific muscles in shortened or lengthened positions — the conditions under which trigger points preferentially develop.
How Massage Therapy Helps
Treating the source, not masking the symptom.
Significant immediate and sustained pain reduction following trigger point release
Dry needling and manual trigger point therapy both demonstrate clinically meaningful reductions in pain intensity and improvements in pressure pain threshold in multiple RCTs.
Trigger Points Affect Everyone Differently. We Treat Each Case Specifically.
Our RMTs are trained to identify and deactivate trigger points across all muscle groups — for any presenting pain pattern.
Chronic Headache & Migraine Sufferers
The majority of tension headaches and many migraines have a significant trigger point component — particularly upper trapezius, temporalis, and suboccipital referral patterns.
Desk Workers With Shoulder & Arm Pain
Trigger points in the rotator cuff, scalenes, and pectoralis minor commonly refer pain into the arm and hand — often misidentified as nerve entrapment or carpal tunnel syndrome.
Athletes With Unexplained Performance Loss
Active trigger points inhibit muscle recruitment and reduce force production. Athletes experiencing unexplained weakness or asymmetry frequently improve dramatically with trigger point treatment.
People With Widespread Myofascial Pain
Fibromyalgia and widespread myofascial pain syndrome are characterised by extensive trigger point networks. Systematic RMT treatment addresses these patterns progressively.
Post-Injury Chronic Pain
Injuries that appear healed but continue to produce pain are often maintained by satellite trigger points that formed during the acute phase and were never treated.