This revised edition of Clair Davies's best-selling book, The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, outlines a very user-friendly and completely up to date method of self-massage that people can employ as a means of reducing and curing their pain.
 
There has been a great need for a comprehensive and easy-to-use resource to help patients identify individual myofascial trigger points and treat themselves. Clair Davies's Trigger Point Therapy Workbook fills that need. I believe this book will help end a great deal of needless suffering and prevent a great deal of unnecessary surgery.
--Devin Starlanyl, author of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain and The Fibromyalgia Advocate
 
This is a splendid self-help book for people with persistent musculoskeletal pain. It tells you how to identify the problem and carefully guides you through the process of self-treatment. The principles of treating myofascial pain and myofascial trigger points developed by Drs. Janet Travell and David Simons form the basis of this book, and are well presented for use by individuals with pain.
--Robert D. Gerwin, MD, neurologist and author of "Myofascial Pain: An Integrated Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment" (video series)
 
I have long been a believer in and practitioner of trigger point therapy. I certainly recommend this book to the general public and health care practitioners. It is truly an excellent resource and provides the tools that induce self-healing and empowerment.
--Bernie S. Siegel, MD, author of "Love, Medicine, and Miracles" and"Prescriptions for Living "and former student of Janet Travell, MD, author of "Travell "and "Simons' Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual"
 
This is . . . a well-organized, easy-to-use handbook that will indeed help sufferers of myofascial pain learn to treat themselves with effective self-massage techniques. The detail and clarity of the book's format will also make it invaluable to pain physicians who want to be able to teach their patients useful, simple strategies to manage soft tissue pain problems.
--Joseph F. Audette, MD, instructor at Harvard Medical School and director of Outpatient Pain Services at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Medford, M
 
Printed in 2004
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Clair Davies, NCTMB, is author of The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook and a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and a graduate of the Utah College of Massage Therapy. He leads workshops and seminars on the self-treatment and clinical treatment of pain using trigger point massage.