Hi has anybody out there tried trigger point injections to ease pain in neck shoulders and back did it help

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[LindseyMid]

Have you been diagnosed with myofascial pain/trigger points?

I never had these myself, but I understand that they can be effective for some people. However, if you have wide areas of restrictions, rather than a relatively small number of isolated trigger points, then injections may not be as helpful, because they cannot inject all the restrictions. In that scenario, myofascial release therapy (MFR) may be of more use.

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Yes I have them every 3 months in both shoulders and the right side of my neck... My neck and shoulders spasm so bad they would cause a migraine type headache 3 days out of every 7 since having the injections every 3 moths for the last 18 months I have had 3 headaches... I would recommend them.... They hurt for about 5 seconds then its just a slight soreness for 24 hours and I can actually feel the muscles unknotting.... Wonderful

VG x

[Jjudith]

Yes, I had an injection in the forehead, which was wonderful as it instantly eased my headache, and one in the back of my neck, which I needed because my head was sort of leaning to that side all the time. It did help a lot with the neck pain, but after that I seemed to get more pain in my left arm.

I also think that doctors don't always understand fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome very well, steroids are contraindicated in trigger point injections, you can have either dry needling or a local anaesthetic to numb the injection site. When I went to the pain clinic, the doctor there gave me an injection with steriods into my face but it made things worse.

I taught myself trigger point massage from the wonderful book by Clare Davies - Trigger point therapy workbook - and I find that really helps with pain and now I don't need injections so often, and what is more, you can do it yourself at home and you don't need to wait until you see a doctor.

[helbell in reply to Jjudith]

I too work from Clare Davies book. It helps so much.

Trigger point therapy is good if you can afford it.

[helbell in reply to helbell]

Ah...should have posted atop

[Fibrofoggiest in reply to Jjudith]

Thank you for the information about the book, I'm going to get a copy and see if that helps. I've had loads of injections, some of which helped, others not, so it will be interesting to see if the trigger point therapy could help. Many thanks Foggy x