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Pectoralis Muscle Trigger Points Can Mimic a Heart Attack
Learn to distinguish between chest pain from pectoralis major trigger points and heart attack symptoms, ensuring timely and appropriate care for your health.
Treating Pectoralis Major Muscle Pain
Explore the causes of pectoralis major muscle pain, learn how pectoralis major trigger points contribute, and discover effective treatments like acupuncture and dry needling.
What is Pectoralis Minor Syndrome?
Discover the causes, symptoms, and effective non-surgical treatments for Pectoralis Minor Syndrome, a hidden source of shoulder and arm pain, including acupuncture and dry needling.
Dry Needling for Tennis Elbow
Discover how dry needling can effectively treat tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, by targeting muscle trigger points to alleviate pain, enhance function, and improve grip strength.
Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow
Explore the benefits of acupuncture for tennis elbow, offering pain relief and improved healing as a stand alone treatment or part of a comprehensive treatment approach.
What is Tennis Elbow?
Explore the causes, symptoms, and effective treatments for tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, in our comprehensive blog post. Learn about preventive measures, exercises, and when to seek professional help to manage this common condition affecting the elbow's extensor muscles.
Acupuncture for Subscapularis Pain
As one of the rotator cuff muscles, subscapularis trigger points can cause back of arm, back of shoulder, and wrist pain. Learn more about subscapularis pain and how acupuncture and dry needling can help.
Acupuncture for Teres Major Pain
Teres major trigger points can cause back of arm, back of shoulder, and dorsal forearm pain. Learn more about teres major pain and how acupuncture and dry needling can help.
Acupuncture for Deltoid Pain
Deltoid trigger points commonly cause localized shoulder pain. Learn more about the deltoid muscle, causes of pain, and how acupuncture and dry needling can help with deltoid pain.
Acupuncture for Teres Minor Pain
Teres minor trigger points can cause posterior shoulder pain as well as numbness and tingling of the 4th and 5th fingers that can mimic cervical radiculopathy. Learn more about the teres minor muscle, causes of pain, and how acupuncture and dry needling can help.
Acupuncture for Levator Scapulae Pain
Levator scapulae trigger points are often the cause of a “stiff neck” and can cause neck, shoulder, and upper back pain. Learn more about levator scapulae trigger points, causes of pain, and how acupuncture and dry needling can help.
Acupuncture for Trapezius Trigger Points
Trapezius trigger points can cause neck, shoulder, upper back pain, and headaches. Learn more about trapezius trigger points, causes of pain, and how acupuncture and dry needling can help.
Acupuncture for Brachioradialis Pain
Brachioradialis trigger points can cause lateral elbow, forearm, wrist, and thumb pain. Learn more about brachioradialis trigger points, causes of pain, and how acupuncture and dry needling can help.
Acupuncture for Rhomboid Muscle Pain
Rhomboid trigger points cause localized upper back pain. Learn more about rhomboid trigger points, causes of pain, and how acupuncture can help.
Acupuncture for Frozen Shoulder
Learn what causes frozen shoulder, common trigger points that refer pain the shoulder and how to treat frozen shoulder with acupuncture.
Acupuncture for Infraspinatus Trigger Points
The infraspinatus muscle is a common cause of shoulder pain. Read more to learn about infraspinatus trigger points and how acupuncture can help relieve infraspinatus pain naturally.
Acupuncture for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause reduced function, numbness, and tingling in the hand and arm due to median nerve compression or entrapment.
According to 2017 research published in Brain, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies showed lasting changes in the brain after acupuncture treatments for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain
Shoulder pain can be caused by an acute injury or a chronic condition like frozen shoulder, arthritis, fibromyalgia, or rotator cuff tendinitis.
Acupuncture helps relieve pain, reduce inflammation, release tight muscles, and increase range of motion for a variety of shoulder problems.