Vic: Fingers pointed over slow reaction to Geelong water crisis

AAP General News (Australia);  November 10, 2006 ;     537 words ......water storage levels dropping below the trigger point. Barwon Water, the regional urban water...at just 27 per cent - well below the trigger point for tougher stage four restrictions...Storages are at 26,489 megalitres but the trigger point for stage four restrictions is 29,600...

Chronic Pain Over Claims; A Weekly Check on Health Care Costs and Coverage

The Washington Post;  September 21, 2004 ;     516 words ......attempting to avoid an overutilization" of trigger point therapy. "When you see charges for...a "lousy" $62 per visit or less for trigger point injections. "It may be that there has...neurologist Robert Gerwin, who gives many trigger point shots. "On the other hand, one of the...

As the 40 pound steel weight plunged towards my head, I asked, can pain be...

Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......For our purposes, we call any area a trigger point in muscle, tendon, ligament, or bony...This is a much broader use of the term trigger point than usual. Several years ago, I lifted...that at will on a muscle that had a trigger point, I might be able to eliminate the ...

(video recording review)

Physical Therapy;  June 1, 2002 ;     393 words ......brief overview of the history of the trigger point concept in the literature, followed...explanation of the pathophysiology of trigger point formation and the rationale behind...focuses on a detailed presentation of trigger point diagnosis and treatment for specific...

Trigger Points: Diagnosis and Management.

American Family Physician;  February 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......physical finding typically associated with a trigger point. Palpation of the trigger point will elicit pain directly over the affected...are used to inactivate trigger points. Trigger-point injection has been shown to be one of the...

Is it Possible to Eliminate Pain Instantaneously by Applying...

Dynamic Chiropractic;  January 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......that deliberately on a muscle that had a trigger point in it, the trigger point might disappear. This might then aid in relieving...mechanical. The goal here is not to treat a trigger point repeatedly, like previous techniques such...

The Manual of Trigger Point and Myofascial Therapy.(Book Review)

Physical Therapy;  October 1, 2002 ;     485 words ......research, and trends regarding myofascial trigger point syndrome. Myofascial trigger points...Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual, Vols. 1 and 2). The authors...contribute to the field of myofascial trigger point syndrome by emphasizing the mechanism...

Flood plans readied as rain comes down

The Press;  September 21, 2002 ;     279 words ......only 30cm from the designated 311.2m trigger point where water begins to enter reserve...yesterday, about a metre below its trigger point. The major concern in the Wanaka area...Lake Wakatipu being 40cm below the trigger point at 4pm today is not a lot, especially...

Worden woman denies practicing medicine.

Telegraph (Alton, IL);  May 19, 2007 ;     271 words ......advertised a manual claiming to offer a trigger point release method to cure all sorts of...who reported that after (Swick's) trigger point releases, her body felt new and relaxed...reikiraysinstitute.com. The ad claimed that trigger point release can be learned from the comfort...

California Inventor Develops Trigger Generating System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 6, 2007 ;     282 words ......input measurement signal to determine a trigger point for a predetermined trigger waveform...correlation is then used to identify a trigger point. Generally the point in time where...digital samples identifies the desired trigger point. This trigger point is then used ...

Trigger points and the rules of disengagement

Fire Management Today;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......defines when a change is needed is called a trigger point. A trigger point on a wildland fire is a set of preplanned...zone (see the sidebar). The lead time that a trigger point provides depends on the time needed to move...

(book review)

Physical Therapy;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual, Volume 1: Upper Half of Body...Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual, is a tool that all practitioners...understanding the causes of myofascial trigger point pain, methods of eliminating the source...

Acupuncture and myofascial trigger therapy treat same pain areas

The Hindustan Times;  May 14, 2008 ;     490 words ......technique," he said. Myofascial trigger-point therapy, which has evolved since...focuses on tender muscle or 'trigger point' regions. There are about 255 such regions described by the Trigger Point Manual, the seminal textbook...

Wisconsin, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Cardiac Image Acquiring Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 15, 2007 ;     301 words ......period of time, the time between each trigger point and the associated local maxima or minima is determined. In response to the trigger point occurring at the associated local maxima...calculated, and in response to the trigger point not occurring at the associated local...

The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain...

Dynamic Chiropractic;  November 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Title: The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment...Massage and Bodywork. But to call The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook a discussion of...referring to a Monet as graffiti. Trigger-point therapy is not new, but Janet Travell...