Today we are going to do weekly advice, and our weekly advice is about the following: what is a trigger? This is a topic that I recently learned that many people don’t understand, so I’m going to break it down in more detail for you. To do this, I will begin by explaining the structure of the muscle.
First we are going to take any muscle and cut it in half to look at the cross section. The muscle has an outer fascial layer with different muscle bundles inside and inside each of them, there is a muscle fiber. It additionally consists of muscle fibrils. I want you to understand that this is a chamber device, so your muscular bundles and fibrils enter and exit when the muscles contract. Sometimes the fascial layer does not allow the muscles to glide. This is called fascial work. However, the work of the trigger point is that the muscle tissue inside cannot contract and is stuck in the locked position. As other areas of the muscles begin to slide, this particular contractile unit gets stuck and it comes together. I will give you an easy definition: the trigger point is muscle tissue that no longer functions properly. This is true. It is grouped, so it does not work correctly.
To work with trigger points, you need to understand that this one place can be detrimental to many different areas. This can reduce the functionality of all muscle tissue. He will begin to compensate by asking other areas to do more work than they should. It becomes a cascade approach. Therefore, as soon as you begin to compensate, you are asking other muscles to do more work, which they should not do, which, in turn, will accelerate their fatigue. Understanding what is a larger image of the trigger point, allows you to understand what he is doing.
When a muscle begins to add more compensation patterns, we must get the core of this whole problem in order to start giving up. So, now we have to start working with trigger points, touching this area with a ball, hand or any other device. You will know when you get into it, because it reflects pain for another part of the body. The pain will never be in the exact place, because there are many different referral points for the launch point. Nor should he unnecessarily refer to pain. The associated part of the muscle tissue can be considered a trigger point. So how do you handle it?
You can handle this by pressing and holding it, which will lead to a feeling of discomfort or pain. Another thing to do is “milk.” trigger point so that you work in the direction in which it moves inside the muscle. You will get to the point and roll it along the pattern of the muscle. In two ways, you can clear the trigger point — either hold it, relax it, or move it over its natural range of motion.
