Product Description

Author Clair Davies' own case of frozen shoulder led him to undertake an extensive study of trigger points and referred pain that eventually resulted in his runaway best-seller, "The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook". Now, this renowned bodywork expert and educator revisits the subject of frozen shoulder, offering the most detailed and comprehensive manual yet available about this painful and debilitating condition, a useful resource for self-care and for bodywork practitioners looking to expand their treatment repertoire. Frozen shoulder, the syndrome name for several joint and tendon-related symptoms, is experienced as a loss of motion and pain in the shoulder and upper arm. It is most often observed in women between the ages of forty and sixty and individuals with type-two diabetes. Traditional medical treatments for the condition, which rely on painkillers, steroid injections and physical therapy, often do little to moderate symptoms or speed recovery. Trigger point therapy, a gentle massage technique that targets localised areas of tenderness in soft tissue, has been used very successfully to relieve pain, restore range of motion and shorten recovery times.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25982 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .65" h x 8.56" w x 11.00" l, 1.57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review

From a practical point of view, this is a really exceptional workbook, which could become a best-seller in its field. It is a wonderful overview concerning trigger points, which are the most common cause of frozen shoulder. I can recommend the book to all who are engaged in treating frozen shoulders, including medical doctors, therapists, and patients together with their partners.
--Dieter Pongratz, MD, professor in the department of Neurology at the University of Munich Hospital, Friedrich-Baur-Institute, in Munich, Germany

The Frozen Shoulder Workbook is truly a remarkable and comprehensive text that will be indispensable for patients with chronic shoulder pain. Written from a layperson's perspective, it is very readable and well illustrated, but still has plenty of background science and anatomy to satisfy clinicians as well. The book outlines a thorough approach to myofascial pain in the shoulder region and provides multiple treatment strategies to address the clinical

From the Author
If you’re enduring the misery of a frozen shoulder, you need to know that "adhesive capsulitis" is almost always a mistaken diagnosis. Unless your shoulder has been "frozen" for several months or years, adhesions haven’t had time to form. Unfortunately, most of what you hear from the medical establishment and find on the internet is outdated, parroted dogma about adhesive capsulitis.

Your shoulder pain and stiffness is almost certainly caused by myofascial trigger points (tiny contraction knots) in muscles associated with the shoulder. Trigger points are easily treated, and good results usually come very quickly. These are medically proven facts, although very few medical schools teach them as yet, and most doctors are still out of the loop.

Even so, thousands of physicians, physical therapists, and massage therapists have studied trigger point therapy independently and are using it to successfully treat shoulder pain and frozen shoulder.

Don’t let inertia, lack of knowledge, or someone else’s skepticism keep you from doing your own research. Try the therapy yourself and find out for yourself whether it works. Trigger point massage is such a simple therapy that most people are able to treat themselves.

Don’t buy the myth that you have to endure this misery for a year or longer. (I cured my own frozen shoulder in four weeks.) If you have the initiative to assimilate and apply the information contained in The Frozen Shoulder Workbook, there’s a good chance you can cure your own frozen shoulder.

About the Author
Clair Davies, NCTMB, is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and a graduate of the Utah College of Massage Therapy. He specialises in trigger point massage for the treatment of pain. His interest in massage began when he successfully self-treated a frozen shoulder with trigger point massage. Inspired by the experience, he began an intensive private study of trigger points and referred pain. The end product of this study was a simplified method for treating myofascial pain throughout the body. Massage therapists, chiropractors, medical doctors and physical therapists all over the world are now using this new system for the relief of joint and muscle pain. Countless thousands of pain sufferers have benefited from the self-treatment techniques.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
The power to heal yourself is priceless!
By Carola P. Sautter
Wonderful book! Everybody with frozen shoulder should be given the chance of trying this method; it helped me heal my frozen shoulder. The explanations on how to locate your problem muscles, and how to treat them, are incredibly accurate. When you have had months and months of pain, and you go to doctors and physical therapy and the results are so slow that you start believing you are never going to heal, this book shows a way to find relief and to get well. Furthermore, you can continue to treat yourself whenever pains pop up (like maintenance). I am not saying that doctors and physical therapy didn't do anything to help, but it was the methods described in this book what finally gave me back my mobility and took away the pain. I continue using it every time I have contracted or sore muscles. I recommend it all the time to every person that I think could be helped with these methods. I actually have had several people buy it and use it regularly. It is a lot of information though. Just go slowly. The results are amazing.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Even my physio is impressed!
By starlily
What an amazingly useful book! I was in so much pain that I was barely managing anything but work, my social life had disappeared and I couldn't use that arm for even basic tasks. My physiotherapist had given up and referred me on, my GP, who told me I might have to just live like this for the next 2 - 5 years (a thought I couldn't bear) wanted to refer me for a cortisone injection or keyhole surgery - neither of which are guaranteed to make any difference. This book was my last attempt to avoid those.
It's some of the best money I've ever spent. I thoroughly recommend anyone with a frozen shoulder try it - 2 weeks later I no longer have to lie down as soon as I get in from work, I've been out 4 nights in the last week and I'm enjoying life again. I'm not pain free yet, but it's manageable and I have almost 100% movement back in the mornings, maybe 85% overall, and when my shoulder stiffens up again, I've learnt the tools to release it.
You have to be committed to working on the problem, it's not a pain-free solution (although it's much more manageable pain) and it's a complicated book to follow at times. My only criticism is that it would have been useful to have a quick "how to" guide and not have to plough through all the technical terms and anatomy.
Everyone with a frozen shoulder should be given the strategies in this book - it would save years of pain for the patient and a huge amount of money for the NHS!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
INFORMATIVE, DETAILED AND FASCINATING BOOK
By K. Marono
Having suffered from a frozen shoulder now for two and a half years I decided to buy this book to see for myself if there is anything I can do, apart from the classic exercises that physiotherapists prescribe, to help resolve the problem. The book has been very useful for me as it has helped me to understand in great detail the anatomy of the shoulder, the probable causes of my frozen shoulder and, even though it's too early for me to say if the trigger point therapy will cure me completely, it certainly seems to have helped up to now.