Massage Therapy works by addressing the following SIX physiological factors which can intensify pain patterns.
Myofascial Trigger Points
Highly irritable points in the soft tissue system. Travell, a doctor who specialized in myofascial trigger points, defined a TrP as "a hyperirritable spot in skeletal muscle that is associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band. The spot is tender when pressed and can give rise to characteristic referred pain, motor dysfunction, and autonomic phenomena. The taut band of muscle is best characterized as a palpable, ropy structure."
Nerve Entrapment/Compression
When a nerve gets pressed constantly or occasionly by surrounding tight and adhesed tissue, it can lead to pain, weakness, numbness and/or tingling in the path of the nerve.
Postural Distortions
Postural distortions result in underdevelopment of the supporting muscles causing misalignment. This results in the whole kinetic chain of the human body to be unbalanced. This leads to the body wanting to compensate which ultimately leads to more stress on the supporting structures.
Nutrition
Lack of adequate nutrition to the cells leads to an over all weakening of the health and integrity of the cell. Great cellular nutrition is needed for great health. Healthy, well nourished cells supply an abundance of natural energy, resistance to stress and degenerative diseases and an overall experience of vitality. Muscle cramps from insufficient oxygen not being able to oxidize lactic acid, which would otherwise get rid of it from muscle.
Ischemia
Ischemia is a lack of blood supply to the tissue cells. This results in the cells becoming under-nourished. Partial ischemia can result in a depression of cellular transmembrane potential difference. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4075507
Membrane potentials are nessessary for muscle contraction.
Stress
Stress plays havoc with the functioning of the nervous and musculoskeletal system.
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