Target Trigger Points

Target Trigger Points?

Target the target point!!!

Treating the real location of an injury must be determined. This requirement may sound so simple that it is understood - when in fact - the truth is many people are misled. The body has a complicated system of nerves and it has been repeatedly established scientifically that where the pain is experienced is not necessarily the source of the injury. We have the conviction and the mission to declare this medical misnomer. It is simply a misuse of terms. Patients can truly benefit. This is not an opinion. It is a scientific fact.

To study the target point with respect to the difference of that to a trigger point is really starting from the wrong direction.

The foundation, the target point was established long before the trigger point. In the 1890’s established that spinal nerves could cause pain to be radiated out toward other parts of the body, the arms, legs, feet, etc. Additional clinical trials in 1940 and 1960 fine tuned this. The wong way medical method uses this as a foundation in Step one, diagnosing the true source of the injury.

Then, President Kennedy’s doctor began speaking about pressing in one location to trigger pain in another location but along a corridor of nerves. This term applied to mysterious pains. The idea only bolstered the proof of the 1890’s. Soon out of popular misconception, everyone used the term trigger point for a location associated with pain. These associations were used without accurate understanding so the term underwent a transformation to be used in such a broad sense, the original definition was substituted for another term: where it hurts.

But it should be noted, trigger points do not distinguish the source of an injury. When the term Trigger Point is mis-used a term used by those not associated with the actual distinction. It is like a city person - unfamiliar with horses - and looking at a herd at a horse farm. When asked, they would remark, it's just a bunch of horses. Yet, one horse could be a plow horse and the other horse could be a triple crown winner. The differences between the horses are astronomical. Only when persons who are schooled in subtle differences are involved.

Differences between trigger points and target points are crucial in understanding the wong way. Regardless of the medical validity of a trigger point, if treated all day, every day, it would not cause healing. You must treat the SOURCE of the pain or the original injury. Only then can you promote healing.

To summarize, the president’s doctor promoted the use of trigger points to explain the discovery of pains along a nerve. Then others in a more casual sense began to refer to Trigger Points to imply simply “where it hurts”.