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Originally Posted by cha59
I've read a little bit about trigger point injections - those sound like a bad, invasive way to treat them imo, especially when there are a lot of things that can be done to treat them.
I like to see your interest in this. I wish more medical professionals would show this type of interest. I also wish I had more/better responses. I'm just a guy who's suffered from trigger points and overcome most of the problems I had. I learned a lot about them along the way, but I don't have the depth of knowledge of a medical professional.
I think there is quite a bit of controversy about trigger point injections in the medical community, so you certainly wouldn't be the only one.
As for the bolded, unfortunately I think a lot of the reason parts of the medical community aren't taking it seriously would be because chiropractors seem to be one of the groups talking about it a lot. For better or worse, chiropractors have never been particularly strong in producing good research studies to allow "evidence based" treatment and in recent history their reputation among MD's has really dropped because so many chiros jumped onto the anti-vaccine bandwagon or are trying to treat diseases way outside their scope of practice.
(I personally am neutral towards chiropractors for MSK complaints as I am not educated enough to have an opinion, but I think a lot of chiros are attempting to play medical doctor with other non MSK conditions which is really dangerous)
But assuming those endorsements for the book weren't fraudulent, it seems obvious that several specialists with more specific expertise in the area seem to be taking it seriously and eventually it would spread throughout the community if the evidence backs it.