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2014 will see the launch of our Campaign for Myofascial Trigger Point Disease Awareness. Myopain is the least well understood, least well acknowledged chronic pain generator. Unless we understand and manage myopain, our chronic pain therapies will not succeed to the degree that we want them too; our patients will not experience the pain relief that they deserve.

Practice purchase equipment before investing in knowledge; practitioners find it easier to make money and write a check rather than take the time and energy and make the effort to step away from the generation of income and invest in their understanding of the disease called chronic pain.

Despite the fact that muscle is the largest organ system in the body, there is no specialty college that is truly focused on the muscle system. Far too many of us are focused on structures that we can image via radiography, CT, and MR. Far too many of us treat the joint or the spine while completely ignoring the elegantly complex system that stabilize and activate the orthopedic boney structures.

It is fascinating to see that, at times, colleagues who are highly placed within our the world of veterinary pain management and rehabilitation denying the importance, even the validity, of chronic myopain when leading pain researchers and practitioners like Dr. Clifford Woolf and Dr. Charles Argoff fully acknowledge and embrace the crucial role played by myofascial trigger points with regard to both the development and perpetuation of chronic pain.68,69

I am pleased to introduce this myofascial trigger point disease review provided by Dr. Rick Wall, the leading pioneer in the field of veterinary myofascial trigger point disease education and management. Dr. Wall was the first veterinarian to complete the Bethesda based Myopain Seminar's Myofascial Trigger Point Dry Needling certification program. He currently provides annual canine trigger point therapy CME in conjunction with Dr. Jan Dommerholt and Myopain Seminars.

Please follow this link to advance your understanding of myopain:
http://www.vasg.org/myofascial_trigger_point_disease.htm

VASG Myofascial Trigger Point Disease While chronic pain management is likely the least well developed crucial component in the life-management of a dog or cat, myofascial disease is likely the least well understood and arguably the least well acknowledged of the chronic pain generators.Practice purchase equipment before investing in kn...

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