Myofacial Pain Syndrome -- Have you ever heard of it?

Seems like you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who has muscle pain.  Muscle pain is pretty common -- most of us have experienced it and likely will again.  But what about those you know who have muscle pain that just doesn't seem to go away?

Fibromyalgia is getting a lot of press in the last few years (mostly because they have some new drugs to treat the pain).  But what if you aren't meeting those diagnosis criteria?  Perhaps you feel like you have chronic muscle knots -- they might move around but they're always somewhere -- and they hurt!  What are they and what can you do about them?  Myofacial Pain Syndrome is often misdiagnosed as tendinitis or fibromyalgia. 

Trigger point therapy is used to treat the more mild cases.  With a little knowledge and know how -- chronic muscle pain could be a thing of the past!