Best self-treatment for muscle pain: trigger point massage, TENS / EMS, cold spray - products review

Posture correction and daily exercises are essential to prevent or treat back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain or arm pain. Wrong posture, inadequate behavior and poor ergonomics are indeed the main causes of back pain or any other ill condition.

But next to this, it is useful to have a few devices that you can use from time to time for self-treatment. You will feel better and treatment will be easier if you can do the first aid when you're in pain, before you have an appointment with your physiotherapist, chiropractor, osteopath or general practitioner. Especially now, if you are working from home in a country where health services are reduced due to the lockdown.

In this video, I will review 3 modalities that I have been using for many years, either on me or with my patients:
trigger points massage techniques with a Theracane (upper back pain, mid back pain), a massage ball or a champagne cork (especially useful for the extensor carpi muscles, causing elbow pain and wrist pain)
EMS for muscle relaxation, using the Beurer EM41 or EM49 (neck pain, piriformis pain, lower back pain, upper and middle back pain), as well as the Romonacr Electronic Acupuncture Pen Energy Meridian
spray and stretch as taught by Travel and Simons in the Trigger Point Manual (Travell & Simons), using the Perskindol yellow spray (cold then warm). This is especially useful for stretching the scalene and for SCM release (sternocleidomastoid).

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