What Exactly Are Fibromyalgia Trigger Points?
When you speak about fibromyalgia trigger points you are referring to the places on the body where you feel acute pain. The fibromyalgia syndrome is characterized by two major symptoms one of which is feeling pain at about 10 to 20 particular spots on the body. These places or points are also known as 'tender points'.
You will know where your fibromyalgia trigger points are by touching and feeling around on your body. When you would touch a trigger point you would experience a sharp pain similar to how you would feel when you touch a bruise.
What Could Be the Causes for Fibromyalgia Trigger Points?
The opinions of the experts are divided on this topic. Some say that this happens because of weakening of the muscles at certain spots but are not able to say what could be the cause of such uneven weakening of these muscles. Why should then not all the muscles pain? Why only certain spots?
Some say that these painful fibromyalgia trigger points happen due to either too much oxidation plus the fact that there is too less oxygen available. Based on this theory anti-oxidants have been added to the diet recommended for fibromyalgia with excellent results. The excellent results point to the fact that this theory might be correct.
What Is Recommended For Curing the Pain of Fibromyalgia Trigger Points
Unfortunately, there is no cure for this ailment. However, proper symptomatic treatment is very efficient in controlling the pain. The best and most popular treatment is adding anti-oxidants to your diet. There are different anti-oxidants in different foods and you would require your nutritionist to work out a diet which includes a massive dose of these if you want to get rid of the pain.
Besides the anti-oxidants you would be required to exercise on daily basis for about 20 to 30 minutes doing moderate level exercises. This would bring oxygen to your muscles which coupled with the anti-oxidants would gradually do away with the pain felt.
A word of warning - you cannot stop once you start this treatment. You need to continue to stick to the prescribed diet which could be adjusted every month or so according to the developments and you would need to continue to exercise even after you felt a little better. Most people discontinue it.
This is a mistake that most people do. They think they are cured when the pain subsides. However, you are only feeding your muscles what they lack. When you stop it, the muscles would develop the deficiency again and you would find yourself back at square one with the pain.
