Editing Massage (section)

=== Trigger point therapy ===
Sometimes confused with [[pressure point]] massage,<ref name=nccam/> this involves deactivating [[trigger points]] that may cause local pain or refer pain and other sensations, such as headaches, in other parts of the body. Manual pressure, vibration, injection, or other treatment is applied to these points to relieve myofascial pain. Trigger points were first discovered and mapped by [[Janet G. Travell]] (President Kennedy's physician) and [[David G. Simons|David Simons]]. Trigger points have been photomicrographed and measured electrically<ref>David G Simons, Siegfried Mense and IJ Russell, Muscle Pain: Understanding Its Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment Chapter: Myofascial Pain Caused by Trigger Points p.205–288 (1st hardcover edition), 2000, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins</ref> and in 2007 a paper was presented showing images of Trigger Points using MRI.<ref>Chen et al., p.2 2007, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation</ref> These points relate to dysfunction in the myoneural junction, also called [[neuromuscular junction]] (NMJ), in muscle, and therefore this technique is different from reflexology acupressure and pressure point massage.