Greetings! 

Got Pressure? Got some steam bottled up inside? Got shoulders and chest that grip you body like a pressure cooker? Got arms and hands that ache when you squeeze them?   Ever wonder if there is a switch you can press  that will release the pressure? Ever long for the the ease in your shoulders, arms, neck and head of days gone by? 

Our  students and faculty are doing just that every friday evening at SBBTI's Trigger Point Clinic. Not only will they press the switches in your body to release your tight shoulders, arms, neck and head muscles, but they will educate you in the process by locating the trigger point source of pain in your muscular tissue and giving you self care tips for keeping it from returning.

A trigger point therapist is a specialist at finding these pesky knots or  hyperirritable nodules that cause referred pain  and melting them with sustained pressure. Trigger Point therapy is a form of deep tissue, that is area specific, fix it in nature and allows you to keep your clothes on while recieving the work. 

Thank God its Trigger Point Friday is our invitation to decompress, deactivate your trigger points,  and infuse the musculature within your shoulders, arms, neck and head with  ample blood flow and lots of feel good neurochemicals.  

To learn more about Trigger Points, I invite you to read a recent interview with Instructor John Harris in my online Bodywise column at the Santa Barbara Independent,

http://www.independent.com/news/2011/apr/17/trigger-point-therapy/  or for a short and sweet "before and after"  see our youtube video with John Harris and Hector Vejar.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJkb1iLW1k&feature=email

Space and ease be with you, 

Katie Mickey

SBBTI Director