Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Part I : What You Need to Know Chapter 1: General Overview Chapter 2: Muscles: Your Moving Machine Chapter 3: Trigger Points: Cause and Effect Chapter 4: Fibromyalgia, Trigger Points, and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A New Understanding Fibromyalgia: A Hypersensitized Central Nervous System Chapter 5: Kinetics: Lines of Power Chapter 6: Keys to Symptom Management: Identification and Control of Perpetuating Factors Chapter 7: Symptom List Part II: The Gallery: Identifying the Symptom Source Chapter 8: Muscles of the Face, Head, and Neck Chapter 9: Muscles of the Trunk Chapter 10: Muscles of the Shoulder, Arm, and Hand Chapter 11: Muscles of the Hip and Thigh Chapter 12: Muscles of the Lower Leg and Foot Chapter 13: Beyond the Myofascia Part III: Where Do We Go from Here? Chapter 14: Solving the Puzzle: History, Exam, and Treatment Chapter 15: Fibromyalgia and Trigger Points in the Twenty-First Century References; Index

About the Author

Devin J. Starlanyl, fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain patient and care provider, is retired president of the Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Institute. She is the coauthor of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual and author of The Fibromyalgia Advocate. She has published articles on fibromyalgia and trigger points in national and international medical journals and maintains a fibromyalgia website (www.sover.net/~devstar). She facilitates the Facebook page Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction. John Sharkey, MSc, has been a foot soldier fighting the war on myofascial pain from trigger points, working for better understanding of fascia and human movement. John is an exercise physiologist (BASES), anatomist (BACA), and European Neuromuscular Therapist.