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A trigger point is a painful area in a muscle. It may feel like there is "knot" in the muscle or an area of tightness. When pressure is applied to the trigger point, the pain spreads out to other areas of the body.
A trigger point injection is a shot that is given in this painful spot.
Reasons for the Procedure
Trigger point injections are given to reduce pain and increase physical functioning so that you can participate in a physical therapy program.
Possible Complications
Complications are rare. But, no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have this injection, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
- Tenderness, bruising, or bleeding at the injection site
- Infection
- Dizziness
- Allergic reaction to the local anesthetic or medicine
- Damage to organs, such as the lung (rare)
- The need for other treatments if this injection is not effective
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
You should not have this injection if you:
- Have allergies to the local anesthetic or medicines being used
- Have a current infection
- Have a bleeding disorder
- Are pregnant
What to Expect
Prior to the Procedure
Your doctor may:
- Do a physical exam and ask you about your medical history
- Have tests done (eg, x-rays , MRI scan )
- Ask you about any allergies that you may have to the anesthetic, pain medicine, or latex
Talk to your doctor about your medicines. You may have to stop taking some medicines up to one week before the procedure, like:
- Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (eg, ibuprofen , naproxen )
- Blood-thinning drugs, such as warfarin
- Anti-platelet drugs, such as clopidogrel
Depending on where your trigger point is, you may need someone to drive you home after the procedure.
You will typically remain awake during the procedure. A local anesthetic may be used to numb the area where the injection will be given.
Description of the Procedure
First, the skin around the painful area will be cleansed with an antiseptic. Next, the doctor will locate the trigger point. This may be done by feeling for the painful area with his fingers. Once the trigger point in found, a thin needle containing medicine will be injected. The injection may contain a long-acting pain reliever, a water solution, or a corticosteroid to reduce inflammation. Botulinum toxin is also sometimes used for trigger point injections associated with muscle contraction. Sometimes the doctor will simply put the needle into the trigger point and not inject any medicine. This is all done to break the pain cycle at the trigger point. If you have more than one trigger point, you may need several injections.
Some doctors may use needle-guided electromyography (EMG) to locate the trigger point. With this approach, a needle will send information to a monitor, which will allow the doctor to make sure he has located the right spot.
How Long Will It Take?
The injection takes a few minutes.
Will It Hurt?
When the doctor feels for the trigger point, you will have discomfort. You will also feel a pinching sensation when the needle goes through your skin. You may have pain, which should not last long.
Post Procedure Care
The hospital staff will apply pressure to the injection site and place a bandage there. You will be observed for a short time to make sure you do not have any poor reactions to the injection. Then, you will be able to go home or return to work.
Take these steps to help ensure a smooth recovery:
- To reduce soreness, apply ice or a cold pack to the affected area for 15-20 minutes, four times a day. You may want to do this for several days. Wrap the ice in a towel. Do not apply it directly to your skin.
- Take over-the-counter pain medicine as recommended by your doctor. The soreness should go away in a couple of days.
- Follow your doctor's instructions for doing physical therapy. You may need to meet with your physical therapist soon after the injection to take advantage of the pain relief in your muscles.
You may have pain relief for weeks or even months. In some cases, though, you may need to have more than one trigger point injection. Talk to your doctor about how often you will need this treatment.
Call Your Doctor
After you arrive home, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
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- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, bleeding, or discharge from the injection site
- Numbness, tingling, pain, or weakness
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Title text: Plus, you have to control for the fact that some people are into being blindfolded.
In research, a blind trial is an experiment where certain information about the test is concealed from the subjects and/or the testers, in order to reduce sources of bias in the results. A scientific approach requires the use of control groups to determine the significance of observations in (clinical) trials. The members of the control group receive either no treatment or the "standard" treatment. A double-blind trial is one where neither the subject nor the testers know who has received treatment, or who is in the control group.
Controls and blinding are crucial to distinguish the actual effects of the treatment from the placebo effect. A subject's belief in whether or not a treatment will help them can cause measurable physiological changes, good or bad. It is vital that there are no clues available to distinguish between the different groups. Even subtle cues from the body language of the testers are sufficient to trigger placebo effect, making double-blind trials necessary.
In a clinical drugs trial, the most common method of blinding is to give the control group a sugar pill with no medicinal value, but identical in appearance to the actual medicine.
Challenges exist in designing placebo alternatives to certain physical treatments that might be being tested, such as acupuncture; in this case the best quality trials have typically used either special 'joke' retractable needles that only give the illusion of proper penetration or the practitioner/researcher deliberately and safely avoids the traditional meridians on the body for the treatment concerned so that the patient remains 'blind' to their role in the trial (the practitioner must otherwise be consistent in treatment between groups and not be involved in the medical assessment phase for properly double-blinded conditions), where the most reliable results still seem to only show a significant placebo effect at work.
There are, however, certain cases where it is almost impossible to make the experience of the control group identical to that of the test group. While making a real and fake pill appear the same is a relatively trivial task, and though depending upon the ignorance of participants to the details of a given established practice or procedure can allow for a certain level of reliability in results, it would be challenging (to say the least) to make the control group in the described experiment think that they are having lots of sex, when in fact they are just taking a sugar pill.
Scientific research involving humans is extremely challenging to conduct because of the difficulty in finding appropriate control groups. This is one of the reasons animal experiments (for instance involving inbred strains of mice) are so common.
The title text adds another twist by taking "blind" literally, and noting that for some people, being blindfolded increases their enjoyment of sexual activity.
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- Megan: We've designed a double-blind trial to test the effect of sexual activity on cardiovascular health.
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I'm confused. Why do ppl not like Helen? What has she done? Or is it because she just used to deal with Trey?
I'm confused. Why do ppl not like Helen? What has she done? Or is it because she just used to deal with Trey?
My bad. I thought the vid Helen did for Kanye's song was the real one. It's not, but they did a helluva good job on it. I loved their whole concept. I saw Kanye's version and I absolutely loveit!!!! It's too cute for words, and the ending is awesome.
I love both videos and as far as I'm concerned they're both official.
When did Ms April say that? Was it in an article? I'd like to read about it.
WELL TOO ME I BELIVE THEY HATE ON HER CUS THEY CANT BE WITH TREY AND IF HE WASNT SINGLE THEY WOULD BE JEALOUS BUT I JUST SAY FOLLOW TREYS WORDS "Hate Will Get You No Where" AND HE IS TRUE NO MATTER WUT I WILL ALWAYS LOVE TREY EVEN WEN HE BECOME TAKEN BUT U NO U GOTTA LET THE MAN LOOK FOR A LADY I MEAN HE CANT STAY SINGEL FOREVER AND EVER HE IS A PERSON LIKE US AND IF HE LOOKING FOR A SPECIAL LADY THEN LET HIM BUT I LOVE HELLEN SHES OK IM FOLLOWING HER BUT STILL SHES A WONDERFUL PERSON AND WUTEVA MADE DEM BREAK UP IS THERE BISNESS NOT OURS BUT YEA :) I HOPE THAT ANSWERED IT FOR U :) BY THE WAY MY TWITTER IS @MrsTrigga_Wifey IF U WANNA FOLLOW :)
Whomever the next lady of his life is I just want her to treat him right or his Angels can be Hellions if need be.
Right LOL
I have to say I hated on her for about 20 seconds when I found out that she was with Trey but then I had a transfusion and got the hate out my system. =) I will probably be jealous of any woman that can grab Trey's attention long enough that he calls her his lady (girlfriend sounds so high school..lol) But just like would Helen it wouldn't last long. Trey is a person above all else and deserves someone special just like the rest of us. It helps my fantasy when he appears single but it's just that...a fantasy. God bless the woman that becomes his lady or even wife...she'll have to be a strong woman and very secure too. I don't care to know what happened between him and Helen either. It's honestly none of our business...think about it...do we want everyone knowing why our exes are our exes...especially if we were the cause of the break up? I am going to enjoy and rep Trey regardless. Whomever the next lady of his life is I just want her to treat him right or his Angels can be Hellions if need be. LMAO!!!
I've wonder that too. It's so sad to see other "angels" go after her and she hasn't done a thing to them. I believe people hate on others because of envy. I looked at her page the other day and she seems really nice. As far as her and Tremaine....who cares that they dated or why it ended. I believe relationships end because that person is not apart of God's plan for us. Doesn't matter if someone cheated or whatever. Fact is she's not apart of God's plan for Tremaine.
Oh really. I'm not sure if I heard that song before. I'll go search for it.
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Why do you feel bad for her?
I do wonder if it hurt her feelings when he stated that he loved her but wasn't in love with her.
@JIMS: oh yeaaaa. you are right, girl. there are alot of songs that i think are about their relationship. "love song" (or "love song 2" from '07 or '08) HASSSSSS to be about Helen.
U feel the only reason fans dislike Helen is b/c she had what most of them want (Trey) and they fear that she might get him back and they'll never have him. As a crazy Trey fan, I can honestly say that's how I felt about her at first,,,,but now I feel bad for the girl.
That's the best way to approach people. Like people until they give you reasons not to.
I asked because she tweeted it to Kanye as if it was an audition tape or something. Like she was plugging herself for the video. Yes she did play the role well. I was like this girl is straight crazy. LOL Yes I think she was playing a stalker.
LOL Trust me, when we first had the conversation I was like tell me more about her!! I was fishing for reasons not to like her. Honestly, I'm the type of person who likes everybody at first. You have to give me a real reason not to like you. Until I meet her in person, she'll be "that pretty girl who used to go with Trey" to me.
Yeah, I think that is the real version of the video. It reminds me of 'Flashing Lights' because the video was simple, only had two characters, was only a few minutes long, but the message was loud and clear. I'm not gonna lie, she did her thang in that video. Was she playing a Stalker? LOL.
I'm sorry if confused you with my post. :( It seems like someone must have said something to her that caused her to make that comment.
Yes I'm sure they are still friends.
I got confused cause you said comment. But I see why some angel's might not like that.
I don't know Helen so I can't say anything about her, but I want to not like her cause she use to date Trey. Other than that I have no real reason to dislike her. But I'm pretty sure their still friends, so I'm gonna have to get use to her. And if they do get back together, well, I'm happy if Trey's happy.
Lord don't want to get you in trouble. I shouldn't have asked in the first place but I was being nosey. LOL :)
I saw it too. Is she really in his video or did they do that video for fun? I'm a bit confused. LOL Yep there is no need to be jealous of her looks. I think there are a few people jealous of her because she was with Trey.
Yes he did. It was a she said/he said situation that he said she started. LOL, OMG I already said too much. If he reads this he's gonna kill me. I can't say what was said. He told me that he can't stand her.
I just saw the Kanye video with her in it and seriously, I wanna be a true fan of hers, but my love for Trey makes me wanna kill her. I think she's beautiful. I'm not jealous of her looks, I'm jealous because she was with Trey.
Yeah I posted already. It was from Zena Foster.
ZenaFoster I wanna know y @treysongz calls his fans treyzangels and half of yall act like the damn devil SMH #letslovein2011 ladies;) thanks #realmgmt
@JesusIsMySavior I already know about her twitter page, but it looks like y'all are talking about a specific tweet she retweeted about something her friend said. Do you still remember what the tweet said?
All I can say is that I think she is absolutely gorgeous. I've seen people tweet about her being stuck up, conceited, silly... Even a friend of mine who really knows her had something to say about her. I don't know her, but Trey loved/loves her. The two of them together makes me jealous as hell, and it feels like hating her would make sense, but I don't.
I don't want them to get back together, though. I'd probably bust a blood vessel if they did.
Oh, I don't think that all of those songs are written about her either.The producer said that Hollalude was recorded two years before it came out, so they were probably still together.
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ZenaFoster I wanna know y @treysongz calls his fans treyzangels and half of yall act like the damn devil SMH #letslovein2011 ladies;) thanks #realmgmt
Here's her direct twitter page.
Do y'all think every song he sings about a past relationship where he was in love with the girl but it didn't work out but he still loves her and friends with her is about Helen???
Unless he says it's about her, I'm not gonna assume.
@JesusIsMySavior what tweet are y'all talking about? I know being a Trey Songz fan I should probably know what your talking about, but I haven't been a BIG fan for that long.
You have some valid points.
I don't know maybe it's just me but I don't think a lot of these songs are about her. Considering that a lot of songs Trey does aren't all written by him. It's like Usher's song Confessions everyone swore it was about Chili but it really was about a relationship Jermaine D. was in.
Though falling for an Angel would be nice, I don't know if that will happen. But stranger things have happened. :) I will agree industry ladies have motives too.
You're funny. :)
If she is having a problem getting over him I can see why if all these songs are really about her. It's sending mix messages.


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