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Question | Answer |
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Most likely culprit of hip pain that is worse with long standing or walking and better after sitting | Glut med |
Most likely culprit of "pseudo-sciatica" | Glut min |
Most likely culprit of plantar fasciitis | Soleus |
Big toe pain is probably actually coming from this little-known muscle in the midleg | Plantaris |
Most common cause of deep anterior shoulder pain | Infraspinatus |
Little-known point for effectively releasing psoas | BL24 |
Latent trigger points in this muscle account for the majority of neck and shoulder pain and can also cause shortness of breath and propensity to anxiety and irritability | Levator scapula |
Most likely culprit of "pseudo-trochanteric bursitis" and may save your patient from a surgery if correctly diagnosed and treated | TFL |
If a patient complains of "sitting intolerance," what is the first muscle we should think of? | Glut max |
What points would we use for a patient complaining of groin pain? | Several motor points above and below LR10 |
What point essential to opening up the diaphragm and respiratory accessory muscles have we been needling wrong all these years? | LR13, GB26 (and also SP21 and GB22) |
How would we release rectus femoris? | |
How would we release vastus lateralis? | |
How would we release vastus medialis? | |
What points to use to release biceps femoris? | |
What points to use to release semitendinosus? | |
What points to use to release semimembranosis? | |
How would you release sartorius? | |
What muscle(s) to think of when patient presents with amazingly complex, difficult to locate headache? | SCM |
What muscle for "coat hanger" type temporal headache? | Trapezius |
What muscle probably causing "silver dollar" posterior shoulder pain? And what is the point to treat it? | Teres minor |
What muscle likely implicated in patient presenting with deep posterior shoulder pain | Teres major |
Go-to muscle for first best shot at successfully treating "frozen shoulder?" | Sub-scap |
What muscle to think of when patient presents with deep palmar wrist pain? | Pronator teres |
What muscle to think of when patient presents with pernicious mid-thoracic/lower scapula backache | Latissimus dorsi |
Muscle that needs to be released when patient presents with anterior shoulder and chest pain (this muscle known as the "Neurovascular Entrapper")? | Pec minor |
Patient complains of weak (and/or painful) grip | EXTENSOR CRL/B & EXTENSOR C Ulnaris (also consider BRACHIORADIALIS if "Tennis Elbow" signs present) |
Patient complains of needle-like forearm pain and/or "trigger finger" | FLEXOR CR and Ulnaris, FLEXOR Digitorum Superficialis |
What is Jian Qian (aka Jian Nei Ling) amazing for—and where is it? | Anterior deltoid |