In addition to locating the muscles which are associated with the pain in a specific area of the back, it is helpful to note which activities trigger the most significant discomfort. Combining location of the pain with the specific activities that trigger the pain in that location, paints a better picture of the most affected muscles and allows for more precise search of specific trigger points responsible for your back pain.
To begin, select the activity which causes you to have the most pain in the area of the back that you are concern with. Click on the respective tab and write down the top three muscles on the list. If there are additional activities causing your back pain, return to this page and repeat the process. When you are done, look at the list of the muscles associated with the specific activities. In particular, pay attention to the muscles listed as #1 and #2 under each activity. Write down the muscles that were repeated most frequently as #1 and those listed most frequently as #2.Compare the list that you have just created in this section with the list of muscles you wrote down in the previous section. Identify the muscles which are taking up the #1 and #2 positions on both lists. These are the muscles that you should start treating first. Once you adequately treat these muscles and you can no longer elicit any tenderness on palpation of their trigger points, look at the list again and treat the remaining muscles if pain is still present.To view the complete list of the most frequently involved muscles in the back pain, click on the tab “Muscle Monograph”.
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