Active trigger points cause pain in the area where they are located and also sometimes in other body areas (referred pain). Each muscle has a particular referral pattern; in other words ...

researchers found that pressing trigger points in the cervical spine (that’s the neck and upper back) induced headaches, showing that it’s these areas that refer pain to your head. Referred ...

and muscle pain of dry needling treatment to the gluteal muscles in athletes with posterior thigh pain referred from gluteal trigger points. Methods: A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled ...