Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Unlocking the Mystery of Trigger Points | Acupuncture & TCM

21 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD explaining that trigger points (fascial tension points) can contain inflammatory markers reflective of organ inflammation. He links this finding to mechanisms for whiplash-induced nerve signaling and development of centralized pain syndromes, and indicates forthcoming correlation with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.

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These are trigger points. And what they found with these trigger points, these fascial tension points, that the inflammatory markers in the organs actually can be found in these trigger points. This is intriguing for one, because it actually helps understand, like, whiplash injury. And actually the article talked about the ID whiplash injury, where you get, you know, the initial injury in your, in your neck, but the nerves that become stretched send signals to your spinal cord. And this is how these things become centralized. You develop centralized pain syndromes. I'll talk about the correlation with chronic fatigue and fibro here in a second.