2017-07-06
Great app
I can now visualize what my physical therapist is talking about when she works on me. It helps me to be more accurate in telling her what's wrong when I go in. She liked it too.
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Description
A reference for trigger points and referral patterns for 108 muscles. Features 160 trigger points with their corresponding referral patterns, 80 conditions that can be caused by trigger points, and 25 videos that show how to release specific muscles. Each muscle includes the visual referral pattern and point location, plus a written muscle action, referral, origin, insertion, nerve, comments, and audio pronunciation for each muscle. You can choose to view each muscle individually, or use the zones view to see all the muscles that refer into a specific area (or for a specific condition). This is a great help in discovering the source of pain.
This app features all the scientifically proven trigger points and referral patterns as shown in the research.
Trigger points are tight places in a muscle that cause pain to be felt elsewhere in the body. This is great for massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, or anyone wanting to discover the source of muscular pain, and learn about muscle function.
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"Any iPhone user with an interest in the human body may find Real Bodywork’s reference app Muscle Trigger Points to be of special interest." Phone Gear Review
"...the app is quite useful for identifying problem areas and gives us a great visual for pinpointing the problem. " Slap App Review
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"SIMPLE & EASY to use, INEXPENSIVE, along with EXCELLENT 3D graphics to help zero-in on areas of each muscle when palpating." Roc 5/5
What's New in Version 4.3
Minor bug fixes
Seller
Name
Real Bodywork
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
4.3
Size
257.9 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
Compatibility
iOS 8.0 or later
Devices
iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Air 2, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 5s, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone SE, iPhone 6, iPhone XS Max, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPhone XS, iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad mini 4
Languages
English
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.0 of 5 (1,012 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2017-06-28
Love this App
The information is clean, clear and to the point. I often use this app with my patients. My patients have a clearer understanding when they see their pain in color.
2017-06-28
Learning muscles and pain referral sites
This is a great tool for docs, nurses, PTs, massage therapists to review refresh knowledge of muscles, insertions, attachments and pain referrals. Even pain patients could benefit. Very helpful.
2017-06-14
Erik Gat with B.M.F
Very useful
2017-06-11
Great app
I am a physician and was looking for a good app to help me remember some of the less common trigger points. I found this app very helpful.
2017-06-05
Love it
I love this app. As a Lmt I sometimes refer to this app if someone comes in and I can't remember where the trigger point a muscle is located.
2017-05-30
No sound at all !
I downloaded 2 apps and I can't hear any video !
2017-05-27
Must have for people in pain
I'm using this app to better communicate pain areas with my doctor ... she likes it too. Thanks !!
2017-05-14
Sound for videos does not work
Would've been a higher rating if the sound works, would be nice to listen to the tutorials and figure out what the expert is saying to help guide you through the process
2017-05-05
Very helpful in practice!
I love this app! Love the view by pain area or muscle. I use it a ton for trigger point dry needling and patient education
2017-04-28
Awesome
As a massage therapist this very ideal for me when I work on my clients
2017-04-26
Review
I think this app is amazing. It helps so much to learn how to treat detailed areas of the body properly. Awesome concept and visualization!!
2017-04-05
Quick reference
Love this app. A great way to review yourself. When needing to f refresh your memory. Educate yourself is never a bad thing.
2017-04-02
Great app!!!
Such a useful tool
2017-04-01
Explains a method for trigger point relief
The pressure method explained seems to work!
2017-03-26
Hi
Es una aplicación muy útil
2017-02-19
Great for even lay people
Love this app. When somethings not working quite right I look it up and I can sometimes avoid a trip to my physical therapist. Thanks guys for a great service.
2017-02-17
Amazing!!
This app of four is the most amazing tool!! Not only does it strengthen my belief in God, but also helps me with some of the pain my husband has, locating it and working on it. We are truly wonderfully made!
2017-02-07
Trigger points
Great app
2017-01-27
Love it
👏🏻👏🏻
2017-01-19
Great app
I've used this app for a few years and have enjoyed how easy it is to use.
2017-01-12
Most informative free app
I've used this app for the past five years or so and it's been phenomenal. Easy to use interface, just the right amount of info up front to get you headed in the right direction and some great background/more in depth info for those that want to dig a little deeper knowledge wise
2017-01-08
Wonderful 😍
Just what I was looking for. Very good and helps you to better understand the body and the way it works. Definitely worth the purchase!
2016-12-29
Great App. !!
Great App. !!
2016-12-27
Awesome app!
Just bought it and already love it. Can't wait till you add more points, zones and muscles.
2016-12-15
Great value...lots of features
Very robust app with lots of features that are directed toward identification and treatment. The videos are a wonderful bonus!
2016-12-15
Don't get the other muscle app
This is all you need. Excellent app. Excellent views. And interactive ability. Good information. Includes actions, insertions and origins... great app.
2016-12-13
Massage - Essential app
Update 12/12: I have graduated and still love this app.
I am a massage student at a clinical massage school. I often use this app and the Trail Guide to the Body apps to clarify material. It's also a great resource for quickly verifying information before a massage session.
2016-11-23
For massagers, not self-treatment
The videos demonstrate how to work trigger points on others. Not yourself.
2016-11-18
Update App!
Please update App, it slows down the IPhone; it's becoming outdated. Thank you very much.
2016-11-02
More than I expected
This is a very helpful app,
I am a license massage therapist. I constantly review muscles, it keeps my knowledge fresh. I love this app I will recommend it ...!
2016-10-23
Trigger Points
I really like this app. I use it on my iPhone and the Surface3 almost on a daily basis. I am a physical therapist and it is great for patient education. It has great application overall. The only downside I have found is that it doesn't have some of the deeper layered muscle groups. But as far as ease of use and quick visuals for most cases it can't be beat!
2016-10-13
Super app
Super helpful, easy & effective app. Highly recommend!
2016-10-09
Amazing!
I had been having a lot of pain and couldn't really figure out the cause. Turns out I had a lot of trigger points and after working on them, I'm now starting to feel great again! This app is amazing, it makes it so much easier than google (lol) to find the causes of muscle pain!
2016-09-21
Great reference
Great benefit as for reference. I'm impressed, knowing I don't have to have my books at all times when I want to study. I can now do some quick reading on the go.
2016-09-20
PTA
Love this app. Use it for myself and to educate patients! Like the info provided.
2016-09-10
Great app for understanding and using trigger points
Accurate information combined with an intuitive, easy to use interface make this a great app for understanding and using trigger points. Perhaps the greatest advantage is that one can almost immediately use the trigger points to release muscles and relieve pain. You don't have to read a lot of information to be able to get relief. This app was worth every penny. I would happily buy it again.
2016-09-07
Nice!
Great distillation of Travel and Simon's work. I am an osteopathic physician and this is a very handy tool.
2016-09-04
It's great!
I use this app all of the time!
2016-08-25
Great app!
Good for studying for the MBLEX!
Thanks!
2016-08-19
Love this app! Helps me & my drs
I have cervical dystonia & this app helps me understand what is happening in my head, neck, shoulders, chest, etc., and to show my drs what I am feeling and where it may be coming from. On more than one occasion I have shared the name of this app with my drs, since they are also impressed by the referral details and the visual presentation. Thank you for helping me on my journey!!
2016-08-02
Foundational causes to spinal injury patterns
If patients knew how bad their doctor needed this information to help them health care would have paradigm shift for the path to excellence!
With this information my testing of patients and diagnosis accuracy has skyrocketed to new levels of excellence.
Helping the athlete or health searcher buy this app is a breeze!!
2016-07-29
Great App!
I have used this app quite often over the past year. It has been quite helpful in allowing me to help my clients.
2016-07-27
Excellent!
A solid troubleshooting tool for your body!
2016-07-24
Great visualization
I am very happy with the app. I loved the first addition and the developer added a tremendous amount of new info in the recent update. Highly recommended and worth every penny.
2016-07-07
Great tool
I really enjoy this app, it's a great tool and it helps keep me on my toes as a LMT. I recommend it to all massage professionals.
2016-07-05
Good App.
I use it a lot in my clinical practice. I do a lot of trigger point dry needling, and this app is helpful to show my clients which muscles may be referring the pain they are having.
2016-07-03
Trigger points
The perfect app for trigger points
2016-06-29
Muscle pain and dysfunction
Love this app. Is great to help identify pain patterns resulting from trigger points in common muscles - often need the complete list of muscles and have to resort to the Jan Travell and David Simons definitive work on the subject.
2016-06-28
Muscle Trigger Points
Wonderful.
This app helps me help myself and others. Pain relief and alignment!
2016-04-20
I use this app daily at my clinic
I use this map daily, it's useful when creating treatment protocols for my patients, when writing my notes and it is a great visual aid when educating my patients and explaining certain aspects of their condition to them.
I find it very helpful in identifying the exact muscles involved in tension headaches.
2016-04-15
Invaluable
Best and most important app I use. I travel and wind up with pain in numerous body locations. Using this app makes it possible to mitigate the pain so that I can feel relief. My wife has lots of pain and this app helps me get her feeling better between massage therapy sessions.
2016-04-09
Perfect tool for getting to know your body on the inside!
I have recently become passionate about wholehearted living and because of this I have come to the beginning of learning "what's connected to what", and "what is where" inside of my body. I'm on a mission to take great care of my body and release my trigger points. Especially because I'm lifting weights on a 5 day split and I love working on my specific areas so that I can recover more quickly and also deepen my stretch/flexibility. this app is SO worth the price. it seems a little spendy but if you're committed to being your best, it's worth the investment.
2016-03-01
Fantastic!
I use this app probably more than any others on my phone because of my consistently tight muscles. Best money I ever spent! I am just blown away by the new update! I love the addition of videos on how to release the trigger points. The support is wonderful too! My question was within a couple of hours (overnight). 2 enthusiastic thumbs up.
2016-02-16
Great app
Big addition with update. Impressive quality for an app, well worth the money. I do yoga and this is a great way to get understanding of what muscles are being used and hitting the posture visually in my mind. I had a question and it was answered within minutes, thank you, well done.
2015-10-15
Most helpful
This is, hands down, the most helpful app on my iPad! This has been used countless times in my household to resolve aches and pains. I rarely pay for my apps, but I would pay for this one over again!! Thank you!!!
2015-08-12
Finally downloaded
My mother has been using her findings within this app for a couple months on me. I keep getting headaches along he back and side of my head, and she uses the app to help relieve some of the pain. I don't have to take as much medicine for pain now. I'm so glad I finally downloaded it myself.
2014-09-05
Love it
This app has come in handy a few times. I use from time to time to see if there's another idea or I'm missing something when working w/my clients. But I do wish it was much more detailed, these are all very superficial.
To those upset by lack of instructions to release the TrP:
Listen folks, there's a reason Massage Therapists have to go to school and pass national exams to be licensed. You CAN hurt yourself, or perpetuate and worsen the problem, going at it on your own. Go see a LMT. To get your monies worth, get a referral from someone you trust or call a high end spa (one w/no hair salon), tell them you need someone good w/pain management and ask for someone who's been doing it 3yrs+.
2014-05-14
Trigger points
Excellent pocket guide for massage therapists. As a teacher I recommend it to all my students and have been doing so since I found this app. It is easy to use and contains excellent information essential to anyone learning neuromuscular massage therapy.
2014-02-21
Excellent Adjunct Tool
Have been using this app as a guide to help confirm the patient's reaction to compression-initiation of trigger points in the right side of the head, especially where the seventh nerve emanates. The app has allowed the treatment applied to the trigger points discovered to be confirmed the result being reduction of chronic pain for longer periods of time than without using the app. Many thanks to the app providers.
2013-12-26
More value then more expensive medical apps
As a massage therapist I can do more than simply recommend this to other professionals. It offers a tool for explaining and self-help with my clients. Triggerpoints is well organized , easy to understand. I have paid hundreds for classes and books without learning as much as I have from this app.
2013-10-02
Great app for locating trigger points!
For anyone interested in trigger point therapy, this is a very helpful app for locating the most common possible trigger points to work on for relieving pain.
Trigger point locations are shown along with the regions they can affect. Work backwards from the paint region to locate trigger points to treat. Very helpful, especially since the trigger point can be located away from the pain.
Use this in conjunction with a good book on trigger point therapy to understand how to treat pain.
2013-09-12
Trigger Point App
This is a stellar app: great graphics, clear explanations, and very helpful in understanding and managing my pain more effectively.
My gait training requires explicit visuals on property muscle and tendon movement. This app really helps me see the correct coordination and location of gait anatomy."
Please expand to all trigger points!
2013-03-16
An app I use every day
I've had success in the past with trigger point massage treatments, but can't afford to go as often as I need it. Self treatment was limited because i could only do it at home where i had my reference books and chart. This app along with a few small tools has been very handy for finding the referring TPs and self treating my chronic pain wherever I go.
2013-02-28
Excellent clinical aide
This app is well worth the small price! I have used it multiple times working as a physical therapist both to figure out what muscle might be causing a patient's pain and also to explain to a patient why they are having a certain referred pain pattern.
2013-02-04
Perfect for bodywork
As a massage therapist, I find this app extremely useful. Understanding the source of referred pain has helped to complete my practice. Thanks!!! Now I can use this as a guide when working on folks, and even show them how referred pain works! Five stars!
2012-12-28
Working out the kinks!
This app gives you many of the trigger points, and a layperson can handle the application of pressure to these points. I've been using this app a lot to work out shoulder pain. I wish there was more direction on each point, rather than general instructions overall. But the comment and info drop downs are still quite useful. It's always neat to find points that are causing pain somewhere else in the body and seeing the difference when you pay attention to those points.
2012-12-28
Decent
Pretty good list of basic trigger points & muscles/movements involved. Should be helpful for most.
I have a book on trigger points that gives literally hundreds of trigger points and lists the associated pain patterns as well as other issues tp's can cause.
I would love to see this app updated with more trigger point locations and details about each one.
2012-12-23
Fantastic Resource!
I've been dealing with Myofascial Pain Syndrome for years but I just recently found this app. It's been amazing and has helped me to better understand what is going on in my body. I now understand what my massage therapist talks about durning massages, and I now know how to help myself in between visits to her or my chiropractor. Amazing resource and well worth the money to buy the app!
2012-12-20
Excellent app
Straight to the point, very informative, covers all the areas of the body. I'm in the medical field and i find this app to be extremely helpful and beneficial. Between the art and the point systems allowing you to pin point the area you need to investigate. Great explanations, definitions and glossary of the muscular skeletal system. Great app! Thank you.
2012-12-04
Love this app!
As a medical massage therapist, I look for causes of problems in my clients. This stunningly beautiful app illustrates common trigger points and pain referral areas. It is very easy to use-just touch the area that has pain, and the app will tell you the origin of the pain. You can search by muscle name, as well. I was very impressed for the small price I paid for it, and have used it repeatedly to illustrate pain patterns/causes to clients.
2012-11-14
So handy!
I LOVE my trigger point manual, but of course I don't want to carry it around with me, so this app is just the thing! I use it at least once a week for myself, and have used it many times to help friends, as trPs can mimic several things that require surgery, but are MUCH more easy to correct. Visuals, like those provided in this app are crucial when explaining to a person WHY they hurt in THIS area, but need to work in a DIFFERENT area. The reason for only 4 stars, is that it would be nice to be able to flip the process-show me where it hurts, then the possible points that could be causing it. But still, so happy to have this app! Great job!
2012-10-10
Excellent app but parts of me wanted more
The app is great itself; however, I'd love it even more if it covered all the trigger points in Travell's books. Or it would give me the option to add my own notes and pictures for other missing trigger points since I do own Travell's books, and I do not want to carry them everywhere with me as they're thick and heavy.
2012-08-24
Informative, easy to use
Excellent app for Identifying trigger points and the specific muscle groups involved. Descriptions of radiating pathways very helpful as well. Would recommend especially to massage therapists, physical therapists, and patients. Can help patients identify affected areas to health care provider.
2012-08-06
This is an amazing app
So I go the idea I want to be a doctor one day I seen this app downloaded it and seen that I was quite interested in the trigger points of the human body so. I look at a few and turns out the list of points goes on and on but they could have threw in something about bones if you ask me but other than that it's a great learning experience for anyone who wants to learn about trigger points in the body
- Tyler Craig
2012-07-29
If you have muscle or mystery pain issues, GET THIS APP!
This App will definitely be of great value to anyone who has recurring or infrequent muscle pain. I benefited from it immediately and wish this informative technology had been available 20-30 years ago.
2012-07-12
Amazing!
This app is so useful for my profession. A very useful tool and displays knowledge otherwise not shown in other forms of anatomy or skeletal actions. I learned secondary movements and referral sites that other books and apps have not shown light towards. Helped me a lot with my patients!
2012-06-18
Acupuncturist
As an acupuncturist dealing exclusively with pain and injury, I needle acupuncture points that sometimes coincide with trigger points. I use this application primarily as an educational tool for patients to quickly show them where it is they, or someone else. Can press or rub to benefit them between treatments. This is a great and quick resource!
2012-06-05
Great App!
As an RN and fibromyalgia sufferer, this app is terrific to map my pain for my pain management doctor. It also helps me see where my most common symptoms occur.. It would be even more useful if I could mark the triggers I'm most suffering from in some way, perhaps by having them change color?
2012-06-04
Very useful
I am an acupuncture physician and do a lot of pain management treatments The absolute best reference for Trigger Point Therapy is of course Janet Travell's landmark work, but this app contains a lot of practical information gleaned from it. If you are a bodyworker, you will know how to deactivate these trigger points with either deep tissue work or acupuncture. This is a very nice little app!
2012-04-19
Awesome
As a CMT, I have found this app to be very helpful. I use it as a quick reference for both myself an my clients. It is also visually great to be able to show clients the muscles/areas that I just worked on. Now they need to put more muscles in the app!
2012-03-31
Not much to it.
If you are looking for an interactive app, keep looking. This app uses static illustrations. When I say "static" I mean there is no rotating or zooming in and out of images going on here. It's very simple. There is very little interactivity. But, I'm not a medical professional, so this app might have a lot of useful information. It looks like the content is there. I'm just thinking that they could have taken advantage of the iPad / iPhone capabilities to make this a true,y engaging and immersive app?
2012-02-25
Happy until...
I loved this app. I'd give it 4 stars, but I installed on my ipad2 today. It was working great until i did a sync. After that it would not open. Minus one star. So I went to the app support page. It said to go to itunes but the app is not in my itunes. So i deleted the app and re installed it. It works fine now, but i hope i wasn't charged twice. I hope it will continue to work..... we shall see.
2011-10-11
Outstanding Application
As a physician, not in physical therapy,but old enough to have intermittent pains, I have found this program to be easy to use and incredibly helpful. I have shared this with a personal trainer with whom I work, and together we have achieved dramatic reduction of pain.
Absolutely worth having.
2011-10-07
Great App - Please Contact Me
This is a great app - we are currently working on an episode for Extreme Makeover:Home Edition and would like to use a flash version of your app on the show. Unfortunately, it is impossible to access. Please reach out to me immediately. Less that 24 hours until we shoot.
2011-09-11
It's a good start!
As a massage therapist, I use trigger point therapy. This tool is a good start and helps remember the fundamentals of the main trigger points. It could include a more detailed map for professional and be more of a educational app. Some text on how to treat trigger point by yourself; theracane, tennis ball therapy and so on. Also, the graphic is nice and simple which is a plus for the visualization. Including a 3D rotation of the muscle would be worth it!
The overall is good and is a solid base for a more advanced app, for professional who want to study or explain and show their client/patient what is going on and where, in case it comes to life one day.
2011-08-28
Brilliant
I'm having a great time finding these with my family--and the relief you feel afterwards is pretty addictive.
Does applying heat to the muscle help? How about stretching?
Also--are there any warnings? About areas we should avoid pressing? (example: sensitive nerves, veins, maybe points that are best to leave alone unless under professional supervision?)
Oh! Folders would be nice, too, so we can save points we are particularly interested in.
2011-07-26
My body loves this app!
I am a former equine sports massage therapist, so I was aware that trigger points existed. Some times I would find them on my body and feel the same sensations in my fingertips upon their release that I have felt working with horse flesh. Now I can pick a painful zone on my body and systematically eliminate about 80% of my pain and discomfort. All that and some useful info to learn. I gave this app 4 stars because I need the creators to add even more zones and trigger points. Otherwise, if you have a general understanding about how touch energy works, this is a very helpful and informative app.
2011-07-08
Fantastic app
This is a great app especially for the price! It is a great reference tool when you are out in the field and being able to show clients the muscles causing their pain is very educational. I am a massage therapist and would highly recommend this app!
2011-06-12
Points
This app is a very good app! It took me a while to find something like this one. The thing is if it can show a part of just muscles and another part of just bones. Another thing is how to touch or hit or whatever is the way to get the pressure point. It will help if it had a video to how make it hurt as a defense app; for men and women that rather just walk away in one peace.
2010-10-09
Informative and helpful, but not for all
This a very good app for anyone interested in knowing more about pressure points and how to identify where pain might originate from. However, not so great if you're looking for exercises to alleviate pain or even how deal with the pain immediately.
For the price I would have liked videos, or at least some tutorials, on how to apply pressure at each point to alleviate the pain, i.e., apply pressure and hold, apply pressure in a circular motion, apply pressure with knuckle, etc. Obviously, I am new to science.
All that said, I would recommend this app.
2010-06-10
Love it but
Its very useful it groups sections and tells you what muscles to work if you have pain in a specific area it is very accurate however some muscles are missing and some areas are not available to the List option hope you update soon this ap is a great idea and a great help to me as a massage therapist for planning a session and also for soap notes. Really appreciate it.
2010-03-05
Decent but could be better
It has some great graphics and good info but not enough muscles. It seems to list all the superficial muscles but nothing else...please add these in when updated..then it would get a 4-5 star rating for sure. Could also use a treatment/intrervention section with pics but that may be asking too much