This was then followed up by years of research and documentation by Janet Travell and David Simons, the result of their cumulative work was the textbook – Travell, Simons and Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction (now in its 3rd edition). Many years later in the 1930’s Jonas Henrik Kellgren started the scientific investigation into these sore spots or what he called Referred Pain from Muscle ( Kellgren, 1938). It is well documented in Asian cultures that traditional healers would therapeutically treat sore spots with manual therapy or acupuncture needles, one example is ASHI (ah yes!) points, a central tenant in acupuncture for over two thousand years. This 5300 year old preserved body gives insight into ancient medical practices, as it is believed that these tattoos represent an early form of therapeutic treatment similar to acupuncture used to treat low back and knee pain ( Kean et al., 2013 Zink et al., 2019). This frozen body has 61 tattoos that correspond to myofascial trigger points and traditional acupuncture points that are commonly utilized to treat musculoskeletal pain. One of the oldest examples on record is a 5,300 year old naturally preserved human body discovered in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria called Otzi “The Iceman”. The concept of sore spots that can be leveraged for therapeutic purposes have been independently discovered by several different cultures in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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