One spot always seems to be the problem
If there is a specific place that always tightens back up, a knot in your shoulder blade, a spot in your neck that seems to trigger your headaches, a hip that never fully lets go, trigger point therapy goes straight at that exact spot instead of working your whole body in general.
Part of deep tissue, worth its own hour.
Trigger point work is a precision technique inside deep tissue massage. An hour gives enough time to find the point and let it fully release.
Essential Reset
Focused time on one or two trigger points, the minimum for real, lasting release.
Holistic Balance
Trigger point work plus deep tissue through the surrounding area, so it does not just tighten back up.
Ultimate Renewal
Full-body work when trigger points have built up in more than one place.
What a trigger point actually is
A trigger point is a tight, sensitive knot inside a muscle. It can hurt right where it is, or it can send pain somewhere else entirely, a classic example is a trigger point in the neck or upper shoulder referring pain into the head as a tension headache.
This is a subcategory of deep tissue work
Trigger point therapy is not a separate category of massage so much as the precision tool used inside a deep tissue session, direct, sustained pressure on one specific spot until it deactivates and the muscle can go back to functioning normally.
Finding where the pain actually starts
I am Mickie, a licensed massage therapist with 6+ years and thousands of sessions behind me. A tight shoulder might start in the hip, a headache might live in the neck, trigger point work is some of the most precise bodywork I do, and often the piece that finally resolves pain nothing else has touched. For some clients, cupping is a good complement when a point is slow to respond.
A tight shoulder might start in the hip, a nagging headache might live in the neck, I work to find where the pain actually starts.
What trigger point work looks like here.
Precise, patient, and focused on the exact spot causing trouble.
We Talk First
Where the pain is, whether it moves anywhere else, and what tends to set it off.
We Locate the Point
Working through the muscle to find the exact spot that recreates your familiar pain.
We Hold and Release
Sustained, direct pressure until the point lets go, not a quick jab and move on.
You Leave With a Plan
Guidance on stretching and activity for the next day or two while the area settles.
A tight, sensitive knot in a muscle that can cause pain right at that spot, or send referred pain elsewhere in the body, like a neck knot triggering a headache.
It is a subcategory of it. Deep tissue works broadly through a muscle layer, trigger point therapy is the precise, targeted version, direct pressure on one specific point.
There is often a distinct, sometimes intense sensation right on the point as it releases, but it should feel productive, not unbearable. You stay in control the whole time.
Yes, a common pattern is trigger points in the neck and upper shoulders referring pain into the head as tension headaches. Working those points can meaningfully change how often they show up.
Some points release in one session, others that have been there a long time take two or three visits. We track how it responds and adjust from there.
Let’s deactivate that knot.
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