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What are trigger point injections, and how can they help with muscle pain?

Muscle Pain Injection in Encinitas CA Area

If you deal with pain in the body, you are not alone. As we age, our muscles and joints are more susceptible to injury and even conditions that can occur as a natural part of aging. Over time, many of us experience joint pain or back ache due to inflammation in arthritis that can be treated using medicine. The good news is there are solutions like trigger point injections that address the root cause of your pain without any side effects. At Seaside Rheumatology and Wellness Center in Encinitas, California, Dr. Peter Lloyd can assist with trigger point injections, which … Continue reading

Find relief with trigger point injections

What Is The Trigger Point Injections Cost in Encinitas Area

When muscle fibers are injured, whether through trauma or overuse, a knot-like scar known as a trigger point can form. Patients with arthritis are at an increased risk of developing trigger points. Trigger points can occur in a variety of areas and may be painful, tight, or become inflamed. At Seaside Rheumatology and Wellness Center in Encinitas, California, we offer trigger point injections as a cost-effective method for alleviating pain.  What you should know about trigger points Trigger points can have many different causes, everything from conditions like fibromyalgia to injuries, trauma, or even chronic tension headaches. The knots that … Continue reading

New Techniques and Options for Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger Point Therapy in Encinitas CA Area

A chronic condition called “Trigger Points” could cause many of your debilitating symptoms, such as decreased mobility, persistent pain, ringing in the ears, and tension headaches. Thankfully, here at the Seaside Rheumatology and Wellness Center, Dr. Peter Lloyd and his associates offer incredible trigger point injection (TPI) therapies that can help relieve these conditions and more. Diagnosing Trigger Points Before recommending trigger point injection therapy, Dr. Lloyd will examine these afflicted areas by touch. These points will often be hypersensitive nodules of muscle tissue that are unusually firm. There will likely be a sharp localized pain response, radiating discomfort, or a local twitching … Continue reading

Benefits of trigger point injections, Encinitas CA

Benefits of Trigger Point Injections in Encinitas CA Area

Patients with chronic pain often seek out an experienced doctor to help diagnose the cause and help them find relief. Dr. Peter Lloyd of Seaside Rheumatology and Wellness Center in Encinitas, CA, has helped countless patients with muscle and joint pain find relief with both medical and natural therapies. Individuals who are experiencing what feels like knots of muscle, known as trigger sites, can find relief and benefit with trigger point injections. What are trigger points? Often occurring after trauma to the body, such as a car accident or sports injury, trigger points are targeted areas of spasm and inflammation … Continue reading

What is the cost and advantages of trigger point injections in Encinitas?

Cost and Advantages of Trigger Point Injections in Encinitas Area

Chronic muscle pain and discomfort is a common complaint of patients who have knots and tight muscles that cannot be relaxed through manual methods such as massage or exercise. In situations such as this, patients experience chronic discomfort caused by irritated nerves, which can send referred pain throughout the body. Patients in the Encinitas, CA area who are interested in learning more about trigger point injections available at Seaside Rheumatology and Wellness Center can find out more about the benefits and cost of this treatment to manage their pain. What are trigger point injections? Trigger point injections, or TPIs, are … Continue reading

Are trigger points to blame for your pain? Encinitas, CA specialist resolves symptoms with injection treatment

Trigger Point Injection for Muscle Pain in Encinitas area

Trigger points may be to blame for all sorts of debilitating symptoms, from persistent pain and decreased mobility, to tension headaches and ringing in the ears. These “hyperirritable” spots located within a taut band of skeletal muscles often accompany chronic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). As a specialist in diagnosing and managing MSDs and autoimmune conditions that affect the muscles, joints, and bones, Board-Certified Rheumatologist Dr. Peter Lloyd may recommend treatment with trigger point injections for muscle pain in Encinitas CA at the Seaside Rheumatology and Wellness Center. Diagnostics If you are an appropriate candidate for trigger point injection treatment, Dr. Lloyd … Continue reading

Chronic muscle pain? Trigger point injections from Encinitas, CA, rheumatologist could be your answer

Consider trigger point injections for muscle pain from Dr. Peter Lloyd in Encinitas, CA

There’s the weekend workaholic who’s spent seven days straight (for years) hunched over a computer. And there’s the weekend warrior who’s still nursing that shoulder injury from last month’s pick-up football game. Both could find themselves suffering significant, chronic pain from what they may call “muscle knots,” aka “trigger points.”  Both can find relief with trigger point injections from rheumatologist, Dr. Peter Lloyd, of Encinitas, CA. Trigger point injections (TPIs) are widely considered one of the most effective treatments for extremely painful trigger points and are repeatedly cited as the best way to achieve relief from this type of muscle … Continue reading


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