Bonnie Prudden myotherapy is referred to as a specialized form of muscle massage. It is also a stretching with the use of deep manual pressure on specific spots of the human body for releasing "trigger points". The mentioned points are known to occur within a band of skeletal muscle or in the connective tissue encasing the muscle (muscle's fascia). Trigger points are rather painful upon compression. For this reason they can cause some pain in other various parts of the human body. So, one of the Bonnie Prudden myotherapy purposes is to relax the mentioned muscle knots and provide the person with quick relief of muscle-related pain (thanks to myotherapy effect). Speaking about Bonnie Prudden myotherapy it's worthy mentioning that this kind of message branched out of the so-called "myofascial trigger point therapy" pioneered in the early 1940s. It was introduced by Janet Travell who was a physician of John F. Kennedy. Her therapy involved injecting saline and local anesthesia directly into the painful trigger points. At the same time her injections were followed by a series of gentle stretches and special coolant spray. Later, in 1976, a leading authority on health and exercise, Bonnie Prudden, came upon the myotherapy. It was pretty serendipitously. Bonnie Prudden was an assistant to a doctor in preparing the patient to the standard injection therapy. And during this assistance Bonnie pressed to hard on one of the patient's trigger points. It was unintentionally but almost immediately that patients felt much better. Since that accident Bonnie Prudden has started to theorize this invention that trigger points could simple be released by applying manual pressure on them. Soon, her friend Travell encouraged Bonnie to experiment further with her theory and her efforts met great success! It can be easily illustrated by a number of examples when patients reported about dramatic health improvements is quite short periods of time with no invasive injections. Over the next few years Bonnie Prudden developed a special training system for the people who practiced myotherapy. Thanks to her efforts and specific understanding of trigger points Bonnie Prudden myotherapy has become most widely known certification program for both US and foreign myotherapists. However, there are other training programs aimed at teaching the principals of myotherapy, but still Bonnie Prudden remains the best. Speaking about Bonnie Prudden myotherapy, it is necessary to tell you a few words about factors causing trigger points and how myotherapy can help to reduce their pain. So, according to the modern medical practice, trigger points can be caused by falls, birth traumas, sprains, strains, occupation, disease, overuse or misuse of certain human body parts, etc. As a matter of fact, trigger points are often seen to lie dormant for years without causing any pain or discomfort. However, in most cases trigger points go into painful spasms with emotional and physical stress. That's why Bonnie Prudden myotherapy session can be an essential option for releasing the pain.