Trigger point therapy “could suppress cardiac arrhythmias. Travell’s colleague and co-author of their books, David Simons, MD, Myofascial pain and dysfunction, the trigger point manual, commented: Her successful outcomes led her to believe that she was treating more than somatic pain she believed that she was also influencing aspects of the cardiac pain itself: “in patients suffering from the pain of myocardial infarction convinced her and her colleagues that the treatment could stop both non-cardiac pain of muscle origin and true cardiac pain of coronary insufficiency.”(9) This understanding is important because if true, it would mean that trigger point therapy was influencing aspects of the sympathetic nervous system.
#TRAVELL AND SIMONS POSTERS SERIES#
Travell and colleagues reported a series of clinical outcomes following trigger point treatment in cardiac patients (6, 7, 8). Her interest in musculoskeletal pain came about as a consequence of the neck, trunk, shoulder, and arm pains her cardiac patients suffered (5).
#TRAVELL AND SIMONS POSTERS PROFESSIONAL#
In the first three decades of her professional career she practiced cardiology while teaching pharmacology at Cornell. Interestingly, she was the first female to graduate from Cornell. In 1926, she received her MD degree from the Cornell University Medical College in New York City, where she graduated at the head of her class. Janet Travell was born in New York in 1901, the daughter of a physician. Travell was the first female physician to hold this prestigious office (2, 3, 4).ĭr. Travell to be his personal White House Physician. When Kennedy was elected president of the United States (taking office in 1961), he chose Dr. The following year, Kennedy came under the care of myofascial pain expert Janet Travell, MD. He nearly died, and his recovery took 8 months. In 1954, Kennedy underwent an attempted spinal fusion operation, and it went badly it was his second spinal surgery for his persistent low back pain. Kennedy’s back problems never fully recovered. Injured (he was awarded the Purple Heart for the event) Kennedy twice swam for miles in the Pacific Ocean, towing an injured crewmember with a life jacket strap in his teeth. His back problems significantly worsened by his legendary heroism in August of 1943 during the sinking of his boat PT-109 in the Pacific during WWII. Kennedy suffered from a notorious bad back. She has been referred to as “the mother of myofascial trigger point knowledge”(1). Travell was an early pioneer in understanding the science, pathophysiology, and treatment of myofascial problems. Myofascial problems and its consequent symptoms are nearly a universal human experience.Her notoriety is attributed primarily to two events: Janet Travell, MD, is one of the most recognized physicians of modern history.
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