Tender Points

I read it somewhere that Dr Sarno said 99% of tms sufferers will have the tender points. I have not had any but today i noticed i have soreness on the sides of the glutes. Just wondering if most other people have the tenderness or not.

 

Yep, I get ‘em. Glutes, for sure.

 

I don't know if almost every TMSer has them (if Sarno said they do, then he saw enough patients in his time to make me think he was probably right) but tender points were once a key diagnostic tool for diagnosing Fibromyalgia Syndrome and I believe Sarno said that 'Fibromyalgia Syndrome' was the worst manifestation of TMS.

I was diagnosed with so called 'Fibromyalgia Syndrome' in 1997 and I have tender points in all of the specific areas that they used to use for diagnosing it (plus, for good measure, tender points elsewhere too). I think tender points are still taken into account, but I understand that they're no longer the primary method for diagnosing Fibromyalgia. While the American College of Rheumatology initially identified 18 specific tender points to assess pain sensitivity, current diagnostic criteria focus on widespread pain, symptom severity, and ruling out other conditions. These tender points were used to assess pain sensitivity in specific areas of the body, and a certain number of positive responses (tenderness to pressure) were previously required for diagnosis. Fibromyalgia though is actually TMS... no doubt (in my mind anyway) that it is.

Of the 18 tender points there are two tender points in the gluteal area, located in the outer quadrants of the buttocks.

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