Hi Jeff, I highly recommend checking out "trigger point therapy", specifically the "Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" by Clair Davies (~$20 online, third edition is best). The thesis of the method, based on research by Janet Travell (known in part for having been JFK's personal physician) is that much joint/soft-tissue pain is referred from small muscular contraction knots in other parts of the body, and that the pain can be fixed by finding those knots and massaging them. I used to suffer from a wide range of chronic pain (elbow, knee, ankle, wrist - you name it), and I would say that self-applied trigger point massage as described in the book I mentioned... (read more)
Hi Jeff, I highly recommend checking out "trigger point therapy", specifically the "Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" by Clair Davies (~$20 online, third edition is best). The thesis of the method, based on research by Janet Travell (known in part for having been JFK's personal physician) is that much joint/soft-tissue pain is referred from small muscular contraction knots in other parts of the body, and that the pain can be fixed by finding those knots and massaging them. I used to suffer from a wide range of chronic pain (elbow, knee, ankle, wrist - you name it), and I would say that self-applied trigger point massage as described in the book I mentioned... (read more)