Autobiography of janet travell md case

I came across this description of Janet Travell: “Janet Graham Travell was an American physician and medical researcher.” While this is true, it is a painfully inadequate summary of the extraordinary human being that happened to be my grandmother.

As I’m no expert on myofascial trigger point therapy, I write this as an amateur historian, as someone who grew up with Janet Travell, and as someone who cares very much that her legacy is accurately preserved, reflecting her true contribution to medicine and to society.

Recently, I picked up a copy of Bonnie Prudden’s book, Pain Erasure, The Bonnie Prudden Way, which was originally published in 1980, and I was baffled to read Bonnie’s summation of Janet Travell’s discoveries:

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Travell had pioneered a medical discipline called trigger point injection therapy. In this therapy, the doctor usually probes with a finger until a tender spot, indicating the presence of a trigger point, is found. The spot is then injected with a solut