About TRIGGERED
Trigger Release Injection Guide for GP, Emergency and Rural Education and Documentation.
Led by Dr. J. Chhina, the course brings regional anatomy together with patient selection, evidence, risk awareness and clear documentation. The coursebook and the supervised workshop days have distinct roles.
Dr. J. Chhina has performed trigger point injections for nine years and has learned from and trained with a range of sports medicine physicians. Dr. Chhina previously worked at Fortius Sports Medicine, where he headed the Canucks Alumni Health Program.
Clinical studies support a role for trigger point injections in reducing pain in selected patients with chronic myofascial conditions. The course helps you interpret that evidence, choose patients thoughtfully and combine treatment with rehabilitation and reassessment. Study quality and longer-term outcomes vary, and no single injectate has consistently proved superior.
Physicians already licensed in British Columbia. Faculty will confirm eligibility, professional protection and readiness before clinical participation. Other clinician groups are not included in the first pilot.
No. It is didactic education. Procedural practice requires appropriate scope, training, supervision, clinical privileges where applicable and patient-specific judgement.
No. Simulation practice is guaranteed. Clinical activity depends on appropriately assessed patients, consent, safety and individual learner readiness.
The pilot is unaccredited. No CPD or CME credits are being advertised.
No patient information is collected here. A future host clinic will manage ordinary clinical assessment through its own secure systems. Assessment does not guarantee treatment.
Patient-care recording is excluded from the pilot. Any non-invasive demonstration model recording uses a separate consent and production process.
Clinical trials have reported pain relief with trigger point injections, supporting their use in selected patients with persistent myofascial pain after initial treatments have been insufficient. Procedure research is challenging: patients can often tell whether they received an injection, making a procedure-versus-no-procedure comparison difficult to blind. Sham needling or saline injections may also have effects of their own. These challenges help explain uncertainty, but do not establish effectiveness on their own. We review the evidence, expected benefits and remaining questions so you can make informed treatment and consent decisions. Read the clinical evidence review.
Registration remains closed until the date, clinical venue, staffing, coverage and final terms are confirmed. No course place or treatment is reserved through this site.