An Author Amongst Us

Many of you will have seen Dr Mark Hocking or Dr Pam Short treat the trigger points of your limping dog or cat. Trigger points are localised “knots” that develop in the muscles, which are a common but under recognised cause of pain and lameness.

Mark has a keen interest in the mechanisms that cause trigger points to form and in the way that trigger points are treated. He has extensively researched these fields for approximately seven years. He has prepared a lengthy scientific paper which outlines his understanding of these mechanisms and introduces a variety of new concepts.

This paper has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, an extremely prestigious journal which is the principal international human medical journal dealing with trigger points and chronic muscular pain. It is very unusual for an article of this type to be accepted from an author who is not a full-time academic, and indeed is not a human medico.

Well done, Mark- we’re very proud of you!