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Trigger point · Glutes

Piriformis TrP2

Reviewed by Dr. Ryan Rietz, D.P.T. and Dr. John Breyman, D.C.

The piriformis' medial point, at the sacral end of the muscle rather than the hip end. Its referral covers the same ground as TrP1 — deep buttock, sacroiliac region, back of the thigh — and it earns a separate record for the same reason the levator's two points do: it is somewhere else. The muscle runs from the sacrum out to the hip, and a therapist working only the outer half is treating half a muscle. This end sits closest to the sacroiliac joint, which is worth knowing when SI pain is the complaint.

Also known as

  • piriformis trigger point 2
  • medial piriformis trigger point
  • sacral piriformis trigger point