Contributing Author Program

Attention Heathcare Professionals

If you specialize in treating trigger points and you author articles, essays or books on the topics of Trigger Point Therapy, Myofascial Dysfunction or Self Care, then pressurepositive.com would like to invite you to submit your written material to our Contributing Author Program.

Heal. Teach. Empower.

Healthy communication in the relationship between health professionals and their patients almost always results in the patient/client getting to a higher level of health and wellness.  A better informed patient/client is simply more likely to comply with recommended therapy. There is no better way to build trust in this relationship than to encourage patient education. By explaining complex medical problems in understandable terms, and the benefits and value of suggested therapies and self care techniques, healthcare professionals extend a respectful invitation to their patients/clients to become equal participants in their own treatment and recovery.

Our Commitment to Education

Since 1979 The Pressure Positive Co. has been dedicated to designing high quality self care Massage Tools. In additional to our Self Care Tools, our goal is to provide our visitors with up to date information, written by qualified healthcare practitioners, that will help them use our tools more effectively and to manage their pain as well.

The Pressure Positive Contributing Authors Program

Our goals:

• to provide our users with a specific, highly informative and useful resource for understanding trigger points
• to inform our users on how to prevent the conditions that give rise to trigger points
• to offer our users the option of non invasive treatments for trigger point pain

Our purpose:

• Self care tools. We are a commercial site in that we sell our line of deep tissue manual massage tools directly to consumers. Customers seek our self care tools because they are in pain and want inexpensive, simple and effective ways to help themselves. We are aware that a high number of those users want to know more about their body and about trigger points in particular.
  
• Education. We believe that by providing them with current, relevant information in language that is understandable, they will be more able to take control of the pain that so often dictates how they live their life. A patient/client well educated in self care is more likely to comply with prescribed therapy than one who is not.

We do not charge users to use this site.

• The site is supported solely by The Pressure Positive Company.
• The medical content on this site is written by licensed and certified health professionals who actively practice in their field of expertise.
• We require that authors base their writing on verifiable facts.
• Authors must make sure that they clearly note when stating an opinion or topic that is controversial.

Liability statement:

• The Pressure Positive Company assumes no liability for the informational content on the site.
• The information on pressurepositive.com is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help or advice but is to be used only for further understanding trigger points and their referred pain patterns.
• A qualified health professional should always be consulted for muscle pain or any health problem.

Links

Pressurepositive.com provides links to other organizations and websites as a service to our readers and is not responsible for the information, services, or products provided by these web sites, health professionals, or companies.

Professional Advisory Panel
Pressurepositive.com has assembled an Advisory Panel to consult with us as we develop the informational portion of our website. The Panel is comprised of licensed and certified health professionals who specialize in myofascial pain dysfunction and/or trigger point therapy. In general, their role is to:

• Support the website’s mission of providing relevant, useful and understandable information and services on manual trigger point therapies for people experiencing trigger point pain.
• Provide oversight for health information included on the website.
• Serve as spokespersons to educate the public and manual therapy community about self care.
• Participate in the interactive features on the site, as appropriate and as they develop.

Contributing Authors

Our goal is to continually update pressurepositive.com with new features and articles. We are very interested in including your expertise in the site. For Contributing Authors, we offer:

• Attribution of authorship
• Brief overview of author’s background
• Link to author’s medical website

If you are a licensed or certified medical professional who specializes in treating trigger points with manual, non invasive therapies and would like to contribute to the site, please fill out our Contributing Authors Submission Form.

Editorial Process:

Our editorial process is designed to support the educational goals of pressurepositive.com:

• To provide a highly informative and useful resource for our users and visitors to understand, prevent and manage trigger point pain.
• To provide a value added service for pain management practitioners to educate their patients and promote improved patient understanding and compliance.
• To become the trusted patient resource for trigger point pain education, supplying valuable information that is continually updated with new and useful topics and services.

We request that all submissions from contributing authors be written to support these goals. Submissions must be:

• Independent-all information must be presented in a straightforward manner and without bias, including balanced presentation of material and key facts.
• Factual-all writing must be based on verifiable information and include references, when possible. Topics or opinions that may be controversial must be clearly noted for the reader.
• Medical authorship-All articles included in this site must be written by a licensed or certified health professional. Please include current professional registration information with submissions.

Submissions from contributing authors will be reviewed by at least one other health professional (to be selected by pressurepositive.com). As a service for authors, we provide free editing and proofreading services. All submissions must be sent in electronic format.

• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Adobe PDF (.pdf)

If you are a licensed or certified medical professional who specializes in treating trigger points with manual, non invasive therapies and would like to contribute to the site, please fill out our contact us.
*Please be sure to run a virus scan on your article before sending it to us. *Articles recevied containg any type of Virus are subject to rejection.