How to find the Travell & Simons' Trigger Point Manuals, editions 1, 2 & 3

A helpful guide to finding each edition in hardcover and digital formats

Jan 21, 2025

The first edition of Travell & Simons’ trigger point manuals were published in 1983 and 1993, with the first volume on the upper extremities and the second volume on the lower extremities. Janet Travell worked with Simons on the Second edition, Vol 1, Upper Half of Body, up until the time of her death in 1997. The book was published in 1999. The Second Edition, Vol 2, Lower Half of Body, was never published. These original volumes are out-of-print. The third edition of the Travell & Simons trigger point manual was published in 2018, twenty-one years after Travell’s death and eight years after Simons’ death.

The first and second editions of the Travell & Simons Trigger Point Manuals are out-of-print, but digital versions may be found online, and hardcover print copies may be found at used bookstores. Here are some helpful details below.

The Travell & Simons Trigger Point Manuals, Upper Half of Body and Lower Half of Body, PDF format, in Google Drive:

2nd_Ed_Vol_1_Upper_Body.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/129rIn54IqRj87Z2ymSqxmsv-D_n2skiY/view?usp=sharing

1st_Ed_Vol_2_Lower_Body.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s5dZtBzXq_EmGjiWNveusdNiZBQz2n1B/view?usp=sharing

Quick links to online texts: Upper Half of Body and Lower Half of Body on Scribd.com. (Sign up for a free trial to download PDFs).

The Travell & Simons’ Trigger Point Manuals; editions 1, 2 and 3.

Travell and Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual. First Edition, Volume 1, Upper Half of the Body, LWW, 1983.

Currently unavailable online in digital format. Hardcover copies may be found in used bookstores and on sites such as Abe Books, Amazon, eBay, and Etsy.

Travell and Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual. First Edition, Volume 2, Lower Half of the Body, LWW, 1993.

The full text is available on Scribd. Download as a PDF or TXT file. 576 pages. Scribd has a 30 day free trial, then $11.99 monthly. Click on the link to view the book on Scribd: Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction - The Trigger Point Manual - Volume 2 - The Lower Extremities PDF

Google Books preview, some pages omitted. Hardcover copies may be found in used bookstores and on sites such as Abe Books, Amazon, eBay, and Etsy.

Travell and Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual. Second Edition, Volume 1, Upper Half of the Body, LWW, 1999.

The full text is available on Scribd. Download as a PDF or TXT file. 1,052 pages. Scribd has a 30 day free trial, then $11.99 monthly. Hardcover copies may be found in used bookstores and on sites such as Abe Books, Amazon, eBay, and Etsy.

Travell, Simons & Simons’ Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual. Third Edition, Volume 1, WK, 2018.

New and used copies of the third edition, published in 2018 by Wolters Kluwer, are available in hardcover, or buy/rent in ebook format on Amazon and on the Wolters Kluwer Health VitalSource Bookshelf.

Google Books preview, some pages omitted.

Have you found other sources for the out-of-print texts? Do you own all four editions? Let us know! Comments welcome.