DIGGING Out ALL Her DEEPEST Muscle KNOTS Tight Spine ASMR Chiro ( subscribe chanel )

“What’s that knot and why does it hurt so much when you press on it?” If you spend any time doing soft tissue work, you have inevitably heard this come out your client’s mouth. When looking at the body and its sources of dysfunction, muscle tissue is the main target for the wear and tear of daily activity. Our skeletal muscles account for nearly 50% of our body weight and depending on how you divide them out, consist of 200 paired muscles. That’s 400 muscles, any of which can develop those “knots” or trigger points and cause significant pain and dysfunction throughout the body. massage-389716.jpg The existence and documentation of the “knots” or myofascial trigger points has been around for quite a long time but our understanding of them has evolved piece by piece. Because of their uncharacteristic presentation, they have been discovered numerous times under a variety of names with the modern theory of myofascial trigger points taking shape in 1942 thanks to Janet Travell. The Cause Your next question might be - What happens to the muscle to cause a trigger point? The pathology of trigger points is that they arise from some sort of overload to a muscle. This overload can arise from several different sources including: Acute – excessive or unusual activity Sustained – postural stresses, structural abnormalities, leaving a muscle in a shortened position for an extended period of time Repetitive – repeated movement, especially with biomechanical faults These sources can occur in a variety of settings from occupational, athletic, to other underlying pathologies. The overload to the area does not have to be physiologic. Psychological and emotional stresses can also cause an overload to an area.