12/27/2022 0 Comments Tiny balls in musclesTo summarize, do figure out why you’ve got a tight muscle knot in the first place. You can keep getting your weekly massage, but you’ve got to pair it up with correctly prescribed exercises. You’ll need to figure out which muscle or muscles the tight knot is compensating for and address those at the same time you work to release the tight knot. If your tight muscle knot is there out of a survival mechanism, it’s going to take a more comprehensive and total body approach to resolve it. In this example, what I’ve found is that the passive methods of releasing muscles (those I mentioned earlier) aren’t very effective at helping you get rid of the problem and you can end up feeling worse, or having pain elsewhere. If you release a knot that is “holding the line” together - you’re asking for trouble. Fascia is still being studied, but one of the theories is that if one muscle group in that fascial line is not doing its job, a different muscle will work extra hard in its place to take up the slack.Įventually, that muscle will get exhausted and tighten up into a knot, because it’s doing more work than it was designed to. It looks like a spider web and one of its main functions is to connect organs and muscles together. Muscles are connected via highly innervated tissue called fascia. This can happen when the tight knot was there compensating for a weak muscle elsewhere. Occasionally, she’ll work her magic to get rid of tight muscle knots only to find the client feels worse after the session. I was just talking to my massage therapist about this, because she’s seen it happen to her own clients. Sometimes, muscle knots exist as a critical compensatory strategy, and if released too quickly, it can set off an array of problems. “Don’t” aggressively release a tight muscle knot until you know why it’s there. Not all muscle knots are meant to be released. Sounds pretty simple, right? Well not so fast.
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