Eli5: What are muscle “knots”

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How do we get them, and how do therapist massage them out?

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Think of your various muscles as different parts of a tree. Now when a tree absorbs water it’s essentially just different parts of the tree “talking” to each other but the words are the water.

Now when you have a muscle knot, it’s basically as if one part of the tree has gone “deaf” and can’t hear or speak to the other parts of the tree (muscles). A massage is essentially as if you taught that deaf part of the tree “sign language” and allowed it to then communicate once again. Slowly the muscle begins to get more competent with this new form of communication and teaches it to others around him (biotransformation).

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