ELI5- why do “stress knots” happen?

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What exactly are these knots and why do they occur? Why do they occur in the shoulders and not other areas of the body? Does everyone get them?

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Physio here. We don’t know what they are. Classicical theories of “triggerpoints” have little evidence.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/6/348

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