What Are Muscle Knots?
Muscle knots: more mysterious than you think! Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to...
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Whether it’s after a long day hunched over your computer or a week of stressing out abouta big test, you probably have had muscle knots before.These knots -- otherwise known as myofascial trigger points -- are pretty much what theysound like: painful spots in your muscles. They’re different from the kind of musclesoreness that shows up a day or two after you exercise.But biologists still aren’t entirely sure what these trigger points are -- or how tofix them.On the one hand, the physical sensation of a muscle knot seems to be real and measurable,and it’s sometimes linked to severe, ongoing pain.The evidence for this comes mostly from magnetic resonance elastography imaging, a form ofMRI that allows researchers to examine soft tissues -- like muscles.The images s...
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Whether it’s after a long day hunched over your computer or a week of stressing out abouta big test, you probably have had muscle knots before.These knots -- otherwise known as myofascial trigger points -- are pretty much what theysound like: painful spots in your muscles. They’re different from the kind of musclesoreness that shows up a day or two after you exercise.But biologists still aren’t entirely sure what these trigger points are -- or how tofix them.On the one hand, the physical sensation of a muscle knot seems to be real and measurable,and it’s sometimes linked to severe, ongoing pain.The evidence for this comes mostly from magnetic resonance elastography imaging, a form ofMRI that allows researchers to examine soft tissues -- like muscles.The images s...
