Do you regularly suffer from recurring neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, pelvic pain and/or headaches? Most people get used to it and take a hot bath, go to bed early or take painkillers to temporarily relieve the pain. These are often muscle knots that give a typical radiating pain.
THE ULTIMATE FRISK SOLUTION: a trigger point massage. With a trigger point massage, your symptoms will be history in no time and you will soon be able to resume your daily activities without pain!
Treating muscle knots requires special massage techniques that all therapists at FRISKFYSIO own. Fortunately, muscle knots have a predictable radiating area and a lot of research has been done on them! For a trigger point massage, you have come to the right place!
Our first goal in a trigger point massage is obviously to relieve your pain so that you can function ''normally'' again. Besides getting rid of your pain, a trigger point massage also relaxes muscle fibres at the level of the muscle node itself and various tissues around it. These include skin, fasciae (connective tissue) and fatty tissue. Blood flow also increases substantially in the area of the massage, draining all kinds of waste products and bringing in new nutrients.
Usually after just a few treatments, we see recovery occur in the muscle and can start increasing the load capacity so that your proverbial 'bucket' does not overflow again.
When you overload your muscles for a long time or use them in a way they are not meant for, trigger points (muscle knots) can develop. This can happen acutely or gradually over time. Your living environment and diet are also important factors when it comes to developing muscle knots. Together, they can cause disturbances in cell metabolism, the nervous system and hormone balance.
Below is an overview of some physical causes.
Often a muscle knot feels like a deep and penetrating pain that just won't go away. When you make an unexpected movement, this pain can also become stabbing and cause several muscles to cramp up completely at once. A trigger point/muscle knot in the muscle, keeps the entire muscle (group) tense day and night, preventing it from resting and recovering.
The most common symptoms are stiffness of neck and shoulders, backache, buttock pain and RSI complaints. In addition, a muscle knot can also cause attachment problems of a tendon to the bone and cause inflammation. Here you can think of a tennis elbow, a tendinitis in the shoulder or Achilles tendon complaints. When multiple muscle knots are present in a muscle, it functions a lot less well than the original. As a result, the muscle has to work harder to deliver the same force, eventually creating more knots again because you are constantly compensating.
