Those stiff, painful spots can take up to two weeks to go away on their own. Sophie Walster/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine you’ve just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Imagine you’ve just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a bit tired, but all in all you’re able to go about the rest of ...

Imagine you've just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a bit tired, but all in all you're able to go about the rest of your day just fine. The next morning, you wake up and ...

Maybe you went to bed just fine, but you wake up with hardened, sensitive spots in areas including your neck, shoulders, or back? Or these develop over the course of a day, causing distracting ...

Even if you haven't heard of "trigger points," you probably still know what they is. Basically a fancy way of saying a muscle knot or kink, trigger point therapy refers to easing pain in an area on ...

Many of us will be all too familiar with muscle knots. They’re essentially sore spots that form when bands of muscle become tight and sensitive. You may experience pain all the time or only when you ...

It's a debate that science has yet to find a definitive answer to—but here's what to do if you get one. We sometimes get hard, painful, or tender lumps in our muscles. This is pretty common, and we ...

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An exercise physiologist explains what those tight little lumps are and how to get rid of them. By Zachary Gillen / The Conversation | Published Aug 5, 2022 6:00 PM EDT This article was originally ...

f you’ve ever had a muscle knot, then you’re familiar with that uncomfortable muscle tightness that seems to just be begging for a good massage. But can you have a muscle knot and not know it? And are ...

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