https://nitter.net/Peds_Ortho/status/1555888147992641536?t=EO3725veWbo51zaJPstwAQ&s=19

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Just go to a massage therapist. I don't even know if massage therapy is real or bullshit but presumably you'll get a nice massage out of it.

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      Like, literally, knots do form in muscles in places that its just easier to work out by having somebody else do the rubbing. So 100% useful if can stand people rubbing you and hurting you at the same time.

      • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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        2 years ago

        idk if it was a knot in the muscle or what but I had chronic leg pain in my right calf that literally lasted for over a year and would keep me up at night, not like super painful but just always noticeable, centered around what felt like a golf ball sized area in the center of my calf, until I fucking rubbed and squeezed the everloving fuck out of it and it hurt so fucking bad like an 8/10 (10/10 is probably appendix almost exploding because my parents didn't want to listen to middle school me shouting "take me to the fucking hospital" until a nurse friend told them to) but then it finally went away forever except now I have a similar pain in my left calf and I really hate it

        part of me was worried it was a blood clot or something but hey I didn't die of an embolism so score one for me ayyyyy

        • D61 [any]
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          2 years ago

          I had a similar issue when I threw my back out. I think it might have had something to do with the sciatic nerves that were being fucked by my slightly slipped disk. After I got to the point that my pack pain wasn't so insane the knot in my calf was less but still needed some deep tissue massaging to get the muscle to loosen up.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They're actually having trouble reproducing a lot of he findings about trigger points right now lol

        • D61 [any]
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          2 years ago

          Chiropractors or massage therapists?

          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Massage therapists and doctors of osteopathy (since they both use that particular therapy)