![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslToday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kartiksg gave me a very painful, hopefully very therapeutic back rub. He told me that muscles "clicking" are a sign of knots.
So I have multiple knots in my back (though not as many as before Kartik started), which is apparently a common symptom in the cluster, especially among people taking "OS" (stress + sitting for a long time). I wonder if they are knots in the literal sense. Doing some Googling, I found pages on "muscle knots" / "myofascial trigger points" (1, 2), which seem to be fat, painful bits in stringy muscles. Does that picture correspond to that funny round lump next to my shoulderblade? The multimedia isn't good enough yet.
A collaborative massage group at CMU sounds like an excellent idea. Students can't afford to pay for professionals, but they can trade with other students, for significant health benefit. I'd like someone to start this club. They should make sure, when advertising, that nobody gets the wrong idea. Maybe the right way to start it would be in the context of a class: people will need each other to practice on. From there, we just have to make sure they won't go away when they graduate.
kartiksg gave me a very painful, hopefully very therapeutic back rub. He told me that muscles "clicking" are a sign of knots.So I have multiple knots in my back (though not as many as before Kartik started), which is apparently a common symptom in the cluster, especially among people taking "OS" (stress + sitting for a long time). I wonder if they are knots in the literal sense. Doing some Googling, I found pages on "muscle knots" / "myofascial trigger points" (1, 2), which seem to be fat, painful bits in stringy muscles. Does that picture correspond to that funny round lump next to my shoulderblade? The multimedia isn't good enough yet.
A collaborative massage group at CMU sounds like an excellent idea. Students can't afford to pay for professionals, but they can trade with other students, for significant health benefit. I'd like someone to start this club. They should make sure, when advertising, that nobody gets the wrong idea. Maybe the right way to start it would be in the context of a class: people will need each other to practice on. From there, we just have to make sure they won't go away when they graduate.