1 min Technique to Get Rid of Muscle Knots in Your Neck and Upper Back! | Doc Cherry

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Touch your upper back muscles, do you feel like its swollen, tense or bumpy? These are called muscle knots. Muscle knot can occur anywhere in your body, but they’re usually most common in your trapezius. These muscle knots are also common to those who are suffering from cervical radiculopathy.
The most common cause of muscle knots is poor posture. We need to constantly remind ourselves that our ear should be at the level of our shoulder, you need to constantly remind yourself until it becomes a habit especially now that majority uses computers and cellphones. If your ear is not in line with your shoulder, you tend to develop the forward head posture and muscles in your neck and upper back must continually overwork to counterbalance the pull of gravity which makes muscles more prone to developing these painful muscle knots. Other causes could also be due to overuse injuries, staying in 1 position for a long time because muscles generally feel best when they are able to move and contract in different positions, so if you are in the same position almost the whole day, you can develop muscle knots. Anxiety and stress can also lead to muscle knots. When your stressed, your muscles tense up, this is a reflex reaction of your body to guard you against injury and pain, but prolonged tension can lead to muscle knots and other conditions like tension-type and migraine headaches which can be due to prolonged muscle tension in your upper back and neck.
In this video you will learn how to relieve muscle knots in 1 minute, it is easy, cost effective and can be done anytime, anywhere.

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