The reasons why we get knots, or those painful tension lumps
and bumps in your muscles, are largely due to repairing damaged muscle, and
reinforcing areas that consistently have repetitive stress. When we
repetitively put our bodies in certain positions/ do repetitive actions our
body will reinforce the area similar to when we build muscle - microtears occur
and our body lays down collagen fibres to repair them. These fibres and
reinforcement are placed down in a crisscross pattern which creates a
knot. Massage helps to straighten out these fibres and encourage them to heal
in an ideal parallel pattern. This is like emptying a box of wooden matches and
running your hand back and forth over them, they will then go from a random
pattern to parallel. The reason is our bodies do this is to strengthen, and
protect the body. Working out - specifically when focusing on muscle building,
these muscle tears end up being the building blocks of building muscle. When we
have repetition with stress, like the postural positions we take while working
for long hours, that is when our bodies create an unhealthy knot. The good news
is Omnia Wellness offers great therapeutic massage with a great element of
relaxation to help combat those painful knots!
