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- And again! More muscle knot squishing science, different experiment, same results
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Ouch! Muscle causes most of the world’s aches and pains. This blog is about the “acne” of muscle tissue: muscle knots, or myofascial trigger points. RationalMusclePain.info is updated quite frequently.
Beam up to the mothership: SaveYourself.ca
This blog is a small outpost of a much larger website, SaveYourself.ca, which is devoted to ethical health science education about many kinds of pain problems. I believe in compassionate, humourous, rational health care and constantly encourage my readers to ask whether expensive therapies really work.
Author bio
<p>I am Paul Ingraham, a Canadian science journalist and retired Registered Massage Therapist. I have been up to my eyeballs in the science of pain problems since about 1997 and have written several books and hundreds of articles. I am a libertarian atheist, a science and technology junkie, and jolly curmudgeon. I have a beautiful wife, a beautiful cat, and a nasty habit of getting injured playing the absurdly intense Frisbee sport “ultimate,” which helps me relate to my injured readers.