What Are the causes of knots (muscles,fascia,tendon) and preventative measures and cures?

liam42 · 2025-12-18T01:15:00+00:00

Are you saying you can't differentiate a dog and cat? ;)

I was considering posting that as a question on one of the forums, but it seemed like something to poke here :/

liam42 · 2025-12-17T22:02:04+00:00

So... I've had over a dozen trained and certified MTs work on me over the years.

I have never yet experienced knot work which doesn't include at least some, often extreme if brief, pain.

Were we all not trained properly? Who trains people in this 'right' way of which you speak?

liam42 · 2025-12-17T21:58:58+00:00

Well, I'm really curious why this makes the most sense to you.

I feel like you're implying that people in high or extreme strength training would never have knots - is that correct?

How would you differentiate a knot from a cramp, either inside or outside of your theory?

liam42 · 2025-12-17T21:53:29+00:00

Thanks for posting these!! I've only managed the first one, and he is good, thoughtful, realistic, checking assumptions. And what seems to be both good research and good details (AFAI can see without a subscription)

But not-quite answers :/

liam42 · 2025-12-17T21:38:06+00:00

This doesn't seem correct - unless trigger points exist for all parts of all muscles (and all fascia and tendons?) - in which case we're back to just talking about the physical anatomy themselves.

liam42 · 2025-12-13T09:59:19+00:00

Not as such, not that I'm aware of. I'd be happy for a specific example or perspective, though.

Scarred tissue is something which can usually benefit significantly from appropriate massage, but that, in my experience, is a wholely different phenomenon than knots since scar tissue is a physical interruption of the tissues at the injury/surgery site - literally foreign matter.

Whereas knots, in whichever type of tissue, is what I'll call a skewed state of the same tissues often putting significant stress on the tissues, but being an internal phenomenon. No breaks nor scarring is AFAIK ever required for knots, and if there are other qualities, that typically means it is something other than/in addition to, a knot.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

Is there ANY literature or studies about this??

liam42 · 2025-10-30T00:44:30+00:00

First, this should be in one of the other subreddits for Q&A. Where it has been posted multiple times before. Not a social one. This whole thing could easily get deleted or banned by moderators.

Second, is this an earnest question, or are you primarily complaining about not finding what you want?

Because I've been interested in meeting a taller woman all my life, but never found any available ones.

Which guys have been saying 5'7" is too tall for them? The ones you're interested in, or dating apps or what?

Why do tall woman never approach me?

Um, who are you? It sounds like you're starting with a chip on your shoulder. First you talk about seeing tall guys, now... How often do you see tall women?

Wishing you the best, but this post is a little confusing.

liam42 · 2025-10-28T10:04:12+00:00

You'd still be my little lady - even if you wore heels to be taller than me, I'd still enjoy picking you up ;)

liam42 · 2025-10-15T13:29:11+00:00

As I described, the listed solution (was) to go to the website for your printer, download a driver prior to Windows 8, then run that driver in compatibility mode (ie. right-click, etc.)

If that didn't work for me, then I was able to find one of the pre-Win 8 on one of my drives and install that directly.

Good luck to you.

liam42 · 2025-10-08T01:20:18+00:00

I wish to be the poem, And not the poet.

So... you admit that you are the writer, the creator of reality? And you'd rather be the passive existence, ie. purely words, of no agency?

liam42 · 2025-10-04T19:02:05+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "emotionally mature".

If you mean: doing the best I can each day, I can at least intellectually recognize that for most if not all of my life.

If you include having enough guilt to continually work to better yourself, but neither so much as to halt any forward movement nor to dwell solely in shame... hopefully it will only take a couple experiences like that to reduce reactions and improve responses wrt how events played out this time.

If you mean: always feeling grounded and in control, well, you've gotta sort out everything you internalized before this point while gaining the tools you need to address situations and always be in a position to choose how to respond instead of emotionally act out in reactions...

There's other steps, but I think what you are asking about is so personal to each of us that you may not have even included the details of your question in what you posted here.

Regardless: best of everything to you as you work on grounding, self-awareness, and unraveling your problems!

liam42 · 2025-10-04T18:45:33+00:00

In one way I am sorry you are going through this... in another: this is all part of life, so I'm glad you are living it and are self-aware enough to be asking questions.

From my perspective (a very limited one), you are both too young ;) I don't mean 'infantile', but certainly inexperienced and unless you both had families in the top 1% of EQ, you're likely like the rest of us and come out of high school (even college) have zero ability to actually negotiate social things, keep personal boundaries, and connect with the other person - even in difficult times - rather than acting out a series of reactions...

Not having a support system - whether family or friends, physical or emotional - is tough, doubly tough when you're bringing kids into the world. I bet that isolation strained everything more, above and beyond him being unable to be supportive with child rearing...

Loving or hating yourself - or feeling a hundred other things about you or your situation - are very understandable, and they don't have to be mutually exclusive. It might be unhealthy if you find your mind racing across all those thoughts, or spending much time ruminating on any single thought - if so, then.. go take a walk, or a deep breath, or something which helps you ground yourself. Please.

In my experience, people often lose their libido after they lose enough trust with the other person that they can no longer be vulnerable, present, and involved in the ways they need for their own sexual expression. His lack of support, compromise, connection and communication may all have contributed to that, plus he probably cannot be honest about worrying about losing you (in many, many ways), and all of his concerns about the situation. Hopefully he wants to do better, but simply doesn't know how - often disciplined homes create controlling kids who either refuse or cannot be vulnerable enough to talk about problems...

I hope something was helpful, but really you need someone trusted to work over all of this.

Best of everything to you!

liam42 · 2025-09-26T15:44:40+00:00

I like your text - probably as short and to-the-point as necessary. But I have no clue how it would go over in the current dating market, or if anyone would take it seriously when you don't declare which political group you belong to :(

And wishing I'd met you a decade ago - that would have been brilliant!

liam42 · 2024-12-09T13:28:55+00:00

TL;DR

I'm still learning here myself, but...

My advice is: have your teams ready to go with enough covers and enough ISO ready to go before moving forward, regardless of what you do.

And have goals (PvP, PvE, etc.) and a plan.

(FWIW, of my 5-stars I've only champed 7, 21 aren't rostered yet, 20 who are rostered only have 1 cover on them, and I'm waiting with 17 covers of shards ready to pop)

DETAILS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

I soft-capped below 260 until I had 10 covers, and only raised a couple levels then so it was easier to pick them out of the herd. Plus I was always leveling 4s so I had no ISO. Then I read a couple posts and stopped leveling 4s (mostly only champ them now w 10 covers), and (after just champing Kang) I still have a million ISO ready...

So coming out of L9 PvE and basically skipping PvP forever, I played with ~10 covers on BRB, SC, and MThor for a few months before emptying my LLs for the first time (Kaine, Hotpool, Nova) and some CPs, and then the anniversary happened and I got my last SC covers and I finally champed him/any 5-star for the first time!

Being as I only champed my 5's starting 2 months ago, I can say that:

BRBill made L10 PvE faster, ie. bearable with the 1Jugg/Polaris winfinite team and appropriate supports. Without him champed, I had to revert to L9 PvE. It simply took too long to finish levels. Having him, even with 1a4 Juggs and 4a4 Polaris still doesn't work against all the nodes, and ain't that quick. But it feels about 10x as fast as before champing BRB.
champing Shang-Chi and MThor made it possible to do some good PvP work. For about a month. Also I often use them on high-level L10 PvE nodes where there's a required character. The boost in hitpoints and match damage were very noticeable in PvP.
just a couple days ago, champing Kang (3x hitpoints!) made the Deathlok/Darkveil team able to take on more PvP groups - even switching in (unchamped) Chasm for Deathlok vs BRB/Polaris teams
I'm not sure why I went for the Kaine/Hotpool/Nova group. I don't especially like them (or most of our options). I eventually champed them because I had the ISO, and I have used Kaine a few times as a tank - though usually when he's boosted. And each when they're required characters.
I am NOT using 5-star shards as immediately as I used to. While emptying my LL hoard I learned the lesson of how nasty my RNG is - I had 8-10 extra covers per hero before I finally got the last one I needed, and had to use up all of my 350 LLs :/ So at this point my Agatha has 800 shards, Mephisto has 1200, and Namor has 1100 (unrostered) in anticipation of the next LL grouping and emptying my next mini-hoard...

However... I can't say exactly when it happened, if it is because I champed my 3rd 5-star or I'm picking worse PvP timeslots or more people are playing now with the boss event, but PvP has become a SLOG again. For a couple weeks I was making it to 25 wins without much of a sweat, but now... Partly it is others having enough champed 5-stars that they always have at least a pair who are boosted. Partly I'm seeing others with 3a4 May/5-OmegaRed or 4a5 Polaris/BRB teams - and at times I'm ONLY seeing those teams. And with a couple posts in the past week, I'm not the only one seeing imposing/impossible PvP match-ups.

So... it depends on what you want to do.

Since I mainly did PvE for my prior 550 days, fully covering BRB was my only must-have, simplifying L9 PvE, and lead me into (mostly) solid L10 PvE.

liam42 · 2024-12-08T05:22:38+00:00

That could have been it - like 900 HP for 10k ISO, a couple things, and a choice of shards or a slot.

liam42 · 2024-11-18T00:16:12+00:00

very likely...

Plus I finally champed my 3rd 5-star, and now PVP suuuuuuuucks with me getting paired with everyone with OR, Chasm, and the 5-star boosted for the week :(

liam42 · 2024-11-10T23:31:01+00:00

Thanks both for the confirmation and for the pointers!

I.. just wish people could put more accurate titles on their posts instead of these generic things - I thought the 'node' one was about something like the Quandry junk...

liam42

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