09/14/2026
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This is where we can chatter more about WELLNESS and your body. Jennee Taylor our massage therapist does a great job at digging deeper into "issues" your body might be having 😉
💪🏻 Muscle Monday 💪🏻
“OMG. I have a HUGE knot right there!
It hurts so bad!! “ 😩
Well, first let’s clear this up:
your muscle didn’t actually tie itself into a tiny little knot.
But it would be an awesome super power if it could! 🦸🏼♀️
What you’re feeling may be what’s commonly called a myofascial trigger point — a particularly sensitive area associated with a taut band of muscle.
And here’s the really interesting part …
👉 If I press on one during your session, it may hurt right where I’m touching.
OR…
👉 You may suddenly say,
“WAIT… I feel that somewhere completely different!”
That’s called referred pain, and that’s why I don’t always spend an entire massage attacking the exact spot where you feel your pain.
🤲🏼 So then what am I doing when I find one?
Depending on what your body needs, I may use:
• Trigger-point work — sustained, tolerable pressure on the sensitive area.
• Massage/manual therapy — working the surrounding muscle and tissues instead of repeatedly beating up one angry spot. 😂
• Myofascial techniques — slower work intended to influence comfort and movement through the surrounding tissues.
• Stretching/PNF — adding movement and lengthening work after the area has been treated.
My goal isn’t to beat the knot into submission. 😂
It’s to decrease sensitivity, improve comfortable movement, work with the surrounding tissues, and figure out what may be contributing to that area getting irritated in the first place - *because then we can adapt each future session to focus on improving your range of motion, and decreasing aches and pains*
Because sometimes that spot screaming for attention…
is only one piece of the puzzle. 🧩
💚 Happy Muscle Monday!
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*Research suggests techniques such as sustained compression can improve pressure-pain tolerance and, in some studies, short-term pain and range of motion. There’s also research supporting combinations of compression and stretching. But massage doesn’t literally squish a knot until it disappears—and the evidence doesn’t support treating tissue like we’re mechanically breaking it apart. (PubMed, 2022)