What’s A Muscle Knot?

A muscle knot forms when the muscle is in a contracted position for an extended period of time. The reason muscle knots typically form is from the crystallization of the Lactic Acid in the muscle. Muscle fibers normally are long and smooth. However, in order to create movement, Lactic Acid flushes in from the nervous system causing those smooth fibers of muscle tissue to being to curl up, binding fibers to each other while contracting.

Contraction of muscles = movement of bones

Imagine the Lactic Acid in muscles is kind of like the sugar solution to make rock candy. As the string is soaked, and still, in the sugar solution crystals begin to form on the fibers of the rock candy string. Similarly, Lactic Acid in muscle fibers can create sticky adhesions that form a muscle knot. Much like the string, when we are in a position of contracted muscles without moving for a long period of time these particles begin to form on, and in, the muscle fibers.