{"id":2258,"date":"2022-08-10T23:41:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2022-08-10T23:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:41:32","slug":"heres-how-to-work-out-muscle-knots-according-to-an-exercise-physiologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How to Work Out Muscle Knots, According to an Exercise Physiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine you&#8217;ve just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a bit tired, but all in all, you&#8217;re able to go about the rest of your day just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, you wake up and realize the back of your shoulder blade feels stiff. When you rub your shoulder muscles, it feels like you&#8217;re prodding a little gumball under your skin. Every time you try to move it around, the area feels tight, with slight pangs of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the next few days, your back slowly loosens up and, eventually, your shoulder returns to feeling normal. It&#8217;s probably something you&#8217;d like to avoid or minimize in the future if possible, though. So what was going on with that muscle knot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m an exercise physiologist. The goal of much of my research is to understand how different movements and forms of exercise place stress on the muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/feeling-a-bit-stiff-here-s-how-to-work-out-muscle-knots-according-to-a-exercise-physiologist\">Science Alert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you&#8217;ve just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a bit tired, but all in all, you&#8217;re able&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}