How is telling patients that they have knots in their muscles any different from telling them they have misaligned, subluxed or unstable joints? Both of these explanations are reductionist and both are wrong. There are NO knots in muscles causing pain! Muscle knots have never been reliably found on palpation or imaging! And if muscle knots do cause pain then why doesn’t paralysing the muscle with Botox reduce or stop the pain in those with trigger points https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16864815/ People don’t have knots in their muscles! People have pain which is a multifactorial and complex process that we don’t fully understand! Stop reducing pain to simplified bull shit explanations because it’s easier for you as a clinician. Accept and tolerate the uncertainty of why things hurt and pass it onto your patients with compassion and care. And while you’re at it stop sticking needles into people! #physiotherapy #physicaltherapy #dryneedling #triggerpoints #bullshit Dr Ayaz Physiotherapy & Multi Speclist Clinic golden trade Center, E-wing, 1st floor, tulinj road, near flyover ending, Nalasopara East, Nala Sopara, Maharashtra 401209 080802 92950 https://g.co/kgs/5iTnjv