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So this is a topic that I think I'm pretty qualified in addressing simply because I've been in practice for 30 years and I also trained over 2,500 doctors in my methods.

And this information is very counterintuitive.

It's not taught in schools, and it is highly

effective as you're about to find out. So if you have these muscle knots in the back of your neck

and your in your shoulders up here or your midback, you're going to like this video. So what are

these knots? Well, there are little balls of contracted muscle. And there's so many

gurus out there and so many videos that are talking about, you just need to massage the knot,

do trigger point therapy, use different massage devices to break up these muscle knots. And yeah,

it works for a minute until it comes right back. Now, out of all the patients that I had with muscle knots,

I think I had the most problem with muscle knots for years before I figured this out. So massaging these

little knots, doing hot packs, coal packs, trigger point therapy, stretching the knots,

stimulating the knots, electro-stimulation

is honestly, I think, a big waste of time. So here's what you need to know.

Muscles always work in pairs. Now, there are a lot of muscles that work together, but there are

usually two major pairs of muscle to create motion. Okay. You take a look at your arm, you have the bicep that contracts

and the tricep that extends, and that creates motion. Now, when we're talking about the back

for the neck, that extends the head back, and then the muscles on the opposing side bring the head

forward right here. Now, if we're talking about the upper shoulder area right here,

you have muscles that bring the shoulder up and you have muscles that bring the shoulder down.

And when we're talking about the midback, we have the muscles that bring the shoulders backward,

and then we have these muscles called the pecks that bring the shoulders forward. So the way you need to look at

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