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how-do-knots-form?
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How do knots form?
My wife usually has a lot of knots, especially when anxious.
After watching Hank's anatomy video on the sliding filament model of muscles,
it seems like it could be caused by capllaries getting blocked and
muscle cells not having the oxygen to create ATP to pump calcium back
into the sarcoplasmic rediculum. This would mean that troponine never goes back
into place and that myosin stays bound to the
actin, causing the muscle to stay tight and
block the capillary that feeds it.
Is this true, resonable but unconfirmed, or am I off-base here?
Are they actually caused by action potentials from nerves?
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