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WHAT ARE MUSCLE KNOTS?           Muscle knots are small bump or peanut like structures along the bulk of the muscles. These are tightened and contracted fibers of the muscles that remain contracted even when the muscle is at rest. These tensed group of muscle fibers are sensitive to touch and cause pain in other parts or those segments of the body they are adjacent to. Medically they are called as Myofascial Trigger points. TYPES OF TRIGGER POINTS ACTIVE Trigger Point. LATENT Trigger Point. Active Trigger Point : In this the person need not necessarily touch the trigger point to feel the pain. The trigger point will radiate pain even when at rest or placed in a specific position. Latent Trigger Point : In this the trigger point generates pain only when it's been pressed.   CAUSES :- Sedentary lifestyle Overuse injury  Poor postural ergonomics  Dehydration  Unhealthy eating habits  Stress  Anxiety  Prolonged sitting or bed rest  Direct injuries like break, tear, strain, twists, spra

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  WHAT IS MUSCLE TONE?   Muscle tone is the maintenance of partial contraction of a muscle. It is the inherent resistance of the skeletal muscles to passive movement. Muscle tone is the resting tension in a muscle. A few motor units in the muscle continue to contract even in the resting state, thereby causing muscle tone. However this tension is not so strong so as to cause a movement. It is important for generating reflexes, maintaining posture and balance, controlling proper functioning of the organ system.  WHY IS MUSCLE TONE IMPORTANT?  Your muscle tone keeps you prepared to perform any action or movement, helps maintain balance and posture, it generates heat that keeps the muscles healthy and ensures efficient flow of blood to them. Muscle tone allows for a quick unconscious response to any sudden internal or external stimuli.  These are some of the areas in which a healthy muscle tone provides an enhanced productivity,  ● Maintaining a well aligned posture. ● Reduce the risks

During the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, changes occur in the brain's signalling. This results into reduced muscle tone in most of the skeletal muscles. The muscles that function with efficient tone are diaphragm, cardiac muscles, muscles of the digestive system.  Dreaming occurs during the REM phase of sleep. Due to characteristic behaviour of the REM phase of have reduced muscle tone, our body is in the least state of awareness. Thus preparedness to respond to any kind of stimuli is  low. Moreover due to minimal tension in the muscles the muscles are incapable of performing any movements.  When we awake in the REM phase of the cycle, the characteristic low muscle tone, makes us incapable of performing any movements. And we take some time to react to any stimuli that we may have encountered at that time.  That's our ghost in most of the situations  Reference:- Muscle tone regulation during REM sleep: neural circuitry and clinical significance R Vetrivelan  et al.   Arch Ital

  EFFERENCE COPY Did you know that your brain first creates a copy of the movement that your body performs? That's called Efference copy. What is Efference Copy? In physiology Efference Copy or efferent copy is a copy or picture of a movement formed inside the brain that is to be performed by an organism. These act as a movement producing signals generated by the individuals motor systems. In other words our brain is capable of predicting the response to an action. Combined with the sensory input from the individual's movement, Efference Copy helps one to adapt the postural changes by comparing the actual movement with the desired movement. Also it enables the individual to distinguish between self induced stimulus and external stimulus. i.e self movements and non self movements. Eg. One cannot tickle himself but gets tickled when someone else does it. Efferent copies are created by one's own movements and not those of others. Examples of Motor adaptations due to Efference