As for what makes them keep coming back, take a look at the Morton's Foot thread...
But also, I know with trigger points anywhere else on my body, if they're not completely worked out, they'll knot right back up again, and the ones in my calves are like hickory nuts buried next to my leg bones, literally. If you've ever tried to crack a hickory nut, you know what I mean. (If you haven't, next time someone serves you hickories, don't even bother with a nutcracker, bring a BFH. Seriously.)
"The Stick" is just too flexible to do anything with them. The opposite knee is too big. If I brace myself against something and use all my upper body strength, I can budge them a bit with one of these, which is considerably stiffer than my Travel Stick. But I can't really get into them except by using the weight of my leg with the Thera-Cane as in Fig. 8 here. As for making them go someplace they'd be able to "come back" from, hasn't happened yet.
I can get the adductors with the foam roller. Deep in the biceps femoris, it's hard for me to balance on a small ball at the same time I've got enough weight on it to make a difference. I can kinda feel them, but not like my LMT makes me feel 'em.
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