Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
Thanks for joining in Knotted - is this the same as scar tissue or are we talking about quite different things? Can scar tissue cause trigger points? Am I just confusing myself like I think I am?
No, scar is scar, and looks just like scars you'd get on your skin. It adapts to the environment, but is never quite the same as the surrounding tissue.

Leave it alone, and it will do just fine. No need to mess with it. (in fact, due to the higher level of collagen -which is a colloidal protein- than elastin, messing with a scar will just make it tougher)

Trigger points are areas where the muscle is stuck in tetany. It's so tightly contracted that it has cut off the capillary circulation to itself, and can't get oxygen nor nutrients. (oxygen allows muscles to release, which is why corpses go into rigor mortis until they start to decompose... no oxygen) Massage or stretching can break the tetany cycle, and allow the trigger points to fade away.

Figure out what you are doing wrong with your posture or technique, and you can eliminate the absurd demand you've placed on the muscles which caused the tetany in the first place.