Can you get rid of the muscle “knots” in your upper back that are causing you pain naturally?  You sure can.

All you need to do is figure out exactly why you have those miserable muscle spasms.  I’ll help you.

Here are two of the most common causes of muscle knots in your back.

Knot #1.  Muscle strain.  This can be caused by poor posture.  Poor or collapsed posture can be caused by slouching or by doing a lot of activities with the muscles in the front of your body and ignoring your back muscles.

Knot #2.  Muscle contraction.   This is caused by extensive use of the muscles in your back near your shoulder blades.

Knots #1 and #2 cause two different types of knots or spasms.

• Knot #1 is a protective muscle spasm to prevent the muscle from being stretched too far and ripping.  It has no intention of relaxing and it cannot relax!
• Knot #2 is caused by the muscle ‘getting used to’ being tight or active.  You’ve been holding it in contraction and it’s used to being in contraction so it just stays tight.  This is probably not the most typical cause of knots in your back.

Knot #2 is usually pretty easy to release or relax with pressure.  Laying the painful knot on a tennis ball for several minutes may be all you need.  The pain or symptom is where the contraction or cause is.

But Knot #1 is trickier to release.  In this case you have to release all of the muscles that can be causing your poor back to be over-stretched.  This knot won’t relax because it cannot relax unless all of the other parts of the body that are causing it are treated, too.

You probably have a lot of areas that are contributing to Knot #1 including the fronts of your arms, chest, abdomen and maybe even neck.

In order to get rid of those muscle knots, you have to lengthen the fronts of your arms, chest and abdomen.  You may even have to treat the scalene muscles on the sides of your neck because they can cause the sensation of pain in your upper back.

The last step is to strengthen your back muscles so your back can hold its own against the shorter, tighter muscles in the front of your body when they try to pull you forward and down.

Your muscles want to feel well.  Painful muscle knots in your upper back are a message from your muscles that they are not happy. 🙁

You can get rid of the nasty muscle spasms in your upper back by taking steps to re-balance your body.

If you’d like to discover how to start taking action to get rid of the knots in your upper back–forever–please just click the link. –>  Knots In Your Back