Since A mentioned trying the tennis balls too...
I couldn't find a tennis ball. Further research identified one more reasonable sounding website that suggested laying on a foam cylinder with it perpendicular to the spine and rolling back and forth on it so that the cylinder massages the painful part. Needless to say, I didn't have a foam cylinder either, so I went looking for substitutes. I found a basket ball. I tried placing the basket ball against the wall and my back against the ball and leaning into it. The floor worked better. I'm not sure I'd say that this fixed me, but the next morning when I woke up, my back cracked loudly in the vicinity of the knot and then felt miraculously better. It's still kind of sore, but not in the constantly painful way that it was.
I still have not determined whether myofascial trigger point syndrome is a real thing.
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I'm glad it is potentially better? I question the fibromyalgia thing too as a doctor tried to tell me that I have it...ummph! Hope your back gets all the way better!
I have a short foam cylinder. It's great for hamstrings.
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