Detecting Tight Muscles

A reliable scientifically accepted diagnostic test that detects tight muscles would bring greater attention to this problem and its many effects in the body.

Scientists are working on this, using the magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), which can produce images of tissue showing relative stiffness. Wikipedia has an article on trigger points and MRE. and here's the study mentioned on NIH.

This is awesome and hopefully these efforts will succeed. If not, robots will eventually be used to do this same task, albeit with less effectiveness. Many muscles are not easily accessible and magnetism goes everywhere.

Would have been nice to have had such a test back in 1990 (18 years ago) when I first experienced the problem.