Trouble Sleeping?

A lot of people do. The causes are many. Sometimes the problem is muscular and circulatory.

At least that's my experience. When I had tight abdominal muscles, there seemed to be a throbbing that sometimes kept me awake. My theory is the throbbing is your heart trying to force blood into the tight muscles.

When I put ice on the tight muscles, the throbbing went away. Apparently the cold causes something to contract and blood can flow.

Indeed, cold has been used to treat muscular trigger points. Janet Travell, a physician that literally wrote the book on trigger points, used cold to alleviate trigger points.

Resolving trigger points and myofascial adhesions with massage also seems to alleviate the throbbing. Either way, sleeping is much easier when blood can flow freely into your abdominal muscles.

I wonder how many people are taking drugs to sleep when the problem is something completely correctable like tight muscles. We really need MRE.