Sometimes it is confusing as to why we feel tight or have pain in certain areas and you may ask " why the hell do I have pain there?"  When dealing with chronic tension or pain it is important to eliminate as many stresors as possible and without some basic understanding of how muscles create movement that can be difficult.  Hopefully this article will help you to understand the different ways a muscle may contract and help you to use your body more efficiently. Muscles are specialized to shorten toward their center and this is contraction. There are 3 ways a muscle will attempt to shorten toward it's center: concentrically, eccentrically, and isometrically. A concentric contraction is when a muscle is successful in shortening toward it's center and when this [...]