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A member asked:

Was stretching/ felt pinch in shoulder blade/ small lump formed/ what is is and is it bad?

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Dr. Robert Casanas answered

Muscle or blood leak: Could be that you ruptured a small capillary (blood vessel) or stretched a muscle into prolonged contraction and it knotted up, like a trigger point

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Answered 11/28/2017

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