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Patient's shoulders have been in the 'up' position since 2019. Massage therapist described them as 'concerning.' Patient carries tension primarily in the neck, the jaw, the lower back, the hips, and the fingers. They thought this was how shoulders were supposed to feel.
Permanent. The body is, apparently, bracing for something.
Untreatable. Yoga provides 11 minutes of relief per session.
Patients with Chronic Shoulder-Knot Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Shoulder-Knot Disorder belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Tensio trapezii permanens, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.