Take it with a grain of salt but I dropped 50 bucks on one of those beck massager things, with the four rotating heated balls. Literally changed my life. All the knots, all the pressure, gone after a week. 10min a night. I still bust it out once every blue moon, but I cannot overstate how bad I used to be, grabbing my neck and feeling rock hard muscles from 8h of insane work stress, trying to massage it out manually. Now it's pretty chill. Just imagine going to bed and not having constant muscle pain.