Yeah ~ I was wondering about your book. These stretches are helping me tremendously. Thank you. No one, including my chiropractor, ever addressed tightness on the front side. As a massage therapist, are you really able to feel muscle adhesions? I was told I have one between my scapula and lower trap and another between my lat and serratus anterior ~ both on right side.
I can feel a lot of things, but adhesions I cannot. Maybe what they think are adhesions are just tight muscles. When they press, even lightly, it can feel painful. If they press too hard thinking they will break them without your help, you may become bruised or sore the next day. The idea should be, when they feel a hard muscle, gently press down so you can feel, give you a few seconds to breathe out, and they will feel the muscle release. If they do this spot by spot understanding that you most be able to breathe as they press gently, you muscles will release and your pain will decrease. The scapula has a socket for your upper arm to fit in to it. Whe you raise your arm, the out side chest muscle must release, the rhomboids between your shoulder blade and spine must release so the scapula can rotate as you lift your amr, and the traps on top then can pull the arm up. If the outside chest and rhomboids are tight, you will get pain on top of your shoulder and sometimes running down your arm. On top of that, pifting your arm will be difficult and could result in a frozen shoulder. Let me know if this helps. I can send you more.
Yeah ~ I was wondering about your book. These stretches are helping me tremendously. Thank you. No one, including my chiropractor, ever addressed tightness on the front side. As a massage therapist, are you really able to feel muscle adhesions? I was told I have one between my scapula and lower trap and another between my lat and serratus anterior ~ both on right side.
I can feel a lot of things, but adhesions I cannot. Maybe what they think are adhesions are just tight muscles. When they press, even lightly, it can feel painful. If they press too hard thinking they will break them without your help, you may become bruised or sore the next day. The idea should be, when they feel a hard muscle, gently press down so you can feel, give you a few seconds to breathe out, and they will feel the muscle release. If they do this spot by spot understanding that you most be able to breathe as they press gently, you muscles will release and your pain will decrease.
The scapula has a socket for your upper arm to fit in to it. Whe you raise your arm, the out side chest muscle must release, the rhomboids between your shoulder blade and spine must release so the scapula can rotate as you lift your amr, and the traps on top then can pull the arm up. If the outside chest and rhomboids are tight, you will get pain on top of your shoulder and sometimes running down your arm. On top of that, pifting your arm will be difficult and could result in a frozen shoulder. Let me know if this helps. I can send you more.