How to treat scalene muscle trigger points - trigger points - how to self treat trigger point pains
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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Your neck pain may be coming from your scalene muscles. This instructional video shows you how to treat scalene muscle trigger points in the front of the neck. After watching this video, you will be able to self treat using just your hands.
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Myofascial trigger points, also known as trigger points or muscle knots, are described as hyperirritable spots in the fascia surrounding skeletal muscle. In the scalene muscles, they can be responsible for many 'bizarre' and strange symptoms. The scalene trigger points can contribute to chest pain pain between the shoulder blades, shoulder pain radiating down the arm, thoracic outlet syndrome and carpal tunnel syndrome conditions.
That's why its important to know exactly what you are doing when you self treat this area. You can simply use your hands to self treat your trigger points at home with our simple pain relief technique.
Here are few key points to remember about scalene trigger point therapy:
Be careful not to hit the nerves. If you feel a numbness down the arm to the fingers, stop right away.
Make sure you find all the knots that may be contributing to your muscle pain. We show you how you can do this with our simple technique.
Always self treat the trigger points before you begin stretching or strengthening. You should begin to feel some relief from the muscle knots first. Then you can slowly begin stretching.
If you're looking for more information on how you can find and treat muscle knots in the neck, check out our detailed article that walks you step by step to getting muscle pain relief. Visit us at goo.gl/Y8J24k
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This is Insane, My scalene muscle tightens up from anxiety. I've cured social anxiety mentally/psychologically but physiologically it kept my voice tonality pretty weak, unconfident and uncompelling during interactions. This is a godsend, my voice literally feels so much more louder brimming with conviction with so little effort. Genuinely Thank you.
its crazy how anxiety can affect the muscles intern affecting the voice ive been singing and screaming sense 16 then my voice just stopped being able to do everything felt harsh ive been waiting years for it to heal and only until after releasing muscle knots around the throat wall has it started healing feeling more confident now about possibly being a vocalists i thought that dream was dead
I am having the same as u described, how did you cure yourself
@@Krish_1222just be confident and be yourself
Huh..! Please Quit smoking, drugs & alcohol. Hope u recover soon mentally/psychologically. But, can u live without consuming such substances? 😂
exactly right! i deactivate these trigger point frequently, esp when i treat anxiety! cheers!
15yrs of muscle tightness and pain, I've tried chiropractos, acupuncture, inversion table, ice packs, heating pad, percussion massage gun, tennis ball, foam rollers, and even nerve ablation, nothing worked. Recently tried PT, helped somewhat, but still had a lot of tightness in the upper-mid back. doing this for just a few minutes and my entire upper-mid back muscles relaxed! TY
Oh my Lord, I had this pain on back of left side neck and this person just gave me my life back. I had this for many yrs geez, Just one lesson on how to make it going away, just gave me my life back. Thank you soo much God bless you. Praise God Amen thank you Jesus Amen I'm very excited, I couldn't sleep on any of my beautiful different kind soft or fluffy or flat or stern pillows without waking up with a whiplash . Guys I really those I was going to die from a stroke because this is how horrible this pain was to me. Too many long yrs.
Bro it's it totally solved 🤕plz reply me
I could cry, seriously thank you so much! I got instant relief in my medial scapula as soon as the scalene released 😭 I can’t believe I didn’t think to work on myself
Had ice pick pain in my shoulder for months. Massage didn't get rid of it. Traveled up to the base of my skull and was giving me headaches so I researched it and came across this video. Did the massage twice (first time was crazy-intense!) and the pain is GONE. It's been gone of over a month now. Completely. Thank you SO much!! Wish I'd found this sooner!
Thank you so much, ive had chronic pain for weeks and presto in a second it was gone. Many thank yous!
that's great to hear Vita-Rafaela!
Thank you so much! I was having a flutter in my ear for a few days due to some kind of muscle tension in my neck, and just after briefly pressing on the spots you've indicated, it stopped it immediately. You've really brightened up my day! Thank you so much.
Was it like a pulsing? Like you could hear your heartbeat ?
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Woah, that eye technique was crazy! I have a rotated pelvis, torso, and upper thorax. My neck and scalenes are very tight. I did the eyes up and inhale, down exhale and didn't feel anything noticeable. When you said to do the opposite, my whole body untwisted on exhale. I did it a few times to make sure this was really working. Thank you so much for this video and the stretch video.
Thanks man you don't know how much you just helped me
Bad trigger points in my back and over my ribs. I've been going to PT and she says it is postural (I believe it). Pain has been REALLY BAD lately, despite tons of exercises and treatment. I did as this video instructed and BAM, extreme relief from all my pain symptoms (though the bad, knotty TrP in my shoulder remains, ofc).
THANK you. This is only one small part of my collective myofascial issues but you just made my life so much more liveable while I try to sort the rest of it out long term.
This was the FIRST helpful Video and helped me a lot. I have been struggling with a lot of pain and stiffness in the neck area. This was super useful!
Amazing instructions! I was able to self adjust and I'm amazedddd how connected this trigger was to other pain points. Thank you for sharing!
I have a book on this but I needed a visual - your video was by far the most practical and helpful. Thank you!
I am forever grateful that you made this video. Thank you! 🙏🏽
Thank you so much you saved my life with this tips 🙏🙏🙏
This guy is awesome. I’m subbing right now.
You deserves more subscribers
WOW. I have suffered from a pain in my neck for more than two years following a minor injury to the top of my spine. It has not responded to stretching and other forms of massage. I have been massaging as recommended for a week and the pain and tightness have eased greatly. Thank you. Thank you
Glad it could help! But don't forget that stretching and strengthening can actually help a lot more once you get rid of the muscle knots. So you may want to start stretching and strengthening again after you find that you're reached your maximum improvement. If it still feels bad with stretching, then you'll know that massaging may be the only thing to do. Good luck!
Dude what???? I had 6-8 months with discomfort on my right side of my neck. Tried everything. This gave me instant relief. Thank you very much
I have same problem did get any solution bro
i thought i damaged my vocal cords or had a throat thyroid...
but i felt pain on the sides of my neck too so i searched why does the front of my neck hurt instead, thank god i found this
This guy's helps us so much
Helps with my neck aches with TOS. Also find, even though it's a tad awkward, using a tennis ball and rolling along a wall down the side of the neck and top of collarbone can help as well.
Those are some great points. A little trick I use with a tennis ball is find a lumpy pillow and place it againt the wall and the ball on top of the pillow. Play around with the thickness of the pillow to the point that you don't have to lean in with your neck as much. I can hit the spots standing straight up in stead of flexing my neck to the side to hit the spots. With this, it's harder to 'roll' but great for finding knots and holding the ball in place. I might do another video to show that. Thanks for the great feedback!
@@WizardofhealthNetResource yes, do it! It is awkward to get that side of the neck , but I notice the scalenes respond well to it and maybe combine it with a chest demo as well, that helps alot as well. I think this is a fairly safe technique as long as you don't cause yourself pain
TY so much, I have been seeing a Massage therapist and she says I have been experianceing Refered pain, and she hit my scalene muscles in my shoulders ..this has been great ty so much
Glad it could help Mike!
Thanks for this video
Thank you internet
Trigger point release game changer THANK YOU!
I just got this on the left side of my neck for the first time in my life
Same
What is cure
I have same problem
Same
Same, and its very disturbing 😕
Same bro it's pain
Great video. Scalenese are very overlooked by many bodyworkers....I like to do dry needling on these guys....
My neck just hurts at that exact spot but it also hurts to swallow and sometimes my chest starts hurting when I swallow as well. I recently started workout out and I had a pull day today and I think I pulled this muscle. But idk why my throat hurts and I’m getting chest pain. But this is definitely helping the front neck pain. Lmk if anyone has any more advice
How are you now???
Wow, This is Amazing!
I’m an esthetician and my neck really needed this. Thank you😀
Thank you! Videos like these are really important in a world full of computer work
Hi I am a Massage Therapist & I just did it on myself & it worked instantly
You're an absolute wizard!!!! Thank you!
Thanks! People should look into forward neck posture or syndrome. It's a flippin epidemic. I am hypermobile and suffer from extraordinary neck and shoulder issues. Learning how these muscles and tendons interact, I have discovered that just alone is affecting my quality of life! It actually can cause depression (Just one of the symptoms!!) while the trigger points are activated even subtly! Also, just a tight muscle in the shoulder can make the affected side elbow and thumb sore! Weird huh?
I feel at the bottom of this muscle. There feels like a hard bone popping up that shouldn’t be there. If i put pressure on it or move it, it hurts, what could have happen?
you can not imagine what a hurt after i touch that side of neck doc thank you can u suggest to me smthng
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH .
Very helpful!! My neck and shoulders were very sore & now they barely hurt!! ☺️
I have gone to er and was given x-ray and shows my arteries inflame. I was very scare thinking I was going to die from aneurysm . Praise Jesus Amen
Great content and delivery - 4 minutes and I have a whole new way to treat the tight neck.
Your video is helpful. Thank you for mentioning avoiding the artery. I've made that mistake before. How long is it safe to massage at one time? I've massaged too long before and caused inflammation.
A few days ago I found out why I've been sick for several years. It has gotten gradually worse until just a few months ago I began waking up just after drifting off with a feeling of suffocation. Lately, my arm started going numb and tingling at night and the suffocation sensation increased to several times before I'd finally fall asleep. Just yesterday, I figured out that tight scalenes have been pulling up on my rib cage and entrapping the artery and nerves in my neck when I lay down.
Oh wow, I've been having similar issues. Thanks for posting this because I always thought there was some kind of connection.
When I press the lower end near the collarbone, I sometimes get a sensation either behind my scapula (where I usually have painful knots) or (less commonly) around my deltoid. Is that normal? Or am I pressing in the wrong place - perhaps a nerve? Thanks for your informative videos.
Same! If you press on the scalene and you feel the same knot/pain in your scapula area, you are doing something right. I have pain in that area to, and this massage technique in this video has helped me get rid of that pain which helped with my muscle imbalances in my back.
ive been trying to figure out how to release these for about a year now theyve been fucked full of knots for a couple years. thank you!!! got my mobility back feels like i could punch someone with my shoulder now🤣
Yes! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
My sternocleidomastoid is in spasm and its agony, usually its fine after a few minutes... been 20 now... swallowing is agony...
I've been having pain in my right collarbone everytime I do chest exercises like bench press or fly, especially if I push my chest out and adduct my arms to my midline.
Saw this and felt KNOTS all over my right scalene. Thanks a ton!
Same me...app ko thik hua kayse
Wow! That really felt good. I got some real relief from the pain and stiff neck.
Tremendous relief , thanks a lot
Wow. Thank you so much for immediate relief .... and for teaching me how to do this
Excellent! Just what I needed!
I did what you said, now I have a numb feeling on the left side of my right elbow.. I could really feel the trigger point tho. I have a headache for a very long time so that’s why I tried.
This video helps me a lot thank you so much.
holy shit this works you just found a hack for the human body 😂
Thank you soooo much sir its gone traction of sec
Thanks man ,your technique is super
Thank you so much Sir Yu are very skillful n brilliant ...within second i got relieaf
Can someone please help me. I don't know what this is and I have been trying to look it up but it's this weird uncomfortable feeling in the throat area where he was showing u and it is so annoying that I have to put a pillow or blanket between me jaw and throat. If u know what this is please tell me, I just want it to go away😢
Do you have acid reflux? Heartburn?
Welp that worked, i really had to press into those points, dont stop till you feel it in the rhomboids. Make sure you dont press those arteries or nerves stay on the muscle. Definitely helped
Thank you so much for this
EXCELLENT WORK !
this is amazing i cant sleep tonight tnx to this
shit !
i just came from my PT, he did a tens session and a massage on the left scalenes for my thoracic outlet syndrome. came back home, my right side was unbalanced so i wanted some relief there, i just did that and it is even more released than my left side.
thanks a lot
glad it helped!
thank you. such as simple and effective video.
thanks! Glad it was able to help
Thank you! God bless
Hi I also feel pain in right side of my head but also in my neck too where you explained in this video, do you think it’s all connected?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
More than 12 years and I have symptoms of dizziness, headache, eye abnormality and I went to dozens of doctors and he did not find me a treatment and it is considered that I knew that the cause of these symptoms is SCM I tried stretching exercises and my symptoms improved significantly, but my question is is stretching safe for this muscle because most say that putting the head to stretch scm causes complications in the cervical vertebrae and I tried this massage of trigger points, but the symptoms were very large so that I could not bear them and then I decided Continue for 14 days and the bad symptoms increased so what should I do
Thanks
I think it's working..thank you sir..from 🇳🇵🇳🇵
Very good thanks that sure helps
Thank you so much
I got dizzy later in the day after I did this. Is that normal? the trigger therapy felt good at the time.
HI Wizzard, I have a question. If you have the SCM and Scalene muscles very tense, there is a chance you can suffer shortness of breath when you bent your head forward? Thanks!
I just got this for my first time is it super bad to get ? Will it come back often
I realize this video is old, but I've been dealing with neck pain for a loooooong time. I've fixed a lot of stuff but I still have a very stiff area in the general scalenes area. 2 things, I have a very solid point right in the area that has no feeling and I'm trying to figure out what it is. The other thing is, I have a referral all the way down to my fingers as well as up into my jaw. I'm wondering if this is a sign of something more serious or just a very very bad knot?
That muscle youre grabbing is sore on both sides of my neck. I noticed it about a year ago and it kinda stopped bothering me but now its back. My neck feels so sore in those muscles from my colar bone up to by my ears and i get a throbbing sensation there too. When its bad like now the muscles in my forehead hurt and I have a weird feeling in my head like the begining of a headache. I done quite get a headache but my head feels like im getting a cold. Almost as if i have a sinus infection but my sinuses are clear.. I just want this pain in my throat area to stop!! any suggestions please let me know!!
I have the same thing! Man what is it
Me too
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This helped a lot for me thank you so much
Ihave chronic severe pain from 5 year in my head and neck suddenly developed after minor trauma and i find cervical rib this problem affects whole my life due to continous heabache, irritablity.,interupted painful sleep as my job is affacted because iam apatholigist and using microscope and computer all the time, even my memory is affacted
If there is advice this will be favour from you
I have the same problem. Hard pressure at the location that he recommends helps, but only temporarily. Simple yoga, Cobra pose a few times a day helps as well.
Dear doctor i also have this problem at left side from many years and believe me i daily do massage and exercise for this but its not going away. Kinldy suggest some kind of medicine.
You are the best. This is exactly what I needed. God bless you
Hi Wizard, found this video very helpful. I've had issues with my scalene muscle for about 5 months now, due to deadlifts (too heavy) I haven't worked out in 5 months because of this. I've been having numbness and tingling down both my arms. Very frustrating! I will be starting this trigger points regularly starting today. I sometimes get tingling sensation down the back of my neck more towards my right side in back. Could that be scalene's also? Also where are you located? I'm Desparate! Thank you!
+yvette giglio thanks for the question! Here are some things to note:
a. usually when you have bilateral numbness (both arms) it's more 'likely' that its the scalenes instead of the nerve root.
b. Scalene trigger points can refer to many different areas. Again, there are so many muscles in that area that it may be scalenes, or sternocleidomsatoid muscles, etc. Best thing is to type in 'scalene trigger point pattern' and you'll get some diagrams showing the scalene patterns. See if some of those match your own.
c. Be careful when you start with trigger points in the front of the neck. That's a pretty sensitive area so start off slowly!
I'm in Toronto Canada, but if you are looking for someone, I'd suggest looking for someone that has been specifically trained in treating trigger points. Mind you , EVERYONE will say they treat it. Chiropractors, massage therapists, physical therapists and even physicians treat trigger points. Some of us have been doing it a lot and some do it on occasion. I recommend typing in 'trigger point therapists' in your town and see if you can find some that solely treat these. Or a therapist that has taken courses and has their practice primarily dealing with trigger points. Hope that helps!
also, you can read more about trigger points for the neck at goo.gl/dCj26k
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Where are you located and how do I get in contact with you?
Thank you very much
I got this from sleeping wrong is that normal?
REEEEEEEEEEE
Thanks ! it helps alot
Hey there thx a lot for this. Can you tell me if you find heat or cold to be better for when triggerbpoibt pain in the neck is really bad. I generally hear heat, but if they flare up really bad and are insanely tender would you advise cold instead?
Thx
hey Alex, i find it depends on the person. Some find ice to be better. I've used ice before to freeze an area prior to stretching that trigger point. But i find that everyone responds differently to the heat and cold. Just keep in mind how long you're adding the cold, whether you're using a thick towel in between the ice and your skin, etc. In a sensitive area like the scalenes, you can try putting a paper cup in the freezer and then take a bit off the top and make it into an ice 'roller'. You can then gently roll on the ice onto the scalenes instead of using an ice pack. I've found that to be really effective. Hope that helps!
Hi, about two months ago I felt some pain around the upper trapezius. It wasn't much so I ignored it and kept lifting heavy weights. Later I started feeling pain around the middle trapezius and some around the first rib area, also it hurts the most when i puff my chest out a little and lower my shoulders. Could it be a trigger point in the scalene or somewhere in the trapezius muscle. Sorry for the paragraph.
jesse c
I wanna know too!
definitely the scalene.
keep stretching the scalene and trap, I'm having the same problem I'm laying off all trap exercises, squats, and deadlifts
Posterior scalene
Really helpful
Thank you sir
Thank you so much sir
Can inflammation in this area cause dizziness and headache
In this area yes but not from scalene trigger points. Trigger points in the sternocleidomastoid muscle right next to the scalenes however can cause headaches , pain behind the eyes and sometimes dizziness. Also trigger points in the upper trapezius and in the muscles under your skull behind your head (occipitalis), can cause headaches.
IT ACTIVATE alll the sensation to shoulder and arm is much painfull
Caused tingling from pinky to the middle finger and up to elbow on the ulnar side! Hoping it goes away soon!
It's working 👍
Sir I'm suffering from one sided neck prblm and in one sided brain please reply sir immidiatly
Yoga cobra pose helps and meditation.
jyoti kataria hi jyoti how does it feel?
What courses it?
Great big thanks for your videos and sharing your knowledge. Greetings from Germany!
Hi guys can you also feel scalene injury in chest/elbow and shoulder? I also get pain down my tricep into the hand which can feel tingly at times. Hopefully this massage helps!
Can trigger points also give pain in troath and globus and mucus?
Dang it worked.... Crazy! Thank u