Rhomboids - Are Yours Dead and Damaged?
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If your rhomboids feel numb or dead, don't waste your time with a shoulder exercise like the Prone Y or Prone W. You want to focus on exercises that more directly targeted at the rhomboids that don't allow for compensation.
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Thank you So Much! 3 months suffering of pain in my upper back . 3 times I was rush to hospital. I cant Explain how painful it is. That i thouht iam dying. Until One day. Searching for pain Iam sufferring I drop on your Channel.. My GOD! THANK YOU SO MUCH. I CAN WALK NOW, CAN STAND AND MOVE AROUND.. I IUST FOLLOW YOUR STRECHING EXERCISE.. GOD BLESS YOU..
“Assume you can fix it”
I love that. I was in a car accident and sustained a lot of soft tissue damage in my neck and back. Seeing a PT but it’s a long road.
Its hopeless
@@Brizzo200speak for yourself. im healing.
@@Brizzo200 lol
You are fabulous! First time I have heard anyone give such a clear and understandable explanation . You are empathetic name in tune and incredibly knowledgeable but what’s more is how well you get information across in a calm
Way . Thank you !!! 🙏
I just had the realization the other day about fitness. Sometimes when we have neglected fitness for many years it could seem the small changes are pointless… futile!!!
But someone with minimal inactivity or a poor diet can recover quickly. The person with years of neglect perhaps from childhood will take more time but still can arrived if they don’t give up!!!
Like a road trip the person with little neglect will have less miles to travel to reach their destination. The person with years of neglect can still arrive as long as they are willing and committed to fitness. It can be achieved!!!
It would be very helpful if you had some large anatomy pictures of muscles. Most of us are very visual and learn better when we see a visual aid in addition to hearing the lecture. Thanks.
Oh Matt, you are so right, thank so much. I went down the nerve damage rabbit trail, what got me off the horrible path was learning ATM from you.
You are so welcome!
Me too for years did every test and now I know everything’s fine it’s just muscular wish I would have trusted and stretched and strengthened but sometimes it’s so hard to find out which muscles are wrong the painful one might be working for other ones which aren’t working imo
actually you are the best so far, your voice tonne is easy to listen and does so good. many thanks
Wow, thank you!
I have chronic pain in my rhomboids and neck from a car accident where I also suffered a whiplash injury. Whenever I try to work those muscles the pain is excruciating. It feels like a knife in my back between my shoulder blades.
Wish I heard your warning against "smashing" muscles with massage a year ago. I'm 65 and strained my back last spring gardening and loading my grandchild in and out of the car seat. Usually massage by rolling out against the wall with tennis balls in a sock. Hitting those trigger points felt SO GOOD! Unfortunately, this caused upper back swelling or inflammation so bad that I couldn't take a deep breath without pain for at least a week.
What if you have a pitched shoulder?
@@lauratempestini5719 it resolved in about two weeks with rest and ice. I'm very careful now about overdoing massage no matter how good it feels!🤪
Hey, so i smashed my rhomboid area with a tennis ball rolling on the wall its been 2 weeks and it feels better but the pain radiated on scapula and rear delt, how did yours happen?!
Had a client work between the shoulders with a lacrosse ball and numb out a nerve. It has not come back on line yet. Good advice more pressure isn’t always better and as a person who works with nerves. Nerves don’t like being crushed. FYI
When my back aches - I think to my self, "knot again!"
badum tssss.... :D
Gotta love a pun😂
Actually a properly fit corset cup the ribs not constrict the ribs.
@@szbyzan I am not a corset expert, but I would suggest looking at the anatomy of the rib cage and where the lowest ribs sit. It seems highly improbable (if not altogether impossible) that a corset could exert a cinching force on the abdomen without impinging upon the ribs.
Bahahahaha
THIS.. is EXACTLY what I NEEDED!!!
Great personality. Pain in back can make one feel depressed. I am so glad I got to this video!!!
Hi, you CAN get damaged rhomboids if you do jobs like carrying/lifting stuff all the time such as owning an event company where you carry/lift heavy equipment all the time in and out of venues, or if you do hair or bartending or any job where you use the upper body all.the.time. It happened to me, and I also had thoracic disc problems. But doctors refused to consider the possibility that I had anything seriously wrong with my thorascic muscles or discs because they couldn't imagine what I was doing. Nobody who is a Doctor lifts/carries heavy objects THAT MUCH, or has pressure on their upper body that much, as much as I was doing it, and I look different during the day than I looked as my "DJ Personna" so they just couldn't understand what I was telling them. They couldn't imagine someone who looks like me doing all that work almost every night, but I was doing it and needed help. It was so bad that my right rhomboid wasn't even moving at all. I did physical therapy and they got it moving again but I still feel damage and have weird movements/spasms in the area sometimes. These are strange times and people are doing all kinds of heavy work jobs that they didn't used to in their social position in life, for instance a mom who now has to drive Uber to supplement her income, etc. This didn't happen as much previously, so there are those of us out there with bad repetitive stress disorder that nobody thinks we should have it, and they underestimate the seriousness of the problem. Sorry for the novel but this has been a serious issue for me. Love the videos!!
To be clear, there is a difference between damage and discomfort and dysfunction. Just because your rhomboids hurt does not mean they are damaged. It is vital to make the distinction to keep one’s perspective and to stay proactive to fix the issues. Modern life creates a host of muscle dysfunction through repetition and atrophy. You can't force a dog to lie down for 14 hours a day and then expect it to play fetch with you fast and pain free. You can't force yourself to sit in chairs for 8-16 hours a day and still expect the muscles of your legs, hips, spine, and shoulders to work at optimal levels.
Doctors don’t understand how to wake up muscles because their education focuses on surgery and pharmaceutical interventions. They learn almost nothing about maintenance of health and the basic fundamentals that keep us healthy, comfortable, and strong. That’s why YOU must continue to identify ways to wake the muscles back up on a regular basis. They will only learn if YOU train them. Doctors can mostly just wait until you are desperate enough to take pills or undergo a surgery (which itself will no doubt have a paucity of evidence to support it).
End result is what I always talk about: ATM. And SAEL (strength at every length). Muscles only move right and feel right when we consistently use them intelligently.
I looked up "rhomboid pain relief exercises" and saw some exercises that I'm already doing for neck problems from PT. They all helped a little, and I'm still doing them; but what I'm doing now is a little more radical. I found a specialist chiropractor, who does Cox Traction Technique. That involves
preparation through - heat, e-stim and soft tissue massage of the area before going onto the Cox Traction Table. I've gotten approx. 90% improvement of my neck problem/symptoms overall in a little over a month. Maybe something like that could help if you've had those problems this long. fyi: They required I have my xray/mri's beforehand.
@@Uprighthealth Got it! Your videos have helped way more than anything Doctors or the Physical Therapists whom I was assigned to through my insurance have provided.
@@shepatown Thanks for the tip James! I'm going to continue to strengthen that rhomboid and get some massage on it, and I think it will be ok even though it feels kind of wonky :)
i’m praying for you man. i’m a young man who just finished a year in hvac and my neck, rhomboid, and shoulder have started fucking killing me
one of the best presenters on youtube! Great info and delivery. I definitely have that left elbow computer lean problem. I have damaged/collapsing c6/c7 and was told not to lift weights above my head - does that sound right and if so what can I do to work muscles in that range? Keep up the great work
5 years with a dead rhomboid, got so much wrong advice, I gave up trying until today when for the first time I decided to look around on UA-cam.. can’t believe I didn’t look earlier, I’ve been doing the first exercise for 10 minutes and can already start to feel it working
Thank you so much man
I can't thank you enough for this video. I have been in pay every day for years....I feel soooo much better thanks to your video....thank you!!!!!!!
This isn't marketed towards carpel tunnel, but I would recommend anyone with carpel tunnel symptoms to give these a shot! I accidentally realized a few years ago that my symptoms improved by 50% immediately after doing these.
YESSSS. Very good observation. My own wrist pain journey was HUGELY helped by turning on the rhomboid.
Same here.
Finally a video that perfectly describes the numb dead and thick feeling in my left rhomboid. When I try to describe it to my pt or other doctors they don’t see, to grasp the severity of how I feel, so thank you for recommending me these exercises. I hope to see improvement as I try to do them everyday.
@@rocks4396 this is exactly what I am experiencing, are these exercises helping?
@@connorjohannessen yeah it helped a bit slow and steady progress. I have also found out that the root source of my back pain was actually near the base of my neck so i have been massaging that part for a few days now. Try to find the trigger point at the base of your neck.
Amazing outlook, I needed to hear this! Thank you for leading me away the rabbit hole😊 I agree, there is no technology to fix it. Stretching and exercise is the only way with a positive outlook. Thank you for this video ❤
thank u so much. i have severe rounded shoulder problems. recently im on my way training my rhomboids for good posture
Wow. I’m so impressed with how futuristic your approach is.
I was diagnosed with a genetic muscle disease ten years ago (means it’s running in my family).
One of the bigger issues is that I cannot fully raise my arms bc of weak (or inactive??) rhomboids - the shoulder blades are winging and are drawn up tightly toward the shoulder joint. It’s looks kinda funny. 😄
Anyway, people keep telling me that I cannot change anything about my condition but I do not believe them.
Only recently I learned from a physiotherapist that muscles are not always too weak/destroyed; rather I probably just don’t know how to engage them… 😊
It's nice to see that I'm not the only one with this problem
Thank you! I’ve also found the best way (for me) to activate the rhomboids is to squeeze a horizontal iPad near the chest at the level of xiphoid process of the sternum. Both elbows need to be relaxed, low and close to the ribs laterally. Squeeze the iPad hard in this posture and I can go as hard and long as the rhomboids can take.
Also, when squeezing my posture naturally becomes straight and shoulders widened without needing to extend the spine.
I just discovered your channel and it’s all so relevant to me. You should put all the exercises together work out video style so we can just follow along!
I hurt my shoulder during covid trying to learn how to ride a fixed gear bike. I'm a tennis player, but my shoulder has not been the same since. I can't play tennis or softball (throwing is brutal) anymore. I just started losing some weight and noticed it looks like my rhomboid major muscle is completely missing from my injured shoulder. I'm definitely going to try these exercises. I had felt pretty resigned but this really seems to explain a lot of my pain and I'm hopeful I can get my muscle activated again. Thanks for the great video. Damn I guess I'm old af now.
Matt! Thank you for these videos. You're awesome.
Hi from Liverpool UK Tks so much for all your videos your simply the best x
Thanks so much 😊
That video was really helpful. Great tone and knowledge.
Excellent info on rhomboids and other useful stuff! Thanks!
You bet!
great video the exercises feel good and are simple. your voice is very calming and i can actually listen and feel what your saying. thank you
This is huge, thank you for explaining so well!
Oh my !!!! 😮 that is me!! I actually wanted to go to the hospital because that exactly like I feel.
Time to have a talk with my Rhambos. 😆 Thanks for this video, I know it’s going to help me.
Such a great video ❤
Thank you for the rhomboid exercises, I shall do them regularly. Happy New Year, thank for your help.
12:07 that exercise helps me! Thank u!!!! Im on pain for a year upper back pain due to wrong posture of breastfeeding and lying breastfeeding..
Thank you for this, I really needed it
Thank you so much... I have pain exactly you are talking do what you said. It was helpful.
So I've been watching videos like these, and they say it's painful, but for me, I have these insanely deep knots under my shoulder blades caused by a partially torn labrum. I also have tendinosis and bursitis. That was the diagnosis from an mri I had done about 8 years ago. Idk if anything has changed, but for me, I need to literally lean backward off the end of my bed post, which has the surface half the size of a doorknob. I then sort of do a bridge where I use my legs to lift my whole body to put all of my weight into the trigger point using the bed post. I need at least 100-150 pounds with a very small surface area to really get deep enough to fully get the most out of hitting the trigger point. My thing is while I'm doing this, instead of a pain I get the sensation of what is feels like to massage a tense muscle of knot and it sends such an intense rush of endorphins to my brain that that is what makes it so hard to hold the position where I'm digging into the trigger point. The spasms are so intense that I could put my weight into the trigger point for 3 min intervals, then stop for 30 seconds and go again over and over for up to an hour or 2. The problem is that the endorphin rush and deep muscle never seem to ever relax or calm down. I get a slight relief towards the end but by then I've almost pierced through my back skin and am nearly bleeding plus I feel a soreness from digging into the muscle yet the endorphin rush just doesn't stop and the muscle spasms never subside. It even moves around to different areas as I'm doing it. Not far but like an inch in each direction. Is this the same thing this man is suffering from? The way he screams and squirms is the same way I react from the intense release of endorphins from the deepest part of my rhomboid muscle that goes straight to my brain. It's too much to handle, and that's why I can't hold it consistently for too long without breaks in between, or I feel like my brain will explode. Usually, an endorphin rush is supposed to feel good, but mine are so amplified that my body and brain can't handle it. I try my best to push through, and it takes a lot of mental training and forcing myself to fight through until the muscle finally relaxes, but it never does. There's even been times where I dug into my trigger point over and over for around 2 hours and then it caused me to get severely nauseous and I ended up puking bile over and over for 8-12 hours with no relief until it finally went away. I remember doing some deep research years ago, and I read something about what's called the fascia, which is a layer under the muscle all over your body that can also have spasms. Maybe it's that? Does anybody have any idea what's going on with me? I know that since my labrum is partially term that it causes my back muscles to have to overwork and take on extra weight in which they aren't designed for that and only are designed to handle an aligned back with everything in tact. So I know that's what's most likely causing this intense deep knot/spasm. It's just the never ending overrush of endorphins plus the spasms never getting worked out which seems to be confusing to me. Also I used the work a job where I was a server and carried heavy trays. That's the only time I actually ever felt "pain" in the ball joint on my upper shoulder. Normally I don't ever have pain unless I do something like that...but that also exacerbated the spasm issue. I have naturally found ways to self chiropractic techniques to crack my shoulder blade and also re align my spine plus stretches that feel good but I constantly have to keep up with it or my rhomblid muscle and spine will get a lot worse. One of the techniques I do is I take the palm of my hand and press it on the side of my head while using my head/neck/spine to push back against my hand which results in my spine cracking at least halfway down my back. It gives me some sort of relief for that whole general area. Then I try pushing my left shoulder backwards I'm a way that hits the deep muscles and causes a crack under my shoulder blade.
Iphone curls 😂 guilty as charged.....
Super helpful video, thank you for sharing!!
Doctors are not knowing & UNDERSTANDING EACH INDIVIDUAL.
LIFE DOES GET BETTER AS WE GET SMARTER !!! THANKS 😊
Your are funny 😄. A gòd experienced teacher!!! 🤣 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏
Max level charisma
You are giving good advice here. Thank- you!
Back when I was like 13 years old I was doing janitorial work at night illegally of course with my mom and I had a trashcan 40 gallon plus full of garbage including stuff from the service garage of a dealership and it included disc brakes things like that, I had to drag that thing up a Portable stair case to dump this can into the big dumpster that was the kind that goes on the back of a truck and they drop it off, I mean it was massive so as I’m pulling this can up I felt the muscle in my upper right back in between my shoulder blades tear literally ripped, it was the most gruesome feeling I’ve ever had and I was in agony on the floor for weeks. No my mother did not take me to the hospital, care to guess why? Child labor laws? Anyhow for many many years afterwards I suffered from these intense muscle spasms that would knock me out for a couple of weeks because it hurt so bad. I know for a fact that muscle tore, It’s an almost indescribable feeling.
well no I dont think 'terrible nerve damage i can do nothing about' but I do thing things like "what if the nerve is pinched in some structure or pinched in my back or its my stenosis or facet joints and its dangerous to move things now", "what if i need back surgery", or "what if my lyme disease is coming back and its time for more antibiotics"
This was brilliant. I decided to build my rhomboids and I smashed them. Now my oblique is killing me. I don't have a rubby stick, so I am trying to flex and stretch my rhomboids to loosen them up
Great video, appreciate the helpful info . 👍👍
To give one's self a back massage is VERY DIFFICULT. 🤔😪
My personal favourite for posture and getting my scapula, back and shoulders working properly is wall angels
Bionic rhomboid! 😂😂😂
I'm sensing a new superhero!
i found that i was VERY tight across my chest and anterior shoulder and that massaging along and under the collar bones helped. at first, i couldnt touch hands behind my hips. Eventually i was able to raise them clasped behind my back. The T/W/Y/L exercises i did were lying on my back or with my back against the wall. In the W and L arm postures, the elbows were down. this makes the arm externally rotate and helps lengthen shortened arm muscles too. I still get some pain, but i no longer do my exercises. i was for a time completely pain free, but because of that, i stopped the exercises XD so totally my bad and it doesnt help that i have chronic fatigue and thus dont leave my flat as much as my body needs to to get 'natural' movement exercise
One of the livestream viewers pointed out that I was demostrating a Y instead of a W. Nice catch and I apologize for the mistake! A Prone "W" is a little different and would target rhomboid better, but it also tends to get people to recruit the low back muscles a ton instead of focusing on the shoulder muscles, so for that reason I tend not to like that one either.
How are your rhomboids feeling after this video? Drop a comment below! 👇
👉And check out the Shoulder Fix program at uprighthealth.com/shoulder-fix
Well done, thank you I sent your video to my son who has this problem. 😊
Matt, do you have any videos showing how to relieve and prevent migraines? I've tried everything under the sun and I am hoping you could do a video to help.
@@wendyhannan2454
I do Somatics w and y in prone a and supine.
Hi Matt, in this video, I noticed a little elevation of the left Scapulae. My teenage son has this elevation. Sleeping in a fetal position resting head on that shoulder joint is a bad habit. Can this be "fixed"?
I wish I could wake up my rhomboids..it's difficult for me to do all these exercises
9:24 Yep that’s triggering my Rhomboid’s, I believe? Even though I only have a basic realization of what they are…
Hey! it's like magic for me to find people on the same boat. I’ve been with this chronic pain for more than four years. It all started while doing pull-ups. At the third pull-up I got a sudden spasm on neck and back. I was unable to move the neck or do any kind of strength. The MRI from that moment displayed a left C5-C6 disc protrusion but since I've never done a MRI before I don't know if that was a finding.
After 5 massage sessions I got pain free but every 6 months I had to return for a massage because the pain you display in the picture came back. The pain is located in the zone of the left minor rhomboid. It seems to be linked somehow to the neck but I’m not sure. A few time ago a doc told me this has to do with my right TMJD that I am not able to fix yet because I’m finishing with the orthodontic treatment. Tasks like jumping a lot or riding a lot of bike or do face pulls make the symptoms worse. I don't have headaches or issues at the face. I don't have pain at any of the TMJs. I just have a clicking sound on the right TMJD for 10 years.
I tried:
- Ozone Therapy (for treating possible cervical disc herniation)
- Prolotherapy (for treating possible tendons/ligaments injuries)
- Neural Prolotherapy
- Accupunture (several times with several persons)
- Osteopathy (several times with several persons)
- Biodecoding
- Reflexology
- Therapy
- Chiropractic (two times with two different persons)
- Physiotherapy (several times with several persons)
- Strengthening all the body muscles
- Fixing unaligned teeth
One week before this injury I had lots of diarrhea and vomiting all day long. Somehow this is related with vagus nerve and breathing (diaphragm). I can make more intense the ache if I do a right neck flexion or a left neck extension.
Before the injury I used to have right shoulder higher than left shoulder. A spine doctor told me the left C5-C6 disc protrusion has nothing to do with my pain so I hope this all has to do with my right TMJD.
Apparently there are some terms that are directly related:
- Cervical Rectification
- Forward head posture
- C5-C6 disc bulge
- TMJD
- Scapula ache
A few weeks ago I saw that there is a difference between cervical pinched nerve and cervical facet joint. For example for left C5-C6 bulge you would lose strength at the left bicep or you would have some issues with reflexes. But for the cervical facet joint you have to see this chart. And at least in my case, this chart matches with the spot of pain (similar as the picture you uploaded).
I hope we can find more people with this so that we can find a fix beetween we all
Hi
I’m going to try the exercises ❤❤❤
My wife rolls my quads out with her car every week, I don't even ask.
Thanks for the information🙏
A very hard body part to build
13:15 meme worthy.
Ironically the injury I have now is the only time I've ever looked past his logic. It was about to be bicep day and I had to miss the last session prior. I was expecting to be out of it with the 9/10 pain I felt just trying to sleep, but it's been 2 weeks and I'm within or past the prime stretching window.
Next comes gently increasing load, and I'm back to muscle ups.
In my experience as a bodybuilder, cardio, mobiliity, and stretching are so important, that you are guaranteed an injury, even from normal everyday activities, if you neglect those areas of training.
Idk if it was coincidence but when I was Army going to gym extra with the Dip machines I had amazing romboids like it was insane.
I can relate to that thought it’s my rhomboid to.. especially when I used TENS I didn’t feel much in the rhomboid. I think now that my problem is actually not the rhomboid, it’s stiff because it’s working for all my other shoulder muscles. So I’m strengthening real lightly the other muscles and try to relax the rhomboid - hope that’s going to help with my problems but I definitely feel the rest of my shoulder muscles is really weak and inactive on the right! Maybe something for people to think of
Thanks, I really appreciate these explainer videos.
Thanks!
I appreciate your support!
You mean we're in the afterlife? "Lost" was incredible and I just didn't get it unless the very very end, so I'm dead, not half-bad!
Dont think I have nerve damage but almost certain I detatched either my rhomboid or trap
I've been suffering from what I believe is romboid pain, also goes into my chest and feels like a heart issue. But when I use a small tennis ball and do exercises with this it hurts and feels sore.
Omg thank you so much!
Thank 🙏
is scoliosis surgery considered "traumatic accidence"?
Never have I experienced such a rush of blood than when I did these
Thx. What about your neck as you do the bent over exercise.
Thank you I did the first one felt the burn so bad I hope tomorrow when I wake up I feel that relief
i fell and landed on my shoulder xrays didn't show anything how long is the recovery time usually using your exercises, great channel
Ok, ive been scrolling for a while checking to see if anyone asked this yet and i did not see it......What is that blue device you were holding and whats the amazon link 😂😂
5:00 Car massages work great! 😂😂
EXcellent!❤❤❤
Hi all. Have had TOS for quite a while. Been up and down over the years, worst flare ever starting last year. Been recommended for surgery but still tryna claw my way out through this and my bilateral ECU subluxation. Just wondering...uhhh...has anybody else ever had an issue where their rhomboid on one side feels kind of...mushy? My less affected side has normal rhomboid, but my bad TOS side has mushy rhomboid which sometimes becomes painful. And I can like manually move the scapula around with my opposite hand even when trying to resist by tensing my shoulder muscles, which doesn't happen my other side.
thank you
Thank you!
You're welcome!
How can we connect with our rhomboids during athletic activities or primal functions?
How would we use them before physio?
We have had hips because we don’t rest in a squat anymore, bad core because we don’t crawl, climb, and swim much anymore.
Is rhomboid dysfunction due to humans not lifting and carrying objects, or perhaps not climbing and hanging?
Please can you do a video on abdominal strengthening
Hi Matt.
Just hope to get advice if it'd be better kept thumbs up during the motion, used to external rotation to prevent from any shoulder impingement?
I have been told that I have an entrapped nerve in the rhomboid (R) muscle. I have chronic pain now for 2 years. Have been doing different exercises from Physio, have now had a Cortizone injection in the shoulder, tried massage and nothing works. Any suggestions would help. Have been told nothing more can be tried and I will have to learn to live with the pain.
But here’s the thing, when the shoulder muscles are tight that means the shoulder blade isnt in place
I felt the muscles as soon as i raised my hands , does it mean it's torn ?
Thank you for this video. I was thinking of sending a query about rhomboids. I have been having spasms but still have full ROM. So i was curious about which stretch or exercises would be best.
Also check out the vids linked in the description box!
You are so smart
I have scapular winging and can feel back muscle structure on one side but not the other, which I repeatedly spasmed over several years several years ago; it's like all the same lumpy (scarred?) tissue.
I like your advice: Why quit?
Constructive criticism: that was a 25 min video that could have been 5 mins
I have the "rocking boat syndrome "...any ideas...had "incident" outcome whiplash...later another trauma and "rocking boat syndrome".
How about push ups ?
It burns so much......doing this exercise........it burns more than before.......😥
Any exercises or gentle stretching for post-op lapricsopic abdominal hernia surgery? Experiencing painful / tight intercostals near most painful of surgical sites just above liver and some spasming with breathing / relaxation & lower back is over compensating for bracing from pain. Thank you!
Don't think my Rhamboids are dead because they are really screaming at me. Feels like a knife went in and can't even breath at times. Can't get comfortable. Don't know what to do. Tried massaging and about died next day. Suggestions?
Hey Sir, I have the exact same issue. Four months ago while doing rear delt flies I felt a pinch back in the rear delt. Mri confirmed no tear nor cervical issues. I went down the rabbit hole thinking nerve pain. Eventually thought it was TOS because the pain slowly crept up my scalenes, pec, and down the arm. I had some nerve hydrodissection treatments for the Brachial Plexus an scapular nerves. It has helped but still I have the nagging dead rhomboid feeling or it feels there's a muscle around my scap that won't activate and feels stiff. The more I play with it the more stiff it gets with secondary pain and so on. If I try to relax it it spasms. Also when I flex my bicep I get this stinging pain in the outer bicep and rear delt that turns to an ache around the scapula. Any advice? Sorry for the long message just desperate to get better.
Hey it's like magic for me to find people on the same boat. I’ve been with this chronic pain for more than four years. It all started while doing pull-ups. At the third pull-up I got a sudden spasm on neck and back. I was unable to move the neck or do any kind of strength. The MRI from that moment displayed a left C5-C6 disc protrusion but since I've never done a MRI before I don't know if that was a finding.
After 5 massage sessions I got pain free but every 6 months I had to return for a massage because the pain you display in the picture came back. The pain is located in the zone of the left minor rhomboid. It seems to be linked somehow to the neck but I’m not sure. A few time ago a doc told me this has to do with my right TMJD that I am not able to fix yet because I’m finishing with the orthodontic treatment. Tasks like jumping a lot or riding a lot of bike or do face pulls make the symptoms worse. I don't have headaches or issues at the face. I don't have pain at any of the TMJs. I just have a clicking sound on the right TMJD for 10 years.
I tried:
Ozone Therapy (for treating possible cervical disc herniation)
Prolotherapy (for treating possible tendons/ligaments injuries)
Neural Prolotherapy
Accupunture (several times with several persons)
Osteopathy (several times with several persons)
Biodecoding
Reflexology
Therapy
Chiropractic (two times with two different persons)
Physiotherapy (several times with several persons)
Strengthening all the body muscles
Fixing unaligned teeth
One week before this injury I had lots of diarrhea and vomiting all day long. Somehow this is related with vagus nerve and breathing (diaphragm). I can make more intense the ache if I do a right neck flexion or a left neck extension.
Before the injury I used to have right shoulder higher than left shoulder. A spine doctor told me the left C5-C6 disc protrusion has nothing to do with my pain so I hope this all has to do with my right TMJD.
Apparently there are some terms that are directly related:
Cervical Rectification
Forward head posture
C5-C6 disc bulge
TMJD
Scapula ache
A few weeks ago I saw that there is a difference between cervical pinched nerve and cervical facet joint. For example for left C5-C6 bulge you would lose strength at the left bicep or you would have some issues with reflexes. But for the cervical facet joint you have to see this chart. And at least in my case, this chart matches with the spot of pain (similar as the picture you uploaded).
I hope we can find more people with this so that we can find a fix beetween we all.
Few questions:
Do you have right TMJD? (assessed by a TMJ dentist specialist)
Do you make more intense the pain/ache if you do a neck extension to the left?
Do you have pain in another part of the body?
My theory regarding this is that a tiny thing that causes no pain at all (such as right TMJD) can cause a big trouble in another part of the body (left side of neck/scapula), similar as the butterfly effect. The body compensates every time it can, but when the compensation exceeds a limit pain comes until main root cause is fixed.
I am on the stage you were 10 years ago...:)
I’m curious, would you know of anything to help with my wrist movements/mobility. A car accident caused a distal radius and ulna break, dislocation, and jammed fingers, needless to say I couldn’t move my wrist, hand or fingers. It required surgery and now I have a plate and screws. I was told I would never use my hand/wrist the same; however, I’m back to doing handstands and holding my body up off the floor, and have no weight restraints, I was able to get it to bend almost completely back to normal without physical therapy but it does still feel tight. Is there a way to loosen it back up?
So I’m having major rhomboid issue on my left side where my left are goes painfully numb. I’ve been using the lacrosse ball and trying to contact the muscle to wake them up. But when I’m doing static squeezes my left side with cramp up and then I have to pull my shoulder blade forward to get it to uncramp. Any thoughts on why this is cramping when I hold a squeeze?
if u have rounded shoulders & forward head posture, do u have a tired/ weak rhomboids?? should you work them out??