Just started your video on this topic, last night! As an MT for just about 6mths, I find your material very helpful. Also interacted with one of your TikTok posts not too long ago. Thanks for caring for our community☺️
3 years ago
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I love working the later shoulder and underneath the scapula. I had a client whose scapula was very winged out and it went back to a neutral position once I released subscap and both teres.
3 years ago
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This is awesome! I can’t wait for it to turn into a video series!
3 years ago
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You are a grand gift to this painful old body! Your soul is hilariously unique and pleasing and is healing right along with your hands. I believe God made you especially for his pleasure.. Amen 💃
3 years ago | 2
Oh so agree with you! Although I hadn't thought of doing the pinch thing. That sounds awesome! Having had a shoulder injury myself n explored the delights of subscap, supra n infra, teres... There are so many!
3 years ago
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I love this. This past week I've really started falling in love with shoulder/scapula work. Shoulder always felt so complicated but it just clicked one day and it's making so much sense.
3 years ago
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Filled my heart with the words of muscle relief and healing techniques. Explore and discover each and everyone of your clients and help create openness and relaxation to their days!
2 years ago
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Even though I'm in a different side of physical therapy your info effects me greatly. Your an amazing person.
3 years ago
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Bear with me I'm still a student but out of curiosity when you say "bully the lateral border to address the teres" what does that mean? I've not heard bully used as verbiage in classes or conversations with LMTs and I'm very curious about that.
3 years ago | 0
Massage Sloth
At the age of 41, I have discovered my meaning in life. My purpose. My eventual legacy. I... am a scapula salesman.
This bad boy can hold so much significance for common pain and dysfunction. Anterior shoulder pain? My first thought is subscapularis. Upper back pain? Sure the pecs are pulling, but the rotator cuff muscles are the rope. Tingling and numbness when you try to sleep? All four of those rotators are keeping the head of the humerus tight in its socket, pec minor is mashing the whole shoulder girdle tight to the body, and I just know that subscap is up to something. That's not even touching on the epic, multifunctional, posture-producing balancing act between rhomboids, traps, serratus anterior, levator scapulae, and the rotators.
So, massage therapists: What can I do to get you into some direct scapula work today? Imagine yourself cruising along the spine of the scapula, dipping into the supraspinous fossa above and following infraspinatus below. You could even pinch the spine of the scapula, digging into both muscles at the same time, interacting with the broad insertion of trapezius, all while giving the whole thing a rocking, mobilizing shake. You could bully the lateral border to directly address the teres, and even swoop some thumbs into the axilla to compress subscapularis. And have you seen the 3-dimensional surface of the infraspinous fossa? It's a thing of beauty, my friends, and it's worth every second of exploration with grouped fingertips.
Today, when you're working with the upper back and mostly drawing inside the lines, working with rhomboids and trapezius and only glancing past the lateral torso, I want you to take a detour. I want you to see yourself on a long, luxurious vacation in scapula country. There's a whole world of meaningful, powerful tissue to explore.
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