Shoulder Blade Pain
About two weeks ago I received two emails from my “Ask A Question” section on my blog one asking about ankle pain (which I’m still working with her with more questions) and another with shoulder blade pain from golfing.
I have referred to the shoulder pain reader: Pain In The Shoulder http://www.stressedoutstressfree.com/stressed-with-a-pain-in-the-shoulder/ and on Posture http://www.stressedoutstressfree.com/how-to-sit-straight/ for the time being because at that time, I was having a problem with my Mac and had to be sent in to Apple to be fix. Here’s the video.
In This Video You Will Find:
– The cause
– How to identify a good muscle and a pain muscle
– How to prepare the muscle
– Technics and tip on how to work on the muscle yourself
ENJOY! 🙂
Transcript for Today’s Video:
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Hi welcome to another video. My name is Vincent Woon in this video I’m going to answer a question form my “ASK A QUESTION” section of my blog from one of my readers.
Due to privacy policy I’ve copy an paste our email conversation to Pages. The question was asking for help with pain under shoulder blade.
He said he found my videos in YouTube and went on to my blog and this is his story. He said have sudden pain under his left shoulder blade & at first he thought it was a torn trapezius. He googled and found this website and showed me the picture here which is the subscapularis muscle and went on pain when he lift his arm up over his shoulder and at the same time lean forward or sideways. Also painful when he is coughing.
He discovered that if he pull his shoulders back real tight cough, there’s no pain.
He went on and he said he can’t think of anything specific but he mention intense golf – haven’t played for 10 years & started playing a lot for 3 weeks now he is hitting 50 in a couple of months. And haven’t sort any medical/chiropractic or physiotherapy help yet
I asked him if he can point out where the pain/pains is? Whether it’s in middle left or upper right of the subscapularis muscle base on the pic on the link he sent me.
He said it’s feel’s like it’s under the shoulder blade but suspect it’s something else and sent me to this website.This site explain the symptoms of where he thinks the pain is. BUT Can’t really id which point he feel the pain – how should he go about locating the point? By pressing on it? How should it feel?
Ok! I’m going to show you three steps to shoulder blade reliefNumber one to locate where the pain is, In order to locate where the pain is, you have to figure out what is a good muscle and what is a pain muscle.
How do you figure out what is a good muscle and a muscle in pain? A good muscle should feel like, for instance there’s no pain on your arm…you just touch here, see how mushy it is how bouncy it is. It’s nice and soft, the muscle feels like normal..no pain.
He said he had a pain on the left shoulder so in order to compare to that he has to press to feel the right shoulder and see if there’s a difference. The right shoulder he should feel soft and mushy nice and no pain just like how we felt on the hand and on the pain area you will feel tightness and when you press on it you will feel the pain. The tightness is what we call knots.
Now that we know the difference between a good muscle, a pain muscle or tight muscle..When we work on it you can feel how the tight muscle will become the soft muscle and you can see the difference.
Second step is to loosen the muscles in the area. What you need to do is look for a wall hand on the wall. 90º for the middle of the shoulder blade, 45º is for the lower part of the shoulder blade, 135º is for the upper part of the shoulder.
135º for the upper part, 90º for the middle of the shoulder blade, 45º is for the lower part and let take a look of the side view, one step forward hand on the wall and stretch make sure you bend your knees.
Let’s take a look at he front view, step forward and stretch make sure your knee is bend.
Now that we have number one locate where the pain is, number two loosen it up and number three I’m going to show you how to work on it. We go straight to the point of the area where you feel the pain, put some pressure on it, Make sure you use the tip of your fingers, here finger pads press on it and then move backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards. Let me show you the front view backward, forwards, backwards and forwards, back and forward.
And you can also turn it this way, start with a small circle and probably bigger go forward and then backward. Small circle and big circle.
You can also have somebody rub on it and as you rub on it or you can rub it yourself like such, you can use your other hand to support your elbow and just rub this way.
The pain is here and the muscle over here is going this direction, so what you are doing is you are rubbing against the muscle this way and as you rub you can feel that the muscles become softer like the muscle that you felt the good muscle in this area here earlier and that’s when you know the muscle is loosen up and the pain will be gone!
Basically what this does is when you rub you create circulation to the area and when there’s circulation to the area it will take away knots and stuff. When that’s circulation there’s oxygen and oxygen oxygenate the place/area and it will loosen up the pain
Thank you very much for watching and if you have any question, pleas feel free to ask me in the comment box below and if you like it share it with your friends. And don’t forget to visit my blog at http://StressedOutStressFree.com at the blog yo can subscribe for my weekly newsletter on stress and health and I see you in the next video.
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BE WELL! 🙂
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Hi . I have similar pain but when I try to straighten up n move my head syraight ..I have shooting pain…between shoulder blade…. I feel pain on right side leading up to back of neck..I woke up with the pain…done nothing strenuous. .Plz can you advise treatment or exercise… much appreciated. …
Hi, Thank you so much for sharing this video.I have been dealing with Bicep Tendinitis for more than 2 years. I saw Chiropractors, Physiotherapist, Doctors but never got 100% relief from any of them. The pain started on the right side of my shoulder blade, then it move forward to my shoulder. After ultrasound, physiotherapy now pain is on my shoulder rather than shoulder blade.It hurts everytime, I lay down. I am scared of going to sleep now bcoz i know it’s going to hurt me. I have tried every single position of sleeping but can never sleep properly. I twist and turn all the time when i am sleeping.I would appreciate, if you could share some of your thoughts on my case.thanks for listening to my problem.
How did you hurt it? What sleep position do you normally wake up with?
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Hi, please go for x-rays prior (before) visiting a physiotherapist / biokineticist / rheumatologist / orthopaedic surgeon. I you had a shoulder related injury many years ago, you can’t still refer to those old x-rays, you need to take new x-rays.I recently went to a biokineticist for stiff and sore scapula (shoulder blade) and shoulder (had re-occurrences for the last 10 years). After the 3rd visit I decided to go for x-rays, the results of x-rays was that I have Supraspinatus Tendonitis (in my case the calcification was shown on x-rays because I had several re-occurrences of inflammation of the Supraspinatus Tendon). If I did not go for x-rays after 3rd visit the biokineticist’s would be treating the muscles and not Supraspinatus Tendon (where the problem lies). So save yourself time and money and always go for x-rays first. Also, if you went for x-rays and nothing defective was found, and your symptoms point to tendon related problems, it’s best to go for CT scans or MRI (MRI is more expensive).
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You are able to cure your back-pain entirely by replace your exercise slightly – I’ve try and now nearly relief all the pain. I’m sure you should try it
You could get rid of your back pain permanently by replace your diet plan a little – I’ve try and now almost relief all the pain. In my opinion you should try it
u r magical man , thanks a lot , it worked for me thanks for making this video
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I have neck and shoulder pains for years. Recently it gets worse and it’s killing me.Last evening, I saw your video and decided to give it a try. The hand on the wall stretch method really helps to relief the muscles pain. And I woke up feeling much better today.I’m going to continue doing it.Thank you so much.Appreciated.
thank you very much…this video helped me a lot…
Both my shoulders are sore
But wow thank you so much. This really helps, I have dance every day of the
week and this evening I’m going to have it and I was afraid I wouldn’t be
able to dance but this helped. Thank you!
I have left muscle pain at 16 months, and When i touch i have pain, not
very big pain but pain.. Generally i have almost permanent pain, I used
painkillers and gabapentin. Gabapentin for stress, whats you think Pain’s
reason is stress? … Just when i’m happy anyway i have pain. I don’t know
whats going on in my back , physioteraphist said; ” You can move and you
don’t need massage’.. X -ray said (Two times) Bones are well.. They can’t
see my problems. Doctors said you need scan, I wanted try scan, because i
was wondered diagnose, but i canceled scan in hospital because they said to
me; ” You will be in Tube 45 minutes”,, and I get afraid.. I canceled i
regrets sometimes, but i can’t help it… I have now big pain, i used co –
codamol, but , still pain.. and whats you think muscle pain is such
dreadful? I can’t use for sleep left side…
Thanks
Bobby Lee, is that you??
Thank you so much for this!! Had some issues with my left shoulder and the
stretch at 4:24 helped it. Just did it and it feels great now!
Can you help me.. i have pain in my left side neck from upper back to my
shoulders, chest down to my arms i cant sleep facing left cos in the
morning when i wake up it really hurts and my hands starts to numb.. i cant
move well because i feel weak all the time cos of the pain im experiencing
everyday.. i hope you can give me advice and what exercise is good for me
thanx!
Can you help me.. i have pain in my left side neck from upper back to my
shoulders, chest down to my arms i cant sleep facing left cos in the
morning when i wake up it really hurts and my hands starts to numb.. i cant
move well because i feel weak all the time cos of the pain im experiencing
everyday.. i hope you can give me advice and what exercise is good for me
thanx!
Thank you so much ?? I needed help with my right side shoulder and neck.
Now I can sleep n rest
Thank you very much, it really work for me . God bless you. This is magic
,I swear to god
ur not stretching your back the wall stretch????? ur stretching pecs! which
can be helpful if they have internal rotation of the shoulders.
THAAANK YOUUU!!! pain free finally
Thank you so much for this!! You helped me feel so much better!!
thanks, i will do this everyday.
Don’t you need to lose weight?
I was afraid I will never going to dance again because of my shoulder.
Thank you for this video
Thank you so much! really help me this exercise!
i have a c6 and a c7 pinched nerve, everytime i talk or cough theres pain.
i’ve tried everything you said on your video, it helped me just a little,
but the pain seems to go from the right shoulder blade towards the elbow of
my right hand and its constant. ive had two injections in my neck to
relieve the pain but there hasnt been any success. now my doctor is saying
i need surgery before i do that i though id write and ask you whats going
on.
What if the pain is more on the bottom? Like right on the bones of the
shoulder blades? Its a non stop pain and I always toss n turn till I drink
one cup of water the pain is gone! Is it only when im hydration?
Thanks, this actually worked and removed an knot that i couldn’t take away
before.
I have a pain in my neck because of the fourth and fifth Bony vertebra
close to each other … this hurt my shoulder and hands with my neck..
thank you for this video.
I have a problem with lifting things with my hand (wrist) when the
palm is with my fingers down to the ground, My thumb finger simply
loose the strength and i drop everything. I am talking about a simply
lift of weight 1kg.On the opposite direction i can lift more weight
and i don’t have pain.Can you help me , or tell me what is the
problem with my hand .. Thank you
wow great exercise, pain gone in 5 mins, hope it will not come again 🙂
Is use of massaging oil a good idea to get rid of the knots. Also, I get
pain when I turn my neck around. Pain killers are not helping.
Thanks so much it helped so much!
He is adorable
Hello, i got a problem in my below shoulder blade when i stretch it out its
like the muscle is breaking i have this for about 3 years now, i took an
xrays and they notice i have a mild scoliosis now why its the only that
part of my shoulder blade hurts?? Everytime it hurts its like i got a
shortness of breath and im also taking pain reliever now for 3 years one
time every day 15 mg. And i also felt that their is a knot on it if i
massage it sometime it gone but will just go back after a few hours. What
do u think is this?
Thank you for sharing! It really reduces the pain by much!
God bless you, all the best of luck xo