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! 🙂
[..YouTube..] this helped a lot thank you!!
this helped a lot thank you!!
[..YouTube..] Oh my gosh, this totally worked! Thank you so much for sharing
Oh my gosh, this totally worked! Thank you so much for sharing
[..YouTube..] wow; the hand on the wall stretch was really very helpful. you have unsurpassable worth sir!
wow; the hand on the wall stretch was really very helpful. you have unsurpassable worth sir!
[..YouTube..] I will be trying out the exercise, and thank you for clear directions
I will be trying out the exercise, and thank you for clear directions
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[..YouTube..] ummm i liked the way you advised, i also had a shoulder injury 18 months ago, i went to hospital and had video X-ray,
ummm i liked the way you advised, i also had a shoulder injury 18 months ago, i went to hospital and had video X-ray,
[..YouTube..] ummm i liked the way you advised, i also had a shoulder injury 18 months ago, i went to hospital and had video X-ray, mri but they couldnt find anything or pin point my pain location and later they referred me to phisio therapist. i continually went for physio therapy for more than 8 months but it didnt do anyrhing so i decided to quit . i am military man so i cant avoid physical exercises so i thought i cant get any better and give up on my own. now its almost 2 years and my pain is still the
ummm i liked the way you advised, i also had a shoulder injury 18 months ago, i went to hospital and had video X-ray, mri but they couldnt find anything or pin point my pain location and later they referred me to phisio therapist. i continually went for physio therapy for more than 8 months but it didnt do anyrhing so i decided to quit . i am military man so i cant avoid physical exercises so i thought i cant get any better and give up on my own. now its almost 2 years and my pain is still the
[..YouTube..] pain is still same. when i watched your video i thought you could help me. the physical exercises i cant avoid are push ups- chin ups , running , rope climbing and monkey bar. i hope you can help me. thank you
pain is still same. when i watched your video i thought you could help me. the physical exercises i cant avoid are push ups- chin ups , running , rope climbing and monkey bar. i hope you can help me. thank you
[..YouTube..] i started the excercise a month ago, having suffered many years with scoliosis and shoulder pain i am getting some relief thankyou for help
i started the excercise a month ago, having suffered many years with scoliosis and shoulder pain i am getting some relief thankyou for help
i have exactly the same problem as the guy u mentioned in the video, but i dont feel the pain all the time, i only feel it when i wake up from sleep.. i’ll try your method and see how it goes first..
How did you injured your shoulder? Did you fall? Accident?
Good to know you are making some progress. Keep me inform. You might want to check out my “Simple Chiropractic Adjustment” to help out the scoliosis from my channel
Please describe your sleeping position. Do you sleep on the side (how)? Sleep on your stomach? ? ? ?
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Thank you! for years now i’ve been having really bad pains in my shpulderblades and my neck, which causes headaches as well. that exercise you showed with the wall really relieved the pain. i used to be overweight untile i started dieting and running. i do long distance runs 3 times a week and i’m in pain most of the time. i sleep on the side and the whole shoulderblade area is painful
Thank you so much! I have fallen three times, exactly, within the last month figure skating and have had horrible shoulder blade pin. Chiropractor, MD w/anti-inflammatory, x-ray – nothing has helped. Watching your video, exercises and u theracain to massage the sore muscle has given me the first relief in over a month. THANK YOU!
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omg…thanks for this info…. i am gonna try this tonight, then i will sleep and see how i feel in the morning
Woke up yesterday morning with a sever pain between by shoulder blades, couldn’t hardly get out of bed. Been using my hot massager and slowly getting back to normal, and even after just a few minutes of massaging I get a big relief.
Massage always help! How you are feeling better 🙂
About a day and a half of using my hot massager, the pain was completely gone. I even spent nearly all day yesterday shoveling my place and the neighbors place out of the snow storm we had…about a foot of snow, with no side effects 🙂 Now their predicting 6 to 8 more inches of snow in two more days, guess I’ll be shoveling more snow…? Thanks for asking 🙂
That’s Great! Don’t go crazy with the snow. Stay warm and be safe 🙂
Hello, I have the pain it’s in my lower shoulder, the pain is really bad. It started 2 weeks ago when I went really intense in the gym, now it hurts still, sometimes it’s gone, but when I do some push ups, it al starts again the day after I do push ups, what’s the problem, I’m also 14.
Subject has: 1/No pain if his pulls back shoulders. 2/No pain before he started playing golf. 1/ Keep shoulders pulled back. It may seem unnatural, but in fact, you’ve probably been in an unnatural shoulder-forward posture. Many, perhaps most people are. 2/ Stop playing golf. Find another recreation.
THANK YOU. great info!
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Hi…thanks for the exercises..really helped:) is there any sleeping posture you would recommend ? thnk u
Did get some immediate relief for upper back shoulder pain (less intense). Not sure about further down back pain (more intense), but it seemed less when I tried to use about 1.5 inch door trim to massage with. Thanks so much. Phil K.
You are welcome! The best way is to sleep on your back! Which way do you normally sleep? BE WELL 🙂
Great! You can also try soaking with warm water and Epsom salt to loosen up the muscles or simply use hot compress (damped a hand towel and microwave it [warm not too hot]) and put it over the pain muscle. BE WELL! 🙂
Hi enjoyed the video. My pain travels from inside my left shoulder blade up through the left side of my neck. No pain moving my head from left to right but I get extreme pain at the neck/shoulder fold when I move my head on the diagonal back towards my left shoulder blade. Your exercises and heat help my shoulder area a bit, but not my neck. Any particular exercise suggestions? Thanks.
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I would love to be able to sleep on my back but I never have been able to do that I usually sleep like a flamingo/one leg up on my stomach with arms under my head/pillow. Do you have any suggestions to help me sleep on my back?
Thank you so much this video is REALLY helpfull!!!! my shoulder blade feels so strained this video has helped me target what area the pain is coming from!!!
Thank you!
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Why does this pain happen?
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