How To Relieve Shoulder Pain And Neck Pain

Okay, so to relieve both the shoulder pain and the neck pain, we have to treat both. Neck pain - we treat with spinal mobilizations, manipulations, soft tissue treatment like massage and finger point massage, dry needling, acupuncture, posture correction, stretches and strengthening. Now for the shoulder, we have to look, because it's quite a complex, the whole shoulder complex you have to look is at the shoulder movement.

In most cases of shoulder and neck pain, the shoulder blade muscles there are an imbalance in the actual strength. Okay, so firstly, we have to look at what's going on in the back of his shoulder and how is the shoulder and the shoulder blade moving in comparison to, for example, lifting your arm up. Most people with shoulder pain and neck pain has got trigger points, this is tightness within a muscle, in one of the very specific shoulder blades muscles called infraspinatus.

By reducing and relieving the pressure in a particular area, it has a massive effect on what happens in the shoulder. We also have to look at scapula setting; how are the people - how you keep your shoulder blades - sitting, reading, walking. The most important thing is actually how you are moving your arm, most people with shoulder neck pain walk like this, causing tightness in the side of their neck.

We have to straighten you out and teach you again on how to simply use your arm properly. So, to relieve neck and shoulder pain, firstly we have to find out why it's hurting and if it's connected, and if it is connected, then we have to treat both. .