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Valerie's avatar

It’s probably because you continue to do the same movements/postures outside of your appts. Massage and chiro work best when people work at home in between- stretches, strengthening, changing their postures, etc. Also, often what feels like a trigger point under the shoulder blade is either weak rhomboids (the muscles that pull your shoulder blades towards your spine) from poor posture and tight pecs, or a tight subscap (rotator cuff muscle that’s on the underside of your scapula) that’s causing the shoulder blade to not move freely along the ribcage.

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Anthony's avatar

At first yes, I did nothing else. But I do daily exercises now.

My knot is lower than the rhomboids. Probably another 4 or 5 inches lower.

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Jackie J's avatar

Would this cause migraines?

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JSR's avatar

https://blocktherapy.com/

Amazing stuff here!!

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Valerie's avatar

It can cause headaches, definitely. From the literature I’ve read, people nowadays tend to not exhale fully and we also tend to breathe shallowly or hold our breath. It can cause lots of muscular issues around the neck and skull, including headaches.

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Valerie's avatar

Also, breathing correctly is a huge issue with neck and thoracic pain sometimes.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

that is true, its autonomic, very difficult to remediate

The Yogis spend decades

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