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Front of Elbow Pain When Carrying or Shoveling

Pain While Carrying Patients complain of this pain in the front of their elbow when picking up and carrying things. Heavier objects may produce sharper pain. Even moderately heavy objects can create an achy pain in the bicep with a sharper pain in the pocket of the elbow. This elbow pain tends to be less […]

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Elbow Pain When Pushing

The trigger point referral patterns discussed here all create pain in the elbow from trigger points in the triceps muscle. Mostly, this pain occurs when you forcefully straighten the elbow. When they are chronic, they hurt all the time. Many patients complain of “tennis elbow.” Therapeutically, it is called “lateral epicondylitis” and can come from

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Self-Care – Shoulder Pain in Back, Reaching Up and Around

Here, you can find ways to get relief on your own from pain in the back of your shoulder that flares up when you reach up and around. You can read more about how people describe this pain and the activities that typically create the problem in this other post. You can usually lasting relief

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Shoulder Pain and Neck Tension in Golf Swing

Shoulder Pain During Swing Patients complain about pain in the shoulder occurring at the end of their golf swing. When I ask them to demonstrate, they slowly go through the golf swing, pausing a little extra at the end to produce the pain. Sometimes they will not get the pain unless they make the motion

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Self-Care – Supraspinatus

Here, you will find self-care that offers relief for the supraspinatus muscle offers the solution to the problems presented in more than one post: Pain and clicking while grooming Unresolvable tennis elbow Shoulder pain when carrying Relief from shoulder and elbow pain can be simple with stretching or icing. At times, this is more serious.

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Self-Care – Spot of Pain Behind Shoulder

Here, you will find strategies for relief from that small spot of pain behind your shoulder. For more information about how people describe this pattern, look at this other post. This problem usually, but not always, occurs after you have resolved pain problems in the infraspinatus. Not caring for this may re-activate a pattern of pain

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Self Care – Aching mid-back with tired triceps

Avoid things that yank your elbow from front to back, like cranking the lawnmower, raking, or letting that dog jerk the leash. That mid-back will start aching into the triceps. Likewise, This trigger point gets aggravated by allowing the rowing machine to jerk forward during the exercise. Awkward Twisting One client activated by compressing the

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Self Care – Pain in the Front of Shoulder When Lifting Arm

Overview Here, you can find self-care strategies for relief on your own from trigger points in the pectoralis minor. Typically, this includes pain in the front of the shoulder when lifting your arm. Additionally, there may be pain in the forearm and occasionally the hand. In this other post, you can read more about how

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Self Care – Scalene Pain of Upper Back, Arm & Hand

Overview Scalene muscles produce a number of patterns that can be experienced separately. These self-care strategies are great for relief from that pain and tingling in your hand along the index finger and thumb. Often, this includes pain in the upper back, along the shoulder blade described in this post. Additionally, it can leave you

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