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Self Care – Can’t Reach Pain Under the Shoulder Blade

This post offers strategies for relief when you can’t reach that pain under your shoulder blade. Learn more about how people describe, activate, and perpetuate the pain by looking at this other post. Typically, people ignore this pain that they can’t reach under the shoulder blade until it becomes chronic. At that point, these trigger […]

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Self Care – Breathing Exercises to Reduce Shoulder Tension

One of my clients describes this as the best exercise for shoulder and upper back tension. He thinks it should be the first exercise that I give people, regardless of their problem. It really does reduce shoulder and upper back tension in a magical way. I noticed significant differences over the 1st month when I

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Self Care – Pain in Shoulder Joint or Inside Shoulder Blade

Here we discuss how you can get relief from shoulder pain while sleeping and from pain inside the shoulder blade. How people describe that pain and activities that create the pain are discussed in these other posts: Change your sleeping position: You can reduce shoulder pain from this rotator cuff muscle by changing your sleeping

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Self Care – Doorway Stretches for Chest Muscles

These doorway stretches for chest muscles are classic because they’re quick, effective, and can be done almost anywhere. It is easy to stop at most doorways on your way back from the kitchen, office, or bathroom. They stretch the extrinsic chest muscles. Daily stretches can offer notable relief and postural change even with minimal effort.

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Self-Care – Nagging Pain Inside The Bottom of the Shoulder Blade

Here, you’ll find ways to get relief on your own from nagging pain just inside the bottom of your shoulder blade. Also, you can read about how people describe this pain and activities that aggravate the condition in this post. Move! As much fun as it is to shop online and lean in, Sit up

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Self Care – Seated Stretches for Stiff, Swollen Hands

This simple set of stretches has 3 parts: Part 1: Release the Top of the Neck I’ve worked with neck specialists for over 20 years. I’ve seen hundreds of cases where balancing the upper neck immediately changes the lower neck without ever working on the lower neck directly. Don’t underestimate the importance of these first

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Quick and easy hangover relief

Client’s Description Crapulence – Sickness caused by excessive drinking. 2. Excessive indulgence; intemperance. [From late Latin crāpulentus, very drunk, from Latin crāpula, intoxication, from Greek kraipalē.] crap′u·lent adj. People complain of headache, nausea, and misery that follow a night of excessive drinking. Unlike my other posts, people don’t come into my office complaining of this. This is usually

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Stretching for scalene muscles

Here are some specific stretches for scalene muscles that have been recommended by many sources over the years. They were published in the self-care section on scalenes in the research of Janet Travell, the physician to two presidents. Clinical experience has proven them to be effective for helping the problematic effects of tight scalene muscles. Helpful

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Self Care – Basics of Ice-and-Stretch

Pain. Soreness. Restricted range of motion. The combination of stretching and icing can rid these ailments quickly if done correctly. Any stretching routine can be faster, more effective, and easier when combined with icing. Ice-and-stretch is an excellent adaptation of two other popular practices: Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) and Stretch-N-Spray. Ice and stretch is an

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