Muscle Management

0:01 Good morning. Good afternoon.

0:02 Possibly.

0:03 Good evening. Welcome to muscle management for elbow pain.

0:06 I'm Tom Sayers and I'm your host, whether you have carpenter's elbow, tennis, elbow climber's elbow, golfer's elbow doesn't really matter.

0:17 It's been labeled some type of situation and the commonality is you have pain in your elbow.

0:22 Fortunately, there are oftentimes, muscular components that are contributing to that pain, much like any pain throughout the body and you can manage that reduce those problems and oftentimes you can get the pain to disappear.

0:37 So fortunately, there are three muscles that are very commonly contributing to this problem.

0:44 The triceps, specifically the long head where it comes up off the elbow and attaches to the scapula, the teres minor and the Teres major, which are done from the scapula in into the humerus.

0:57 What's interesting is as the tricep goes up to the scapula, it interlaces between the Teres minor and the teres major.

1:05 What often happens is those muscles where ideally they can slide back and forth on each other.

1:11 What often happens is they get adhered, they get stuck to each other.

1:16 TWhat happens often after that is you might feel a little tension in your shoulder more often than not, the pain lands down, the tension lands down in your elbow.

1:26 And fortunately, this is something we can manage and reduce.

1:29 So I wanna show you two techniques for this.

1:32 One is basically what's called a pin and stretch.

1:36 I'm gonna reach under my arm.

1:38 Fine.

1:40 My scapula move up towards the top edge of it.

1:43 I'm gonna use one finger.

1:44 In this case, I'm gonna push in while I rotate my arm just enough pressure to feel like I've made contact that I feel like I have the bone under there.

1:54 Move the arm around, OK.

1:56 Move down a little bit, press and move, maybe move down a little further down and move.

2:06 OK?

2:07 Now, second technique, I'm gonna use three fingers this time.

2:10 It's kind of a nudge a cross fiber technique.

2:12 If you will up under find, find the scapula, get close to the edge and my pressure is gonna be in, in that way.

2:26 So in OK, maybe move in a little bit.

2:36 That's it.

2:37 They're simple.

2:38 They're oftentimes effective and fortunately, they're easy to test, be patient with yourself.

2:45 You may not notice pain reduction immediately but you probably notice some pain back here when you're pushing.

2:52 That's usually an indication that those muscles are involved.

2:56 Now, I've got more information at muscle management dot com in the self help section.

3:02 Cruise it. I think you'll like it.

3:04 Fortunately upcoming are gonna be some presentations on foot pain and I'm talking pain around the big toe, which is often labeled bunions on the bottom of your foot, which is often labeled plantar fasciitis.

3:19 And our old pal shin splints.

3:22 I'll post something here on youtube when those are ready to be viewed.

3:26 It's all useful information.

3:28 And remember, you can do something about your pain and oftentimes it doesn't require surgery, it doesn't require special shoes or a toe spreader or any.

3:38 And all of those snakes oftentimes there's some muscular component and the muscular component is oftentimes the core issue of what's going on, take care of that pain's gone.

3:49 Hope you have a nice day, enjoy and remember you must be present to win.

MUSCLE MANAGEMENT