Thoracic Outlet Syndrome massage tip for professionals

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5 жыл бұрын

Massage therapy tip for therapist addressing (Thoracic) Outlet Syndrome due to compression of the brachial plexus.
This instructional video by Doug Holland, LMT adresses 2 main areas that can cut of nerve and blood supply to the arm. Symptoms are numbness, weakness, and pain.
www.hollandreflexology.com/wil...
Always see your Doctor first for a clear diagnosis, that you indeed have TOS before going to your LMT.

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@hollandmassagereflexology2000 5 жыл бұрын

Do you have pain or a weird sensation that starts on the side of your neck, pokes deep in the shoulder, runs down your arm, and makes your fingers tingle? More information here for therapists www.hollandreflexology.com/will-massage-help-for-thoracic-outlet-syndrome/

@CR-to8gw 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video - this guy knows his stuff.

@jennagreen4375 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for drawing that on there! Your video is the best at visually describing what's going on thoracic outlet syndrome

@Timfrol 10 ай бұрын

just copying someoneelses comment here:"Thank you for drawing that on there! Your video is the best at visually describing what's going on thoracic outlet syndrome" thank you so muchfor the video!

@davidyounker8627 2 ай бұрын

My son has bracheal plexus syndrome. Thanks for sharing.

@matthewcyr1565 4 жыл бұрын

Loved it! Especially the comment about the pain/discomfort and "fru fru" massage lol. I tell my clients that all the time!

@hollandmassagereflexology2000 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mathew! We want to help them with real muscle work!

@Icemax1970 11 ай бұрын

Great video

@kennoda2068 7 ай бұрын

thank you ❤️

@jimmcintyre4390 8 ай бұрын

I wish you were in my neighborhood. You know your stuff!

@dr.nicholaslorenznaprapath2137 4 жыл бұрын

I dig it

@MK-mt5rk 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much,Can I do massage after Cortizone injection? please respond

@CyanidePierce90 2 жыл бұрын

Is it also common for this pain to originate from the mid upper back. I think trapezium or rhomboids (looking at diagrams). A past physio once massaged the 1st rib through the clavicle area and i felt like that was hitting the source.

@Stoffendous Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what is giving me pain currently. I also have, as you mentioned in the video, extreme tightness in my traps. Why is this and why does it not react to anything whether it be masasage, dry needling, or stretching?

@VertinaR 5 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this. This is the clearest explanation that I've seen and I'll be using these tips moving forward. 🌹

@nagalakshmibanka3325 2 ай бұрын

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

@cybermanne Жыл бұрын

What if the pec minor is tight, but the pain is on the medial edge and high up on the scapula and there is no winging? I got this a few days ago, and the pain is real bad, especially if I'm sitting down in front of the computer. What seems to fix it temporarily is smashing the armpit with a lacrosseball. I think what's actually happening is that the scapula gets pushed medially as if it was stuck out there. Pretty weird because the scapula really isn't stuck. It seems to move normally and I can't see any winging or such. It does hurt a bit in the serratus anterior area when I'm doing scapular pushups though. But no winging as far as I can tell. Another thing that eases the pain temporarily is all kinds of external rotation exercises and abduction movements and lower trap activation stuff.

@hollandmassagereflexology2000 Жыл бұрын

Classic Rhomboid minor barking because of countering the pec minor.

@cybermanne Жыл бұрын

@@hollandmassagereflexology2000 Thanks a lot! Sounds reasonable since poking in the rhomb minor area where it hurts seems to also decrease pain and irritation. I guess the remedy would be massaging and stretching the pec minor? But why would activating the rhomb minor decrease pain (as retraction like theraband pullaparts seems to help temporarily)? To me that sounds a bit counterintuitive since the rhomb minor would then just be even more overworked. Or am I missing something?

@hollandmassagereflexology2000 Жыл бұрын

@@cybermanne I would only focus on pec minor. RM is overworking and needs the pec minor to reverse its hypertonicity. :)

@cybermanne Жыл бұрын

@@hollandmassagereflexology2000 Yeah. I've been trying to get it to calm down. But it's really stubborn. So I was trying to figure out what the root cause of the pec minor being so "spastic", especially since there is no scapular winging. The only thing I've found is that the lats on the same side seems to not want to allow the humerus to externaly rotate in an oh position. I've done some butcher block stretches for lats while holding a dowel forcing ext rot. This and improving T-spine rotation seems to help the pec minor relax a bit. I'm not sure of what the connection would be though. Any thoughts?

@hollandmassagereflexology2000 Жыл бұрын

@@cybermanne I take a drumstick with two hands and drive into the coracoid process to de signal origin of Bicep's Brachii, Coracobrachialis, and insertion of pec minor. It has never failed for me but each person is different so let us know what becomes successful for you. Good fortune!