Thank you! So wish I lived close or found someone in my area that could work like you! Gentle and effective!

great vid! i've been through shoulder impingement in both shoulders over the last 5 years or so. I'm the classic desk jockey who exercises mostly with their legs when what I should have been doing preventative work on the shoulders as well. For me, downard/upward dogs as part of the running/cycling warmup and just hanging from a bar just create enough variation in motion to keep that shoulder ROM honest :-) thanks Dr. Russ!

Another excellent deep dive I hope Seattle-area body work professionals will digest. I appreciate that you know your muscle/tendon relationships and can discuss them with particularity with regard to symptom causation - sounds like it should be standard practice, but most of the chiros and massage therapists I've encountered respond to my "which muscle is that?"-type questions with, "oh, I learned all of those muscle names in school, but over time I've learned to go more by feel." When I ask, "why is this the way it is?," "what might have caused that?," or "how can I prevent that from happening again in the future?," the answer is usually vague enough to suggest the answer is unknowable. As a patient charged with the lifelong responsibility of caring for my biologic/mechanical body to avoid pain and premature degeneration/injury, I prefer to know the mechanical relationships among the moving/static parts so I can better understand the process and, therefrom, work more accurately on fixing the problem(s), so I appreciate the more technical approach. One thing I thought I'd see in the video was mention of a connection between shoulder discomfort and feelings of tightness in the armpit area on arm movement (esp. reaching overhead and back, putting tension into the armpit region) (possibly related - hand is also 4-7 degrees colder on the affected side). What muscle/tendon relationship, if any, exists between front/rear/side (delt) shoulder discomfort (on movement, sometimes static) and tight armpit mechanicals (with, or without, hand temp differential)? Thanks for taking the time to provide this worthwhile content.

@DrRussInYourPocket

7 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for the great comment!!! The muscles I'd be thinking of with tightness in the armpit and possible hand temperature changes are the subscap and the latissimus, both of which will restrict flexion and abduction, and either of which can entrap the neurovascular bundle in the axilla. Thank you for watching!

@upload2352

7 ай бұрын

@@DrRussInYourPocket And I thank you for the prompt and useful response. Fingers crossed you'll open a branch office up here someday!

2nd!