How to Give a Massage Around the Scapula

Series Summary

Massage is a popular and beneficial treatment method for a variety of ailments, and had been for centuries. Evidence of the use of massage has been found in many ancient civilization such as china, India, Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Hippocrates, the Greek physician whom the Hippocratic oath is named after is purported to have said, “The physician must be experienced in many things, but assuredly in rubbing.” And if Hippocrates said it, then it must be true. And even if the massage techniques of today fall short in creativity compared to those of yesteryear—in Romania, some illnesses were treated by the patient being tread upon by a tame bear—they are decidedly safer, and some would argue, more effective.

In this free videos series, our expert Alexson Roy will teach you how to give a scapula massage. He will teach you how to warm up the muscles, how to do outward strokes, how to massage and separate the muscles from he scapula, and how to work out the knots. Alexson will teach you the arm behind the back technique and how to roll and pull. He will even show yo how to finish the massage with a rotator cuff and infraspinatus massage.

Video Transcript

"Hello and you're watching Expert Village. My name is Alexson and I'm your therapist today. This is a series on massage therapy. In this particular series we are going to focus on the scapula or the rotator cuff. There are several muscles that are attributed to discomfort or any type of tension you may have from the rotator cuff so that's what we are going to go over today. We are going to explain the muscles, we are going to explain how we're going to relieve the tension and also we're going to show you different stretches that you can do to maintain and have, I guess, mobility in your rotator cuff."