Common Shoulder Impingement Points

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Anthony Baron Kirk. In this segment I'd like to talk about a stretch associated with this localized painful spot. Just a quick note on that area, what we're really trying to accomplish with the tennis ball and with the stretch, so we can think of this area of the body as being hyper-tight, overactive, or for some of us even spasming, causing enough pain and discomfort that may keep you up at night. So with the tennis ball what we've done essentially is deactivate the area. So if you think of the muscle as a rubber band, add several knots in this rubber band, this tennis ball as I apply the pressure into one of those knots, eventually will help deep within that muscle tissue, called the muscle spindles, to actually release. So facilitating this little release, you're going to actually deactivate that adhesion or knot, many names for it, but painful spot you can think of it. So in a stretch position what I will do then is lengthen out that area that I've just deactivated. So essentially we're trying to get that rubber band to be free of knots and extensible, so we can stretch that rubber band without and infringement or impingement. So one of the very good reasons and main reason for stretching is we want to lengthen out the muscle tissue. So often times we're addressing in-balance, so to lengthen out one side, we're going to help to create strength on the other side, so ultimately getting this balance, this point to a balanced position, lengthened on both sides, equally strong."