Shoulder Massage

Video Transcript

"Hello. My name's Rebecca Herrick. I'm here at Everything Peaceful in Wilmington, North Carolina, to explain how to give a shoulder massage. You can work on the shoulder from many different aspects. I'm working at it on a here from a prone aspect. You can also work on it from a seated position. Or from a supine position. Either way you want to really focus on all the tendons, ligaments and muscle attachments for, that hold the humorous here in place in the shoulder girdle. There are many muscles here called the rotator cuff that you want to address. Which is actually four muscles. And basically working cross fiber friction, working to increase the joint mobility. You can move the arm into this position. Extend that joint, that lets you to get a good pull, a good transverse friction into the muscles over the scapula which is often where the troubles exist in somebody's shoulder. You can also extend the arm over the front of the table and that helps to again increase that joint space. And, and of course, you can stretch the shoulder out by having the arm by the side. And that is the basics of how to give a shoulder massage."