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Old 12-21-2013, 12:25 PM
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1. The shoulder shrugs are interesting for the instruction to move the shoulders forward or backward. I've only seen one study on using shoulder shrugs for TOS. They had a positive outcome, but I think they were just standard shrugs.

2. This would flare me up. Repeated reaching overhead does that to me.

3. This would probably flare me up too. Push ups and wall push ups give me my most delayed flare up. Basically as the muscles get stronger they also get a little tighter and a little bigger, for which I don't have any tolerance. Do yourself a favor and at least add chest stretches right afterwards and then again later that day.

4. I absolutely cannot do this. Have done it in the past and it flares me up. This makes my left rib elevate. (left is my main TOS side)

5. I've done this before without problems. Usually with arms out to the side in some configuration. Referring to the arm position, people call these YTLs or YTWs and such.

6. I don't know if this would bother me or not.

You'll have to let us know how the exercises go for you.

Thanks for taking the time to share and type this up.

Here is the shoulder shrug info:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...d.php?t=162369

Last edited by chroma; 12-21-2013 at 01:16 PM. Reason: typo
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