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Originally Posted by Coop42
Adhesions are something I don't really hear talked about much, on here, or even by doctors and therapists. I've never been to a therapist who had me do much more than general stretching or lying on some foam rollers to try and stretch the chest area out. I know many others have tried that stuff without much luck. The more I stretch and do this Intu-Flow I'm realizing that it takes movement to stretch out the joints and free up the adhesions. The movement also brings nutrition to the joints so they can heal.
If you think about it it makes a lot of sense. The joints are where the nerves tend to get impinged. I hear many people on here, including myself, that have wrist and elbow pain and I don't think that all of starts in the neck. I read somewhere that there's 10 or 12 places that the nerves can be impinged from the neck down to the hand. By doing a total joint mobility program like this I'm hoping that over time the nerves will get freed up in some of these areas.
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Any place the brachial plexus is touched by muscle (the entire length of it), it can be affected by muscle tension. BUT... only minimally except by the scalenes, pec minor and sometimes in axilla region by corocobrachialis.
Be careful working around the neck and in the armpit. Nerves, blood vessels--lots of stuff can be injured by even light pressure.
All this talk of stretching? Muscles themselves don't stretch--golgi tendon organ at the joint and muscle spindles in the belly of muscle protect the muscles from overstretch. What you're stretching, I think, is the fascial covering that binds muscles in bundles and the skin covering to muscles. The best way to do that IMO is with myofascial release. A forearm is pressed into a broad plane to the depth of slight tenderness; the therapist will hold there until the tissue in his direction of travel relaxes; he will take the sweep all the way down the muscle, adjust position and sweep the other direction-- MFR practitioner will hold wherever he encounters adhesion or a trigger point. Covering one quadrant of the back can take half an hour or more. MFR can be used on thighs, forearms, back, buttocks, chest. Full body MFR, 2-2.5 hours. But the results are miraculous.