This is Manu and Kaliya, physical therapists, and I, we're the Herbalists.
This is another technique you guys can use to improve the flexibility or mobility of the
shoulder and more specifically for being able to reach overhead. So some of you guys asked me to
show you some other techniques to get that shoulder mobility better. So especially being
able to reach overhead. If there's soft tissue restrictions and possibly even the joint is
a bit stiff, this can help with that. Getting that rib cage out of those structures, your lats
and your triceps to help mobilize and stretch those structures so you have less restriction
when you're reaching overhead. This is a relatively easy way to do that. So you can use a chair or
anything that's stable and there are different ways to do this. This is one position. So when I'm
going to do that, I'm going to stretch my right side. So I lock in my right elbow and all I do is
I'm going to work at sitting down. So I have to be in full nailing position if I want
and I can do both at the same time too, but we're going to do one. So the first part is just being
able to sit back. As I sit back and I bring my chest down, I get to stretch a lot of these
structures here, this area. I can use my hand here if I need to stabilize and bring my body down
and I can go to the left, I can go to the right side and you can hang out and oscillate and see
which structures are tighter. So you can see how this works at improving the mobility of that
whole region. So if I decide I want to get more of the triceps, you can even bend the elbow
and then I could down here. So now I might get some more stretching in this region too.
And if I sit back further, I'm going to start opening up a lot of these structures.
As I said, oscillate side to side to see what areas are tighter so you can hit it from different
angles. The next thing you can do is if you want to just isolate and you want to say,
okay, maybe I want to get the upper part more, I don't want to hit these structures as much.
Same position, I can lock it down. Now I'm going to reach over with my left hand,
I'm going to grab my shoulder blade. I'm going to tack it down so it doesn't move or hold it in
place and I'm going to do the same thing and I'm going to sit down and now I get a bit of a stronger
stretch in this area and I'm going to sit down and again, oscillate, hang out, mobilize,
go to the right a little bit, go to the left. So you're hitting it in different directions.
I can move down a little so I can come even further. A good way to get at that shoulder
to get a lot of these soft tissue structures, bend that elbow and now I can really hang out here
and I can even use my hand to glide down a little bit to mobilize that tissue.
So it's a good way to work at getting that range back, get that mobility of that shoulder.
You just have to be cautious and make sure there are no other joint issues happening,
my joint restriction. For that you might need to be more specific. You've got to mobilize that joint,
the glenohumeral joint, the shoulder joint, to make sure that joint mechanics are correct.
If it's not impinging or it's not getting caught. So sometimes if you get to the top and you get
an impingement or pinching, it can also be, of course, the joint mechanics are not correct.
So the joint capsule is too tight and it's not in the right position and it's not and it's
resulting in impingement or pinching of either the rotator cuff or some of the other subchroms
or other structures that are getting compressed in that space. So you've got to be careful about
that when you're doing this movement. But otherwise you're just trying to get that mobility back and
get some of your rib cage, a lot of these other soft tissue structures, mobilize and just improve
the length of those tissues. So a good way to get at that. So I hope you enjoyed that video.
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