How to Fix SHARP Pain Between the Shoulder Blades 

I’ve done these stretches before when I had really bad pain off to one side between the shoulder blades, and it’s the only thing that really helps. So glad I found your videos. It’s helped me so much. I can’t thank you enough.

Oh yeah these did it, Ive been having upper back tightness from sitting on the computer hunched over a lot that I could never stretch out, but i was always leaning back streteching with no luck but the learning forward and down motion really did it, thank you.

Thank you so much for this video and helping so many find pain relief.

Hey, hey, hey, DOC!!! Your Shoulder blade pump and sweep finally somehow released this clicking underneath my right shoulder blade, on my first set!!! I've had that for so long that I can't remember. I've been to many therapists, chiropractors, even several different myofascial trigger point release therapists (which is the therapy that did for me what all the other therapies never accomplished-- although I'm not saying they didn't help a lot. I was a hot mess.) What you do here is incredibly valuable. You're God's Chiropractic Angel! I hope somebody who reads this, and can draw or paint well, will do that and mail it to you! I wish you would designate a weekend when the weather is usually decent and let us all come up to celebrate together our appreciation for you! We could meet you and shake your hand, have a big pot luck meal together, you could tell us your story, and we could share some of our successes. Maybe there's a church or someplace up there with a big outdoor playground area, if anyone has kids to bring. I pray God's richest blessings overtake your life! Shalom!

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You're the man. A true healer. Thank you 🙏

Thank you very much Dr. Rowe for your generous, useful information ! And you are the best !

Incredible! As usual!

A couple sets of those sweep and pumps over the bed are killer! Thank you for sharing this information. I’m guessing it’s a result of bad posture but my pain along each shoulder blade nearly reached its worst today and these exercises are already helping. thank you

WOW! The Go-To Stretch with the band---what a great idea! 💡

I was in a car accident a week ago and injured my right rotator cuff. Since then I've had to use my left arm for lifting, carrying, etc. Today the pain in my left scapular area was excruciating! The stretches at the beginning of this video were so helpful. I'm still in pain, but not nearly as much. I intend to repeat the stretches on and off until the pain is gone entirely. Thank you Doctor Rowe!

It works on me. Its painful from the start, but after doing this exercise. I feel relieved from pain, and still I need to this until it remove my back pain. Thank you 😊

Thank you so much for this video! These stretches really relieved the terrible pain I had between my shoulder blades. I started off with this video, not being able to move at all without any pain, and after 10 minutes of stretching it got already a lot better. So grateful!

Thanks as always doc. Blessings on your day! 🤗

Excellent video with a lot of good information. Makes me appreciate how lucky we are to have this information on the Internet, where none of us would have had access to this information 30 years ago. Thank you.

Thank you Dr. Rowe

Thank you, doc! These exercises with roller helped me release the pain after all day work behind the desk. Have a nice day :)

This actually worked for me. Thank you

Thank you so very much for these very helpful videos, thank you for being here with us during these challenging times God Bless you 💪😘✌🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🌷🌷🌷

Wow, packed with info.

Wow. Thank you sooooooooo soooooo much. Your videos are awesome. Such a relief. This works so good on me. I had my whole left side stiff for years trying all kinds of things but the relief was always just for a day or so. Now I can finally help myself effectively. Greatings from Germany. God bless.

Wow. I was about to call off to work tomorrow, and you saved me. My pain improved 80% with just the first 2 exercises ❤

As always thanks brother 🤙🏾🤙🏾

Thanks as always Your video very much helpful to me I always practice everyday

Gonna try them hope it works! Thanks very much you seem like a very kind person

I totally screwed my back yesterday with the silliest thing playing my dog in the fields. I went for a big distance effort with a ball on a string and instantly: yowzers! Could barely get out of bed this morning. Like a turtle stuck on his back. Limited head and right arm movement without shooting pains. Got home after work, lay on my back and headed straight to your channel. Did these stretches against the wall and they really helped. I get this probably twice a year in on the right shoulder blade. I know it will work itself out as it always tends to with my physical work but the stretches are a game changer in terms of managing the early discomfort. Thank you so much ❤

Exactly what I needed. Thank you... again 😇🙏🖖

Thank you so much Dr Rowe!! It's been miserable for me for a couple of days. I just tried the standing wall stretches. I felt instant relief. This is amazing!!! Thank YOU!!!

Great video. Thank you!

My brother sent me your video on SI. I have had sciatica on and off for 2 years and right now for 2 months on the left side!!! I also have alot of pain in my right shoulder from a car accident when I was young. I will be doing these exercises soon!! SUBSCRIBED!!!

That was amazing after years and years of yoga I"ve never thought to stretch my upper back like that and I didn't hold it for the full 30 seconds and now I feel like some natural pain relief chemicals have been released because that space between my shoulders that hurts off and on for the past 7 years feels all warm and glowing. Thank you thank you thank you

Thank you so much for you effort in doing this video ❤

thank you so much!

These exercises are amazing especially for my upper cross syndrome and that pain between the shoulder blades. Also would really appreciate a video on UCS and better posture if you haven't made one already.

Thank you very much.

It feels kinda sore when you initially do it but after finishing it, u can feel some relief. Gonna add these stretches to my set for something new! Love your videos, there’s always a new stretch that helps with a new muscle that’s bothering me!

Hi Doc, you have no idea how good your exercises are doing to me. A Cameroonian from Paris France.Thanks.

Thank you!!!! This worked!! ❤

So helpful! Bless you! ❤

Bahut hi badiya ji. Thanks

can't wait to try this I pushed a 2000+ pallet on a jack that started rolling down hill on me. felt two symmetrical things pop in the exact area you have highlighted. seems a few times a year I can just be walking and it comes back strong.

Omg this works thankyou soo much i was in soo much pain

The exercise on the bed helped the most. I’ve had excruciating aching in the nerves to my arm and tingling in my fingers. It almost went away with just 3 sets, My question is how often should I do this to totally eliminate my symptoms without overdoing it?

This actually worked instantly, wow.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="558">9:18</a> This exercise did wonders after already one session on pain i had under my left shoulder for over a year.

Thanks!

This dude is legit.

Doc, I SERIOUSLY need a little advice regarding this. My spine is a mess (8 collapsed discs,pinched nerves etc) but my right shoulder blade, I swear it's torture, and on the inside part (left of the bone) towards the spine theres like a concave depression that's EXTREMELY painful. It feels like the muscle there is going through a cheese grater. My doctor said it's too loose, like there's too much movement and likely detached from the bone. Will this help ease the pain even a little bit while I'm getting setup with a specialist? It's horrible pain. Thanks for all your awesome videos, keep up great work

Nothing has successfully hit this spot I have watched so many videos, thank you. Would you say repetition of these exercises could stop this pain altogether?

Wow.. this really works.. Another informative and helpful video.. Once again you rock Dr. Rowe. Have gotten behind on watching your videos but gotta get caught up.. Thanks so much! 60 Comments

Thank you so much for this awesome video! Would you be opposed to trying out a THOREX back massager to target this area as well?

Tried to do first stretch. Did not have a therapy band so used resistance tubes. Tubes suddenly snapped up my back and tangled badly in my very long hair! 🤣🤣🤣 Moving on to bandless exercises. I’m determined to make some of these work. The area between my shoulder blades opposite my large heavy chest is ALWAYS fatigued and sore! Edit: I liked the standing against the door exercises better than leaning on a bed/chair because I felt more stable. Very much liked the foam roller exercises. The floor angel got me a crack! And wow the shoulder blade lift off is harder than it looks! I can definitely use strengthening in that area!!!

Another I would recommend is to do rotator cuff workout with a theraband tied to something, both up and down, and sideways. Works like magic for me.

I need to do the Shoulder Blade Sweep & Pump.

thanks dude :)

Where can I purchase the cylinder pillow that you used in the video. The instructions are terrific. Thanks for sharing.

Bro you are legendary. So much quality content for free. Love you so much.

hey! nice video! I get this sharp pinching pain on my right side ONLY when I row with a load (working out at the gym). Would these exercises help as well? The pain feels like a very thin muscle fiber is being stretched to its limit. However its only when i contract my rhomboids (the rowing motion where I squeeze my scapulas together) i feel that sharp pinch - where the muscles are contracting. Would this suggest it is a muscle strain?

I've found the Bow and Arrow exercise with a thera-band words wonders.

This past Thursday i woke up with middle of my shoulder blade with sharp pain that radiates to my upper rib cage. Two years ago fell forward hitting elbows and ribs and hip and face and my finger dislocated… plus during covid i had back pain. So recently i was moving heavy plant pots a day or two before I woke up in pain. A doctor said possibly neurothopy. Yes provably. I have autoimmune too. I am hoping i can do this exercise. Thinking to seeing a spine specialist to see if i have nerve damage.

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Would these exercises be alright for the following: mild disc @ T2-3. Lobulated disc pro at T7-8 There could be contact with the intrathecal ventral nerve root, right greater than left. Minimal disc bulging at T8-9. Small effusion is seen on the left at T12-L1. Central canal stenosis is moderate at T7-8 related to disc protrusion. I have severe pain under shoulder blades especially on the left. I do stretches and started rowing exercises which seem to help, however, minimal basic tasks brings a lot of tightness and pain to the point of my back locking up.

Doc, I have burning pain in my left knee, due to lower back issues. Which of your videos do you recommend to give me relief without paying to go to my chiropractor? 😳

Thank you, this is consistently a problem area for me.

i see you respond often and wanted you to give your opinion. for 4-6 months now i have had a pain in my upper right shoulderblade/back kinda near the armpit but not armpit related if that makes sense. just an idea of the area. its instense and sharp. but it ONLY hurts when im on my break at work and after work. i am active at work and am moving alot. but nothing that would cause this. its becoming seriously unbearable i cant handle it anymore. and i have an appointment for a doctor soon but its not for weeks. what do you think it can be

Hey sir, I began stretching really hard in my legs and while I'm stretching, I think my vein got cut or I really don't know, but 3 weeks later, I squat some heavy weights and I feel some pain in my legs, can you help me out?

Please Make a video on spondylolyisthesis

Thanks you my pain is now gone !!!

Thanks. I can't work more than 3 hours without the pain. I'm getting a computer chair that goes high enough and doing your exercises. Thank you.

Hi Doc! I have had back pain under both shoulder blades for more than 10 years. I would like to know what causes this. I go to the gym. In addition, I regularly do gymnastics on my back on the ground. I also do the exercises you showed, I have been to many massage therapists and manual therapists, but the pain never goes away. I don't know what else I can do. I also use SMR foam roller regularly. Sometimes the pain lessens, but it never goes away.

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Is that a Oakworks table? I make those treatment tables and spa tables 😁

The first standing one against the door, will that cause aggravation within the shoulder joints? I have neck, all of back and shoulder issues plus right wrist, {that the upper body issues, lol} my back, between shoulder blades, Lower, mid n upper are always painful, every day, same with neck. The levels just vary In severity. I’ve had many problems since I was 22 when I had my first whiplash car accident. Worked 20 years in the postal system as a mail officer which was heavy n repetitive mail sorting n slightly leaning over machinery. During that time I had 3 more whiplash incidents, all small but building on top of each other. I’ve had facet joint injections, nerve blocks in shoulders/neck several times. I leave Aussie Post to go easy on myself n start work as a therapy assistant in aged care, within 18 months I injured my lower back L4L5 S1.. in 2007. I had a disctectomy/laminectomyin 2010. Eased the leg nerve pain but have ongoing back pain. 4 years ago I fell n fractured my R wrist, got CRPS straight after then realised I also had the start of Dupuytrens Contracture. Wrist hasn’t really fixed itself although the fractures healed well I now also have arthritis in that wris and get strange sharp nerve pain in that forearm and that wrist cracks, kinda feels like the bones are stuck at times and aches. Few months ago I had terribly sore feet so had an X-ray/ ultrasound on both. Yay! I now have metatarsal bursitis in both, 2/3 and 3/4 mortons neuroma in both plus arthritis in big toes and upper foot/ankle. Had cortisone injections in the biggest neuroma in each foot recently with not much help. I guess I’m writing all this as it’s hard to be motivated to exercise or do much at all. Depression n anxiety ontop of everything doesn’t help. I’m lazy, I’ve NEVER ever been into fitness and it puts you off when you feel pain doing stuff. How does one deal with movement, exercise n doing stretches on one part of the body when do that actually feels like your putting stress on or aggravating another body part by doing so? I freely admit I don’t do stretches or anything like I should, I don’t go to the hydro pool when I should be, I did on occasions go walking and quite enjoy that but I’d be spasmodic then not go for weeks. Now the walking is hard as for the intense totally random sharp stabbing pains in feet from god knows which of the three issues or maybe all three? How do I make myself or motivate myself to do any of the things I’m meant to/ I’m in Perth West Australia so it’s not like I can come see you. Be great to pay someone to help me, have physio or massage n acupuncture etc etc also but I’m unemployed due to all the issues (places just terminate me or sneakily find ways of getting rid of me, too much sick leave and I guess I’m a liability. Geez.. I don’t sound too happy do I…lol. Strangely enough I’m actually quite a fun joker type of individual 😜 Lisa (sorry for any un-noticed typos)

Beutyfull exercise 👍 I am from sri lanka

I have had almost two years under shoulder blade right side very irritating pain it formed for too repititive sport on ice hockey and the pain only activates when i try to make a deep breath so its coming with pain and blocking me to catch a good breath. Otherwise these exercises are great :)

I will be trying this! I'm hunched over a lot at work. Ugh

Dr. Doc, please advise z spec for 24 inch foam roller

Ok, so I don't have a band, or a sheet, or a foam roller. Cool.. Great. Thx for the help

These work but for a very limited time. After doing these the discomfort subsides but within 30 minutes it hurts again as if I'd done nothing. I even did these for several days in a row. The search for relief continues I suppose.

Since having the flu jab in april in upper arm ..its now august...its uncomfortable to lay on my left arm and certain arm movements hurt. I've used muscle creams on my upper arm shoulder but the problem is still there. What can b I do please?

What are your thoughts on Decompression tables?

I get random pinch or trapped nerve sensation that lasts about 20 seconds but it's debilitating when it happens.

snap crackle pop yup it sounds like that lol

I did these yesterday and I can’t lay on my back anymore… My back is completely covered in blue bruises… My shoulder blades hurt even more than before… I did everything exactly as in the video and I don’t know what went wrong :(

I don't know how you do it, but you always seem to post the exact issue I have at the time I have it! Or at least the suggestions come up?? Telepathic!

Did the foam rolling just now and pain is gone. Thank you.

Same left sit continue 1 year pai what prablom

I’ve had this same pain on the left side for at least 5 years now hurts when tuck my chin in and lean my head back 😫😫😫

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When I lay on my side no matter where I move the pillow it kinda hurts the base of my neck... When I lay on my side and put pillow between legs , it doesnot help the situation.. I just don't lay on side! .. I tried slept with pillow under my thighs knees last night thinking it's a pelvic tilt?.. but I'm guessing.. But it hurts worse in my bank in the morning.. I don't know what the hell it exactly is wrong with me.. It's all guessing. But I cannot lay strate on my back or sideways .. Please suggest ANYBODY what this could be..

Mid back streches

Doesn't work. The stretches make it hurt worse. It feels like I'm being branded from the inside. My Dr. told me it was from Achalasia and that it was my esophagus going into spasm. I can't breathe deep, burp or put ice on it cause it causes more pain. I have to shallow breathe. I wish there was an answer

Spondylolyisthesis exercises

How you keep them Sneakers so FRESSSHHH?

I hope that he does some videos geared to professional waiters and hospitality people.

the annoying part is, they do work, but they doesn't fix the underlying issue which is soooooo hard to find, even for doctors, so yes this does exactly what is says it reliefs from the sharp pain but as soon as you get back to your activities, its back, ti's like a needle is lodged in my shoulder blade

No amount of comfort helps my knees

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