I am so glad that I have found your instruction. What a great teacher. Thankyou so much for teaching in a calm, respectful and clear manner. Thankyou for providing this content on RU-vid.
omgod this is the best video I've ever discovered in terms of shoulder and neck pain. It really gives you simple tools to release those triggers yourself
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Good sir, I have watched a couple of your videos on trigger points and its release and I tried it on my mother and aunt and boy, it worked like a charm. My mother's rock hard trapezius feels 30% loose in just one day and my aunty slept peacefully without any neck pain. Im very very grateful to you for providing this education free of cost! I really pray that God blesses you abundantly! Love from India
Thank you Nat for this information,I have had a chronic shoulder pain,chest and upper back pain for so long,I have several CT scan but for the first time I followed your instructions and I'm feeling relief right now, Be blessed
Dear Dr. Kuttner, your treatment of Levator Scapulae is so effective, please post a video for the trigger point release for the semispinalis capitis and cervicis. Thank you for the videos.
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If I have a very tight Trapezius muscle, can this cause headaches up and over the right side of my skull and in behind my eye? And at times when it is real bad cause vision disturbances? Along with this I get pain in my right shoulder area near my neck.
Absolutely, tight trapezius muscles can indeed contribute to headaches that radiate to the skull and behind the eye, often referred to as tension headaches. It's also not uncommon for this tension to impact your vision temporarily due to muscle strain around the neck and head area. We recommend consulting with a healthcare professional for a personalized treatment plan, which might include trigger point therapy to help relieve these symptoms. 🙏
@@Nielasher If I may ask, what type of health care professional would I contact that would be familiar with these muscles and how to treat them? I live in Canada.
OMG, i had this issue for years, i always message my right traps without getting a relief, and i always feels a pain under my traps and was wondering how can i treat it, thanks a lot
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Hi Riley, Trigger points in the spleni muscles at the base of the skull, Levator Scapuae and Middle Trapezius can refer pain over the head. You can try gentle massage over the those areas along with heat, if you find this relieves the problem you are probably a good candidate for Myofascial Trigger Point therapy. Thank you very much for your feedback. Please make sure to subscribe or for more information please visit our website www.nielasher.com/blog
Hi doctor i have a trigger point in my shoulder and I feel pain between spine and shoulder since two years please I want from you solution for me please
Can they also cause upper back pain between scapula and spine? When I apply pressure on them I can feel the pain on same upper back spot. Plus one scalene trigger point also shows same pain referral patter. Would eliminating these two help?
Does this problem ever go away permanently? It has been 2 years I am so sick and tired with this same upper trapezius and shoulder too. It has literally destroyed my life.
Hi, If the relevant trigger points are addressed then it should be relieved. The problem is, that often the primary trigger point in this area is missed and only the satellite points are treated, or worse still trigger points in a different muscle are treated. Levator Scapulae and Trapezius are good examples of this phenomenon, because of the complexity of the structures. Often this can only be alleviated by a therapist treating the area. Of course any perpetuating factors need to be addressed, to prevent this problem returning. Thank you very much for your feedback. Please make sure to subscribe or for more information please visit our website www.nielasher.com/blog
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I really need your help doctor I’ve got that over 10 years from stress with ringing in my left ear could please tell me where are you or to talk to you via what’s up - all my best dear
It's been a while since I used your trigger point chart but it's gone? currently having terrible pain on the medial side of left knee can you help and is the trigger point chart still available
I found it interesting that my levator or traps pop when I do the trap stretch where you tilt your head to the side and down, but after I ice the sore area it doesn't pop when I do the stretch for a while after icing. Trying to ice and heat more often. Does anyone else get that pop when they try to stretch their traps?
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none, Deep tissue Fascial Message therapist. Search for that. It should not be cheap, nor comfortable. Its painful and expensive ($80-100 per hour) and sucks, but very effective. Once per week for maybe a month should really help work all the trigger points out.
or you could go to a fysiotherapist who knows how to do dry needling. the use acupuncture needles to release the muscle. they would use a quick motion of the needle to reach the deeper tissue. with accupucture they will let the needles stay in a while. dry needling is just a quick sting with the needle in order to get a twitch response to release the tension. just look for dry needling online to get a better picture of what it is. It will help to get ridd of the triggerpoint. but triggerpoints can come back if the you do not adress the isseu that is causing te triggerpoint to form in the first place. hope this helps.
Hey, please get your TM joint checked at your good local dentist( oral & maxillofacial surgeon). Generally migraines are episodic but TMJ pains are present 24*7 and are similar as migraine. Happened to me, I thought it was migraine but found out it's the TM JOINT problem.
I get them because my leavator is completely sore on my left and right it gives me shoulder pains on both sides and causes cognitive migranes they will come on within seconds and it hurts to cough and sneeze
@@austinwells2654 I have the same thing. When I mess w these triggers much I stir up those headaches. Have you found a solution? I started working all my trapezius and levator triggers.
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The mastoid process is a bony projection of the temporal bone on the base of the skull posteriorly. Levator Scapulae attaches to transverse process of the first four Cervical vertebrae travels down to the superior angle and medial border of the scapula. This would clearly make the LS inferior. For more information please visit our website nielasher.com/blogs/video-blog
I have no pain in my neck but, levator scapulae on my right side is bigger like sweeling and i feel little bit of stiffness. When I turn my head to the left (till i touch my sholder with head) I can fell levator scapulae clearly under my fingers on my right side of neck. It has past almost 20 days and its still same situation. Should I worry and what to do, because I dont fell pain or anything. Thank you...
Have u feel numbness on your right or left arm aside from swelling Lavitor Scapulae? If you those symptoms.. I think you need to consult to a orthopedic doctor or physiotherapist...
How was it discovered/proved that those “trigger points” are exactly where you say they are, and that they refer pain exactly where you say they do? How is it possible to prove (or was proved already) that levator trigger IS the levator trigger and that it refers pain locally? And the trap trigger is indeed located within the trap and not levator, and that it’s exactly that trap trigger point refers pain upwards. Why levator trigger cannot refer pain upwards? And why do I myself never feel any referred pain anywhere when I’m having massages? It’s all so very confusing. Also on clients - not everybody have these triggers and referred pain.
Its not a one size fits all, its just common triggers points and their referral patterns. These trigger points and refferal patterns were documented over the course of 20 years of study and research by Dr. Travell.
