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so this is a topic that i think i’m

pretty qualified in addressing simply

because i’ve been in practice for

30 years and i also trained over 2500

doctors in my methods and

this information is very

counter-intuitive it’s not taught in

schools and it is highly effective as

you’re about to find out so if you have

these muscle knots in the back of your

neck and your in your shoulders up here

or your mid-back

you’re going to like this video so what

are these knots well they’re little

balls of contracted muscle there’s so

many gurus out there and so many videos

that are talking about you just need to

massage the knot

do trigger point therapy um use

different massage devices to break up

these muscle knots and uh yeah it works

for a minute until it comes right back

now out of all the patients that i had

with muscle knots

i think i had the most problem with

muscle knots for years before i figured

this out so massaging these little knots

doing hot packs cold packs trigger point

therapy stretching the knots stimulating

the knots using electrostimulation

is honestly i think a big waste of time

so here’s what you need to know

muscles always work in pairs now there

are a lot of muscles that work together

but there are usually two major

pairs of muscle to create motion okay

you take a look at your arm you have the

bicep that contracts and the tricep that

extends and that creates motion now when

we’re talking about the back part of the

neck that extends the head back

and then the muscles on the opposing

side

bring the head forward right here now if

we’re talking about the upper

shoulder area right here you have

muscles that bring the shoulder up and

you have muscles that bring the shoulder

down

and when we’re talking about the

mid-back we have the muscles that bring

the shoulders backward and then we have

these muscles called the pecs that bring

the shoulders forward so the way you

need to look at this is that

all muscles have an opposing action

all muscles work in pairs and they are

electrically coordinated with nerves

okay so

anytime you stimulate one muscle

the electrical circuits on the opposite

muscle has an off switch so in order for

you to contract

the opposing muscle needs to relax and

so we can use that information so

instead of like massaging or doing

trigger point therapy on a contraction

why don’t we work on the opposite muscle

and guess what it works like magic so

anytime you have a muscle knot

what you want to do is you want to

figure out the opposing muscle or what’s

called the antagonistic muscle

and stretch that muscle and you will

find that the muscle that’s contracted

will melt like butter and a frying pan

all right so let’s start with the back

of the neck so you have these muscles

that are all tight and the name of these

muscles if you want to sound smart are

called splenius capitus and splenius

cervicus otherwise known as the muscles

in the back of your neck so anytime you

have tightness in the back part of the

neck you want to stretch the front part

of the neck now you can very simply just

do this

going back okay

probably stretch that maybe five six

seven times okay and then notice how

your neck feels but there’s another

muscle called the scalenes which is on

the front part of the neck right here

and to stretch that one you’re gonna so

you’re gonna rotate and tilt back like

this

and you do the other side

and you’re usually going to find one

side that’s a lot tighter and that’s the

area you’re going to work on and then

when you compare that to the back of

your neck you’re going to feel it’s

really really loose so in this video i

really want to just kind of teach you

the concepts um

as far as how many times to do it and

how long to do it that all depends on

how bad it is you know you can stretch

for maybe 10 to 30 seconds and you can

do that three times just to keep it

really simple now the next thing i want

to talk about is the knots in the upper

back this is really really common

it’s usually in the trapezius muscle or

a muscle right underneath it called a

levator

scapula muscle and both these muscles do

a very similar action of just raising

the shoulders like this right so if

you’re sitting behind a desk all day

doing this you can imagine those muscles

are going to be tight

so now the question is what muscle does

the opposite what muscle pulls the traps

downward well it just so happens both of

those muscles that bring the shoulders

up

are opposed

by the muscle called the latissimus

dorsi and this latissimus dorsi

attaches to the back of the humerus

right here back of the arm and then

comes down onto the rib cage and then

attaches to some other connective tissue

underneath the arm and so to stretch the

lat muscle there’s many different ways

um

you can hang from some

bar to stretch this muscle right here

if you don’t have a bar you can actually

take a simple chair and get on your

knees and bring your elbows

on the chair and you can basically

extend the arm up to the head and so

you’re stretching this this space

underneath your arm this distance right

here and you’re pulling the latissimus

dorsi

so it creates a really nice stretch so

if you have tightness in the upper

shoulders and you stretch the lat

just notice how loose that’s going to

feel and so instead of having someone

start massaging and just beating up this

muscle up here you stretch the opposing

muscle your lats honestly if i had a

choice between

doing the stretch on the chair or

hanging i like hanging because that

really can stretch the latissimus dorsi

and give you tremendous relief and not

just on the trap right here but also on

your shoulder now there’s another muscle

that i would recommend stretching it’s

called the latissimus dorsi these are

muscles on top of the rib cage that

attach to the back of your scapula and

the simple way to stretch it is to sit

in the chair sideways

and bring your arm over the back part of

the chair

and then take your upper torso and

stretch

in the opposite direction okay so you’re

stretching the upper torso in the

opposite direction and you’re going to

stretch your scalenes while you’re

sitting up nice and tall what that’s

going to do is going to create the

stretch that’s going to melt the

trapezius muscle as well as a muscle

underneath that so that’s a really good

stretch as well and you can stretch and

hold for 30 seconds and do that just

three times and you’ll see some amazing

results okay so now let’s just move to

the mid back

there are two sets of muscles called the

rhomboid muscles they bring your

shoulder bones which are your scapulas

backwards right through and here okay

and they bring them up too but they kind

of bring them back this way and so the

muscles that oppose that are your pec

muscles okay these muscles in the front

part and so a really good pec stretch

would be in a corner of your room where

you’re bringing your arms up and then

you’re pushing your chest

forward to stretch the pec muscles now

you can also do this in a door frame as

well but basically you just get into

stretch mode and you just stretch and

hold for 30 seconds and then do that

again three times and notice how your

rhomboids your mid back will feel really

really good all right so those are the

three areas of your body that have knots

and some stretches that you can do

however okay hopefully you made it this

far in this video because

eighty percent of all these knots

are really being referred

by your

digestion okay something in your

digestive tract

mostly the gallbladder

and many times it could be the little

tubes or ducts between the liver and the

gallbladder that are are filled with

sludge and that backs up to the liver

which creates

referral

tightness

in your rhomboid especially on the right

side

in your trap or your levator scapulae

muscle on the right side

can be on the left side too

or the neck muscle right through here so

if you are going to stretch

and you’re not feeling a lot of change

or relief

then you better put attention on the

digestive system so

let’s say right now you have some neck

tightness or upper trap or right

rhomboid pain this is what i want you to

do take your hands

and massage underneath your right rib

cage just off the center

just feel around there and feel for the

tightness and press in and hold to your

tolerance

for about 20 seconds okay so do that

right now

and then notice that that gives you some

relief now we know your problem is

coming from your digestive system which

means that there’s something you’re

eating that you probably shouldn’t be

eating and so for those people that are

new to what i recommend for eating i put

that link down below because that’s

going to ultimately correct this problem

but most the time it’s a gallbladder

problem

and

i’m not talking about stones i’m talking

about just

your bile is too thick it’s called bile

sludge and the best way to loosen that

up is to use a very high quality bile

salt

supplement and that will help loosen up

this sludge so it can drain out and give

you a lot of relief and of course the

bile salt that i recommend is called

gall bladder formula and i did put the

link down below because that formula has

a lot of things in it it has things for

the stomach it has things to thin the

bile it has bile salts it has enzymes

and so it’s a pretty complete product so

i just gave you a complete solution on

what to do for these muscle knots and i

think the next most important video is

to show you how to do this manual type

therapy on the gallbladder so i put it

up right here check it out

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