From Neck Pain to Shoulder Pain: Unraveling the Links Between the Two

Does stretching work when a muscle is over-recruited?    Not if you don't change the movement pattern.    This is an excellent follow-up to episode #162, showing how you clinically reason through another weightlifting injury.    Join Susan and Erica as they discuss a patient who sustained a shoulder/neck injury during a "basic" tricep extension exercise.    The main takeaways are twofold: You must assess the connections between the 2 drivers and treating one region alone will not improve this patient's symptoms.    Why?    Because if you look at his mechanism of injury plus his old movement history as a rower, you will understand that these connections exist and why one region was more dominant, depending if it was OKC or CKC.    Enjoy!   A glance at this episode: [3:01] Physical therapy for a hip injury [6:29] Looking at the head and neck area [12:58] Lumbar spine rotation and compression fracture [15:58] Understanding the movement pattern [19:50] Treating both areas of the body [26:20] Sensory input to the joints [32:23] The best way to recruit deep muscles   Related links: Tough To Treat Website Erica's Course: Decoding the Complex Patient Susan's Pelvic Health Education Subscription Access the Transcript