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What do my beautiful, intelligent, curious followers want my next thread like this to be about? Neck pain/forward head posture? Shoulder pain/shoulder impingement? Knee pain? Talk to me

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Sam Martin

@movebetterproj

· Oct 20, 2021

Instability-type back pain aka "I reached for something and my back went out/threw out/gave out/locked up/went into spasm": let's talk about it.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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i got a whole thing in my left shoulder personally. it started because of meditation so not sure how psychosomatic it is. not sure how to describe but tension, twitching muscles, stiffness when i move, numbness

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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the shoulder "wants" to curl inward but i've never found a position it's 100% satisfied by. i've been trying stretching in a bunch of directions which has helped but it hasn't gone away

Sam Martin

@movebetterproj

Oct 21, 2021

going to do a thread on this today, but this is the ticket for you, I think

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I'm starting to become convinced that a whole cluster of problems that I thought were separate were variations of "back not strong enough" - this sounds like one that I now label "rhomboids not strong enough" worth a shot exploring if nothing else helps!

Sam Martin

@movebetterproj

Oct 22, 2021

#1 incredible twitter handle #2 I am not trying to blow you up at all, but it's not rhomboids that are the issue, usually. Rhomboids downwardly rotate the scapula (think reaching behind you); it's middle and lower trap that do retraction/depression/upward rotation

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+1 on shoulder