Your client will need homework that they can actually take home. Always check out the muscles near a tender area for others significant discomfort.

7) Finish with effleurage and petrissage while assessing the area for change. 6) Then have your client rotate there arm while still applying pressure, forward and then back. 3) Place one hand on their shoulder 4) Place your other hand with thumb pressure on the knot. 2) Palpate the area around the scapula searching for a knot. 5) While constantly checking in with clinet, hold from 30 seconds.ġ.) Have the client sit in a chair. 4) Push and lift the client’s scapula away from the spine. 3) Place their thumbs or base of their palm at the medial border of the scapula. 2) The therapist stands to the side of the client. The first and most effective way is a stretch. They commonly develop from day to day routines like long hours at a computer, or sometimes just sleeping wrong. There are numerous ways treat these sometimes unbearable and mostly annoying knots. Located between the shoulder blade and spine, the rhomboids are not easily discernible except along the medial border of the scapula.

They will cause problems for a wide range of people: hairdressers, servers, CPA’s, teachers, administrators, and students. The Rhomboids are a major source of upper back pain. Rhomboids create those ugly knots in my scapula.

Rhomboid stretch