Today, what we’re going to be talking about is what we looked at last week’s talk about bicep tendonitis and having a different look. Last week, we spoke about the concept that we’re using too much muscle out in front of us because we might be in a different environment or we might just have the personality type that we have the muscle things all the time. We always have to do things in really, really hard ways and we just like using our muscle tissue a lot, which then destabilizes our body. What I’m going to do is show you how to clean up bicep tendonitis still in a different way but in the world of trigger point work.
What is a trigger point? Trigger point is a nodule in a muscle or in my world – I tell people – is inaccurate or inefficient muscle functionality. It’s a muscle tissue that’s not functioning properly. It’s just binding rather than helping movement. So, what happens in that world is we have to get that muscle tissue to learn how to open and expand, but the classic definition of a trigger point is a nodule in a muscle that refers someplace else. You guys heard me say in the past that you never want to go head on with an injury or pain because you will lose 100% of the time – I would say 98% at a time. Because your body is designed to protect it and it’s telling you that place is at fault for a reason, so it’s not going let you in very easily. If you do get in and it does make it better by going head on, all it did was trick you. It says, “All right. I don’t want you messing with this anymore, fine, I’ll stop giving you that pain response but it’s going to recycle again even worse,” which is making it harder for you to get in or it will take that issue and compensate someplace else and start ticking away on something else.
Where do we look for bicep tendonitis? This is where we want to start looking in the world of trigger point work. Ask yourself, what refers to the front part of the shoulder forcing the front part of the shoulder to work harder? It’s behind you, it’s actually infraspinatus. It’s all the rotator cup muscles that are all behind you. Everything that pulls the posterior capsule’s going to refer to the anterior capsule.
What you want to recognize that what’s happening here is all referral pain patterns. Referral pain patterns can be all over the arm from the shoulder almost down to he elbow When you’re doing the trigger point work that you need to do, you need to start focusing on the whole posterior side of the scapula as well as the posterior deltoid and some of your tricep, which then refers issues to the top part of the shoulder. You want to start gaining more and more awareness of what’s happening in that posterior girdle because that’s going to really refer to that area. That’s one of the many different areas that I want you to focus on for trigger point work. Now, let me tell you how to do it.
It’s actually relatively easy for you to do trigger point work on your posterior side of your body. All you need is your trigger point device of choice, whether it’d be a handball – which is my favorite. You can use a tennis ball. You can use a door knob. You can use a wall. You can use anything to get to these areas. What you want to do is put the ball against the wall and you lean against the wall itself, so the ball is against your scapula and all you have to do is wait and hold. This is the one little trick that I want to tell you guys. Infraspinatus in this area is notorious for taking its time to talk to you. So take your time in the world of pushing against the wall and waiting to see what happens. Do it with ease. Do it with grace. So your body says, “All right. This is a delicate area. I don’t have to protect against you.” It’s actually going to allow you in. That’s going to be very important for you to understand. Take your time with this. Put the ball against the wall. Lean against the wall, and it’ll start to talk to itself.
If you need more help, I have the complete injury prevention program to your liking. All you have to do is go do it and purchase it and it’s all yours, and it’ll show you everything in the world of trigger point work as well as foam rolling and stretching. So take a look at that but my caveat] is take your time with this, guys. It’s really, really slow. Then you’ll start noticing all the stuff that refers on the front part of the shoulder. And that’s how you inadvertently start to take down the concept of bicep tendonitis and no longer will you need to muscle things all the way out here because you’ll start having that range of motion that’s forcing your body to move with you.
If you know somebody that has bicep tendonitis, tell him to look at the first article and video as well as this one. Guys, I love the questions I’m getting. I’ll see you on the next one. Bye.