Guides to knots in the trapezius, rhomboids, levator scapulae and the muscles around the shoulder blade, including which one is behind your symptoms and how to release it.
You went to bed fine. You woke up unable to turn your head, with a hot, tight band running from your neck into your shoulder. Somewhere in seven hours of lying still, something went wrong. The usual explanation is that…
Yes — tight, tender spots in the upper trapezius and the small muscles at the base of the skull can produce genuine head pain, and the mechanism behind it is well understood. But two things are usually left out of…
There is a specific frustration to a knot under your shoulder blade. You can feel exactly where it is. You can almost get a thumb on it. And then your arm runs out of angle, your wrist gives up before…