My exercises aim to calm the stressed nerve, which presumably originates somewhere in the spine, runs behind the shoulder blades to the armpits and then extends through the arm to the tip of the thumb. Now that was probably completely anatomically incorrect, but hey, I'm not a biologist or a doctor. I'm not writing a textbook here, I'm just saying what I think, what I feel. I'm sure it's not all that wrong. Wink smiley.
So, let's go! Let's go. Go!
You put your flat left hand under my right shoulder. With your fingers you feel the central end of the right shoulder blade.
Reach under the shoulder blade with your fingers so that it is securely fixed in your hand.
Now pull the shoulder blade towards you. You have to use a bit of strength, it's not a pony farm here. When my head falls backwards, slightly overextended, it's the right pull.
With your fingers in my shoulder blade, you stay in this position for 2 - 3 minutes. It looks uncomfortable to painful for me, but it feels good.
As soon as you let go of my shoulder blade, all the muscles on the right side of my back, shoulder and neck suddenly relax. The only important thing is that the shoulder blade is pulled out evenly and held. As soon as you let go, wobble somehow or keep pulling, letting go, pulling again, etc., the relaxation of the muscles doesn't work. But that is exactly what we want to achieve, because then the stressed nerve can calm down.
Sorry for the unprofessional green arrow on the photo. Silvi, my physiotherapist, drew it on her mobile phone.
