{"id":4274,"date":"2022-04-12T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:10:54","slug":"trapezius-muscle-pain-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/trapezius-muscle-pain-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapezius muscle pain relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had this so bad one year for about 4 months I was almost in tears and became depressed.  It all started when I was polishing stainless steel boat railings with sandpaper and steel wool using downward pressure with arms doing and up down motion for hours a day. The thing that broke the pain was physical therapy via hot towels, human deep massage and electrical muscle stimulation (via machine once or twice a week for 15 minutes) for about 6 weeks.  However, by the end of the first session the excruciating pain was greatly reduced.  On the second round a day later I left with virtually no pain. My symptom was I was walking with one shoulder down ( or one up ?) observed by friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Get Trapezius Muscle Pain Relief (Stretches, Massages, And Exercises)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUXX1rBDcgQ?start=723&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the common movement patterns or daily habits that can contribute to trapezius pain (when all combined):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Typing for long periods of time (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3985383\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2<\/a>). Especially if the desk height makes you elevate your shoulder to reach the keyboard. Check my video tutorial here on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachsofiafitness.com\/how-to-sit-to-reduce-lower-back-and-neck-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>how to sit properly to avoid muscular pain<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li><li>Shrugging one shoulder up to hold the phone between the shoulder and the ear.<\/li><li><strong>Carrying a backpack or bag on one side.<\/strong><\/li><li>Repetitive movements like playing the guitar can tighten the elevated arm side.<\/li><li><strong>Sitting hunched over<\/strong><\/li><li>Pulling the head forward to read small text on the desktop monitor for hours each day (this promoted forward head posture which triggers upper back pain).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this so bad one year for about 4 months I was almost in tears and became depressed. It all started when I was polishing stainless steel boat railings with sandpaper and steel wool using downward pressure with arms doing and up down motion for hours a day. The thing that broke the pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}