Today’s show at Carpal Tunnel Radio was about those pesky muscles on your neck that cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
The same muscles also cause pain in the back and front of your upper body, your shoulders, the back and front of your upper arms, and those nasty knots in your back between your shoulder blade and spine.
The scalene muscles are located toward the front of your neck. There is a set of scalene muscles on each side. They are tucked away and hidden behind the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscles on each side. The SCM’s form a “V” from the bones just behind your ears to the notch of your throat.
Your scalenes are used to help you breathe. They lift your upper ribs.
If you have had asthma, severe allergies, or are an upper chest breather (rather than using your whole chest,) or if you have had a whiplash injury, you may have trigger points in your scalenes. Trigger points in these muscles will “fire” or trigger pain and symptoms into all of the areas we talked about at the start of this article.
It would be great if you could go to a knowledgeable massage therapist who knows how to treat these muscles. But, if you can’t, you can discover how to get rid of the trigger points in your neck by self-treating your own scalene muscles.
I created The Scalene Report to help you get rid of the trigger points in your scalene muscles so they cannot cause carpal tunnel symptoms, thoracic outlet symptoms, or muscle knots in your upper back any more.
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