Archive for March 31st, 2010
Wonders of the Body
31 March 2010Have you ever massage a client who has a kind of bulge on their biceps brachii? I went to this CE class given by a Dr. Allen (Awesome) here in Vancouver, and he said that this happens when the bicep long head is out of the intertubercular groove. This groove helps to stabilize the tendon, poor posture rolls the tendon out of the groove (when the shoulders are medially rotated working on computers….) and creates the ball on the arm. Click, ding, the light goes on and it all makes scenes.
All you have to do is place the arm passively in anatomical position. Palpate with the other hand the pec minor origin on the ribs and slide at an angle toward the glenoid fossa and intertubercular groove. Once you get to this point, maintain your pressure (15-25%) and medially rotate the arm. You will feel the bicep tendon roll back into its groove. You can even do this on yourself. I personally can get my left tendon back into its groove, but the right is more challenging for me?? Must be the lack of strength?? I will keep practicing, because when they are in, I don’t round my shoulders medially, until I do something to kick it back out again. I took the class on Saturday and have used this technique on myself and many others, everyone’s tendons where out so far. Postural fixes pass them on.