How do you train clients with over-active upper traps (who initiate movements w a shoulder shrug)?

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Sara 0 June 16, 2011 0 Comments

Many of my clients have tight neck and shoulders because they hold tension in their shoulders and initiate most movements with their shoulders. Besides constantly telling them “shoulders back and down” and giving them neck stretches to do, how do we train their upper traps to relax?

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Try to look it the other way… why are the upper traps so tense. Some other muscle (portion) is not doing their job. To keep function and stability, the motor programs are establish overloading the traps. Look for muscles with the same function as the traps and try to test them. Look at Muscular Activation Techniques from Greg Rosckopf.

How do you train clients with over-active upper traps (who initiate movements w a shoulder shrug)?

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