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