Massage yourself with tennis ball
A tennis ball can work wonders for tense neck and shoulder muscles. Especially if you are alone at home and have to help yourself.
Anyone who has children knows the pain on their shoulders and neck. Too much ridden, the child is worn too long and already can be on my shoulder blade or on the neck muscles make a very hard painful point. Especially with painful points on the shoulder, I can not approach even with my hand. A tennis ball or alternatively a big ball will help. With the ball and my own weight, I can relax the tense muscles again. Not only tennis ball or rubber are suitable for such a massage but other balls of similar size can be used. The important thing is that the ball is hard enough. Soft foam balls offer no resistance for the massage.
Goodbye to pain
With the ball the so-called? Trigger points? (English: trigger = trigger) treated. The term comes from medicine and describes punctually painful muscle hardening. Trigger point therapy eliminates myofascial and muscular hardening. These hardenings are sensitive to pressure and cause the pain. Therapists treat the affected areas with targeted pressure? a technique that is imitated by a hard ball massage.
The shoulder and neck muscles can best be massaged while lying on the floor with a ball. But you can also lean against a wall. Place the ball between the painful area and the floor or wall and use the pressure of your own body weight to roll the tennis ball over the painful area. I focus on the painful point and massage only at this sensitive spot. Always roll the ball just short of or just behind the sensitive point. That gives a good pressure pain, but that is wanted. Then put a hot water bottle on the painful area. This promotes blood circulation at this point and soon the painful muscle tension is past. In addition, a stretching exercise helps. Hurts the right shoulder and neck muscles, then lay with the left side on the ground, drop the bent arm on the right side.
