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Originally Posted by xbeatax
Also yugo/cha/chiro crowd - I'm 5 days out from my meet and yesterday I pulled my neck/upper middle back (or so it seems) doing cable flies on a low weight. I'm panicking because it's hurting and I'm having difficulty rotating my head. What do i do? I tried rolling and using a lax ball on it. I have no idea if it will go away in a couple of days but I just don't wanna take my chances so close from a meet. Hit a chiro?
Yeah finding a manual therapist who has experience with helping something like that with ART is a great idea. As for things you can do on your own with LAX ball. These two Kstar vids cover *a lot* of area in terms of "neck/upper middle back":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=i463R5HGdVg is the best thing I've found to hit the "neck" (so far at least)
And the always classic "sticky scap" video (what I assume you're already doing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzozw2Aso3M
Make sure to dig the ball at the edge and "underneath" your shoulder blades by moving your arm across your body - it could be there is mangled soft tissue in there too.
What kind of rotation for your head is hard?
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Originally Posted by downtown