Unlocking the Shoulder; Everything you need to know!

The most common client complaint we see is undoubtably rounded shoulders. How many clients have we worked on where upper traps and neck muscles are solid and tight? How many people do we see with curvature and poor posture?

Here we explore how to fix rounded shoulders for long-term change. We focus on causes and provide techniques that resolve, not just relieve. to fix rounded shoulders for long-term change. We focus on causes and provide techniques that resolve, not just relieve.

Our brand new “Unlocking the Shoulder” course gives massage therapists transformative techniques to release and soothe locked-long muscles, whilst also achieving the balance usually missed by unlocking locked-short and dominant muscles. This course is ground breaking because it gives you the skill set to effect long-lasting change to range of movement and posture designed specifically for this most common client complaint. Many therapists are relieving but not resolving rounded shoulders, let’s change that for good!

Our brand new one-day practical course teaches you how to unlock the muscle groups around the scapula and effect real change for your clients.

Ideal for Level 3 massage, aromatherapy or sports massage, chiropractors, physiotherapists, osteopaths and alike looking to correct posture and make long lasting change.

The course focuses on how we can rethink our work with clients presenting with rounded shoulders. How can we open up posture and improve mobility and range of movement. This work will reduce headaches, tight necks, shoulder blade pain, levator shoulder blade pain and thoracic outlet syndrome. It can all be achieved through our work with a shift in our focus to the scapula.

How to book your place on the course.

Take a look at the course overview, syllabus and course dates here.

Just take a moment to pull your shoulders backwards, squeeze your shoulder blades together and relax the shoulders down. Feel the instant opening of the chest and difference this makes to your breathing, to your posture and even to your mood. This is impactful and vital work in todays society.

What lies beneath the surface when a client presents with rounded or protracted shoulders? Visualising that the ideal posture here would be that your ear lobe sits in line with the acromion (top of the shoulder), which in turn sits in line above the greater trochanter (hip bone). When the shoulders are protracted the head is visibly forward and the shoulders have become rounded inwards and elevated.

• Range of movement issues such as not being able to wash hair or undo your bra
• Referred pain between the shoulder blades where a knot in the muscle presses against a nerve
• Headaches behind the eyes linked with trigger points in upper trap
• Respiratory restriction compounding complaints such as asthma due to reduced movement for upper ribs

There are 17 muscles that attach and hold the scapula in place. This course releases the ones that have locked-long and unlocks the ones that are locked-short and are dominating.

How many of our clients are all coming to us wanting relief and resolution to tight tense necks and shoulders?

Our "Unlocking" series of workshops are designed to bring the impactful change that the industry is crying out for. With this work any massage therapist can change the physical and emotional content held in poor posture and rounding of the shoulders. Regardless of whether you are a sports therapist, holistic massage therapist or aromatherapist.

This course goes hand in hand with our "Unlocking the Spine; Thoracic & Neck" course. When we understand the anatomy behind these client complaints and learn the techniques we can not only open up posture and bring the shoulders back into position but also correct the forward searching neck and dowagers hump.

View the details and book your space on Unlocking the Shoulders here.

View the details and book your space on Unlocking the Spine; Thoracic & Neck here.