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DR. CHRIS MANGO: Hi. This is Dr. Chris Mango, here in New York City. On behalf of Expert
Village, we're going to be taking a look at trigger points today. The next muscle we're
going to be taking a look at is the rhomboids. That's located between the shoulder blades.
This is another big one that causes pain on a lot of people because, as you all know,
we all sit at the desk too much and we all sit at the computer too much. When we sit
in those positions, we're leaning with our shoulders forward, and what happens is that
it puts way too much pressure on the muscles back there. So let's take a look at the muscle
and find out how to treat it. Rhomboids are located right here. Now it connects between
the middle part of the thoracic spine and the outside of the shoulder blade. Now, the
trigger points can be here and here. Now, when this muscle acts up, that's when you
feel that dull, deep pain in between the shoulder blades. This is a common thing that everybody
has. We're going to take a look at the trigger points and how to fix it. So now I'm going
to take a look at how to treat the rhomboid on the patient. The first thing we need to
do is find the muscle, and to find the muscle, we need to find the scapula. When the patient
is lying down, have her put her arm on her low back, and then now we can see it pops
up here. So now we come to the middle of the spine and we know that the muscle runs down
at this angle. So we come through here and we find the trigger points, which would be
here and here. The patient now can drop her arm down, and we just hold and press like
we did before. Let's move on to the next muscle.