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Hi this is Dr. Simcha Shapiro here with Expert Village. Now we're going to be talking about
a technique called Strain/Counter Strain. Now remember the concept of the technique
is to take the muscle, and the area that hurts, and shorten the muscle. So the first thing
we do is we find a tender point. This is a patient who has been complaining of shoulder
pain. And that looks to be a tender point. So, was that tender? Okay. So what we're going
to do is, I'm going to keep my finger here, so that they know this is the same spot afterwards
and it feels miraculously better. And I'm going to put the patient in a position that's
going to shorten the area. And we're going to call that first pain; I want you to relax
your arm. We're going to call that first pain a 10 on a scale of zero to ten. With zero
being no pain and ten being the original pain. And I'm going to press. What would you say
it is now? Almost no pain. Great, that's just the answer we want. So I'm going to hold you
in this position for ninety seconds. Okay, great. Now, it?s important that you stay fully
relaxed when I bring you out of the position. So I want you to just relax your arm and let
me do all the work. There we go. How is it now? A 1 or 2, almost no pain. Great! That's
just the way it works. It?s just that easy. And you'll feel better.