Your hand tingles at four in the morning. Your elbow stings the moment you lift a bag. You rub the spot, wear a brace, rest it for a week, and it all comes back. That is because the place that hurts is usually not the place where the trouble started. The nerves that run your arm leave the neck, pass between the scalene muscles, travel under the collarbone and beneath the pectoralis minor, then continue through the armpit, the upper arm and the elbow to the fingertips.
Along that road are six places where the space narrows. When a muscle loses its normal length, the passage tightens, and the nerve traveling through it is compressed. So numb fingers can begin at the side of the neck, and a painful elbow can begin at the shoulder. This book follows that road instead of chasing symptoms. Why the arm is differentBoth arms sit in front of the body, so your opposite hand reaches nearly every muscle in this book.
No equipment is needed. What matters is not pressing harder but working in the right order, from the neck downward. Who this is forAnyone whose hand tingles at night, whose elbow keeps hurting after every treatment, who was told the neck imaging looks fine while the arm still tingles, or who works long hours at a keyboard, a steering wheel, a chair or a kitchen counter. Written by a muscle care specialist with more than twenty years of hands-on practice, and illustrated throughout.
Your hand tingles at four in the morning. Your elbow stings the moment you lift a bag. You rub the spot, wear a brace, rest it for a week, and it all comes back. That is because the place that hurts is usually not the place where the trouble started. The nerves that run your arm leave the neck, pass between the scalene muscles, travel under the collarbone and beneath the pectoralis minor, then continue through the armpit, the upper arm and the elbow to the fingertips.
Along that road are six places where the space narrows. When a muscle loses its normal length, the passage tightens, and the nerve traveling through it is compressed. So numb fingers can begin at the side of the neck, and a painful elbow can begin at the shoulder. This book follows that road instead of chasing symptoms. Why the arm is differentBoth arms sit in front of the body, so your opposite hand reaches nearly every muscle in this book.
No equipment is needed. What matters is not pressing harder but working in the right order, from the neck downward. Who this is forAnyone whose hand tingles at night, whose elbow keeps hurting after every treatment, who was told the neck imaging looks fine while the arm still tingles, or who works long hours at a keyboard, a steering wheel, a chair or a kitchen counter. Written by a muscle care specialist with more than twenty years of hands-on practice, and illustrated throughout.