Massage Therapy That Melts Away Whiplash Pain Instantly! Neck Pain Relief Massage Techniques

this video is made possible by our loyal patreon supporters visit patreon.com psychetruth hello welcome today I'm going to be working on the lovely Juliet and we're going to be doing massage for whiplash this is a quicker video so it's just a few um techniques that you can use if you don't have a whole lot of time so I'm going to go ahead and Dive Right [Music] In um so anybody that has had whiplash like it's definitely like traumatic somewhat and it you know there's levels of it but you never want to like go in too hard too quick when you're working on someone that's had whiplash especially recently so sometimes um the first thing I'll do is just look at like the shoulders I'll look at how they're holding their head and if the shoulders are super rounded it's kind of a clue to me that um there's a lot of um just the shoulders are trying to protect this sem muscle so a really nice way that you can go about um someone that's just been been in a car accident and has had whiplash is working indirectly to help things move along so what I'll often do is um I'll start on the mastoid process and and I will just kind of gradually start introducing pressure so I just want you know my client to feel more soothed by my touch than anything in the beginning um but the main muscle that I focus on when I'm dealing with Whiplash is the semm the sternal cloid om mastoid and um there's just different ways to approach it so you just have to be a little careful of direct contact when you're working on someone that um was just in a car accident or has that recent trauma so I'm literally just doing little circles I'm um encouraging this muscle to just soften and um relax a little bit and often if it's my first session with someone after a car accident I won't work directly on the sem it depends on how much swelling there is and just the level of you know whiplash and um also working my way down into the occipital muscles and the suboccipitals so just all these muscles that can really hold tension encouraging them to relax and if there's a lot of swelling I um you know that's a contraindication to deep tissue so you can get a lot done without going super deep and deep tissue isn't always the answer I feel like a lot of people kind of think that but it really just depends I usually work a lot on the sub oipal muscles um if that you know if the sem is feeling swollen spend a little more time there [Music] and I'm just going to do um the same sequence on the right and left before I work directly on the a the sem so Julia doesn't really have she has very acute swelling in her SCM which is pretty normal so I am going to make direct contact [Music] and I'm also going to walk these shoulders out a little bit just to encourage the shoulders to to remind them that they don't have to protect that those neck muscles as [Music] much and I really like to take my time with this um especially the sub ocials takes time for them to really [Music] respond and honestly if someone um has more severe trauma in their sem muscles or one of them um you don't want to overwork that area and you don't want to spend too much time so if you have just kind of a handful of things that are really effective 10 minutes is often you know plenty of time get what you need to done and I'm going to go in with my oil I want to get a nice firm grip so I want to do some fasal work so I'm not using a whole ton of oil so just really encourage these shoulders to relax this is a really nice way to um the sem muscles are a lot less taut so if your client is experiencing a lot of pain on either the right or left just working with the head not turned is a really good idea to start or just turning it slightly cuz the more taut it is the more intense everything is going to feel and as your client you know heals and is ready for more you can start to focus in a little bit more this might look really simple but it's just a really nice way to help somebody um and the initial stages of whiplash I'm dealing with it and it is really important to work on the trapezius muscle as well it's a very self-protective muscle and get triggered and I'm starting to bring my stroke all the way into the subox Capital more and I'm working my way up and I'm going to just very slowly start to turn this head and can kind of access that main muscle that's affected by Whiplash at sem and just a really you know a confident touch but gentle to start and you're going to find usually find a lot of trigger points in the muscle belly so the muscle is going to be the thickest in the middle you can usually find some really nice trigger points there but you don't want to rush into that kind of work sometimes I'll just do some nice slow [Music] eage and I'm targeting different muscles on the way down and then on the way up so I have a really nice um it's just that upward stroke is perfect for targeting the sub oipal more and I'm going to go ahead and move to this opposite side another approach that you can take is to kind of do both sides and then reassess and then maybe your client depending on what they're dealing with might be ready for a little bit more on each side and the whole time just making sure that her head is supported with my opposite hand so that she feels nice and secure and if you um don't have offer enough support to that head the sem is going to be you know just kind of engaged in a way that's not really that great for getting worked on and I'm go ahead and just wrap up this side you might find that depending on the angle that the Whiplash occurred one side's likely going to feel a lot tighter so if somebody has um severe pain I would never attempt a stretch on the neck but if it's more acute then I really like to just give a little stretch the end and before we finish today I'd like to thank a few of our patrons I'd like to thank Brendan Garrison Omar and Beth Miller thank you all so much for your support and that is it for today guys thank you so much for 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