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Yeah I don't think DLs will help muscle tension lol but cheers.

Abs split during pregnancy then heal up after, that's par for the course, she's not too far off being healed up. In the meantime is just walking/jogging and doing light exercise to stay in shape.

The weird thing, when she does something like push ups her shoulder muscles get really tense and it'll give her a headache. Likewise if she runs her legs get mega tight.

I'm not quite sure what chemical reaction in the body causes muscle tightness but wondered if it was something that could be fixed by having more or less of something in the diet. As in, lots of people use glucosamine or fish oil for joint discomfort, is there a similar supplement/vitamin that could help alleviate muscle tension... besides some kind of sedative lol

EDIT: This has a few things in it for ideas.

http://www.flannerys.com.au/ask-a-naturopath/question/119

Edited by ActionDan

Have you/she tried deep tissue massage?

not "honey let me rub your shoulders"

more "ok try not to cry while I torture the muscles around your neck"

She might also have a habbit of shrugging her shoulders up causing the nerves around the neck to get pinched or just tighten when she does exercise..

as in she might not be able to control what muscle she tightens and have a habbit of just getting tight everywhere.

Suggest starting with a tennis ball or harder against her neck and upper back..

she can do it her self on the floor or against a wall and control where and how hard she wants it.

I know she's seen a few physios before and they all comment on how tight her back is, she also has a tilted pelvis.

I've given her a few rubs and I get told not to go too hard and I wouldn't consider myself strong nor her weak in the pain management department but obviously in the shoulders she gets quite tender.

I know she's tried the ball on her butt cheeks before to get in there for some pain she had and she's had a go on my foam roller but it can't really target the shoulders that well.

I might buy her some new firmer tennis balls or a softball or something and see if that helps.

Tennis ball placed around the shoulder blades up against a wall where she can use her legs to go higher or lower or left or right or harder softer..

it works great.

find a sore spot and and just lean on it harder and harder.

If all that fails, find a physio that does dry needling for instant pain free release.

I've had success with dry needling.

I see the ball/massage as being a bit of a treatment, but I was after some ideas on prevention/cure so to speak.

It's good to be able to get a massage or tennis ball in there, but it'd be even better to eliminate/treat the root cause.

it's not going to be something magical mate..

it will either be her posture or a habbit where she tenses things too much.

Maybe she sits with shoulders slightly shrugged or rolled forward and any additional activity by way of exercise causes the tightness to be extreme.

Start with posture.. it's free to adjust.

morning and night tennis ball lovin...

Haha that I know, was just wondering if there were others who had a similar issue and found that X supplement/vitamin/mineral helped a lot.

Fish oil helped my elbow quite a lot for example.

Edited by ActionDan

Dan,

I get shoulder and neck pain from exercise or when I'm very cold, caused from a car accident 10 years ago. This pain also induces migraines. I get migraines on a nightly basis every 8 weeks or so; when this starts to happen I receive trigger point therapy and deep tissue massage. This helps enormously. I can’t speak highly enough of trigger point. My shoulder pain also makes me susceptible to injury in this area, for example my levator scapulae injury I sustained a few weeks ago from increasing my weights; when this happens I book in for trigger point again and it normally heals the injury within a few days. I also consume magnesium daily which assists with joint/muscular pain.

fish and krill oils did nothing for me.

I went from 5 fish oil caps all the way up to 20 per day for months.

I then went for 2 tablespoons of actual fish oil.. look that up to see what that adds up to.

no joint benefit.

Just shiny forehead. lol

same for me. have also read numerous articles that back up that statement.

but my old man swears by fish oil for his knee pain.

might be a placebo who knows

yep I was feeling knee soreness the next day after squatting until I had dat dere fish oil. Same with elbows after arm / chest workouts.

more deep squats would have fixed you knee and elbow pain.....

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