00:00It's a little too strenuous on the body so if you're someone that has heavy
00:04workouts or is an athlete that's getting going through a routine at school or
00:08through through whatever team that you work with see if there's anyone in your
00:13area that's skilled and proficient in dry kneeling because it's a great way of
00:17maintaining good mobility and good health.
00:22So I'm palpating over the upper thoracic spine T1, T2, T3. I'm going over the
00:28transverse processes and I'm feeling the paraspinal muscles where the rib comes
00:31in. I'm feeling for any irritation like she has here, any discomfort. When I
00:36palpate over this area she might say there's a little bit of discomfort in
00:39that spot. She gave a mmm, mmm, which is clinically a way of saying hey I've got a
00:45little touch in there.
00:52What keeps popping when you like? The levator scat muscle here yeah just rubbing
00:57over. There's a lot of tissue here. There's trap. There's a muscle here called
01:02your levator scap. You have spuneus capitis. You have your erector spinae group that
01:05are shooting up through this area. So in terms of structures and depth of tissue,
01:12there could be a lot.
01:17This is kind of annoying me. I'm going to turn this off. I'll turn that back on for you if
01:22you'd like me to.
01:23It's fine without it. Okay.
01:34So I'm just getting an assessment of where I want to work before we get started. I'm palpating muscles.
01:41I'm palpating the spine and tension in the joints as well. As chiropractors we're specifically trained
01:48to evaluate the spine for segmental dysfunction. So where there's joint irritation, where there's joint
01:54fixation, or where the spine isn't moving well. It's crucial. This is the supporting structure for
01:59your entire body. It allows every structure to move off of its support. It's crucial in that manner.
02:06It's also crucial that we maintain good mobility and we relieve ourselves of the tension so that
02:12things don't become a bigger problem down the line, right? So if she never takes care of this,
02:16she changes the way she moves, it builds on itself, it can cause discomfort and change the way she moves
02:21down lower as well. Okay, so let's get started. The muscles I'm going to work on. She's got some tension
02:31around the T4, T5 paraspinals and some of this erector spinae group here.
02:40So when I'm working in the thoracic spine, I stay really close to the spine. It's probably one of
02:45the areas where I spend a little bit more focus when I work on it, just because there's structures
02:52here that I want to avoid. My depth of penetration is also not as great as you'd say in the
02:59hip where I'd go down.
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