How To Massage The Scapula Video

The scapula is an important bone and muscle group in massage. Get expert tips and advice on massage and other treatments in this video.

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Press area between spine and socket bone
Dig fingertips into the muscle
Press down on center of scapula

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Malu works for Retreat Massage Therapy as a massage therapist. She is well versed in techniques that are particularly helpful for athletes.

MALU LUJAN: Okay, so we are going to be massaging the scapula. There are a couple of ways that you can approach the scapula. And basically it is this great big bone on your shoulder back here. You cannot really see it right now but you will see it when she flips over. So I am putting my hands under her back, and my fingertips are pressing up between--in the muscle area between her spine and the scapular bone, and I am just putting pressure in there. I basically--her spine is right here. Her spine goes right here and her scapula--the edge of her scapula is right here. And what I did was I kind of dug my fingertips into that meaty area of the muscle. And because she was laying on my hands, gravity pushed her back into my fingertips, and that feels real good if you have tight shoulders and soreness in there. The other thing that feels really good, you can do this - which I was also doing when she was laying on her back but you can do it when she is laying on her stomach - is to get into the center of the scapula. Again, the scapula is about, like so. And we are going into that meaty area that covers the bone and pressing on that area. How is that pressure, Sam?

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