Neck shoulder pain causes: upper trapezius treatment massage and exercises

Discover the most innovative workouts on demand (7 day free trial) , neckpain, shoulderpain, uppertrapeziustreatment, uppertrapeziusmassage, uppertrapexercises upper trap starts from the bottom of skull and ends at the top of scapula so this will rotate scapula upwards like this which is very important for shoulder movements but more important function of this muscle is to fight against gravity your arm weighs about 5 of your body weight if your are 70kg, your arm weighs 3. 5kg it means your upper trap has to hold 3. 5kg against gravity all day long if it can t, your arm goes down plus if you have forward head posture, upper trap has to stretch out more and if you sit down too much, there is a high chance you are not using your trap as much as you should I mean you wouldn t use upper trap through its whole range (lifting arm above head) if you don t of course the muscle gets weak if weak muscle has to hold arm all the time it will