Name: Erector Spinae Vibration Release
Uploaded: 2023-04-23T07:03:38.000Z
Duration: 8 min 48 s
Description: Learn how to reduce muscle over-activity, trigger point sensitivity, and improve mobility by targeting the erector spinae and multifidus with this massage gun technique. Step-by-step guidance on proper positioning, safety around bony landmarks, and trigger point release for the lumbar spine.

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Learn how to reduce muscle over-activity, trigger point sensitivity, and improve mobility by targeting the erector spinae and multifidus with this massage gun technique. Step-by-step guidance on proper positioning, safety around bony landmarks, and trigger point release for the lumbar spine.

Introduction to Percussive Release Technique

Initial Assessment and Application of Vibration Release

Identifying Trigger Points and Muscle Density

Switching Techniques: From Larger to Smaller Surface Areas

Detailed Technique and User Experience

Post-Surgery Precautions and Closing Thoughts

Erector Spinae Vibration Release

This is Brenda. The Brooke Bush Institute in this video. We're going to do percussive or vibration release for the erector spinae. I'm going to have my friend Mike come out. He's gonna help me demonstrate this technique. Now. Remember we're not just doing this because Mike loves to have vibration release done to him. We're gonna do this with the idea of getting some sort of outcome. So for example, maybe Mike has an anterior pelvic tilt we know with an anterior public tilt the erector spinae are short and overactive. So we'll try release now, we're gonna start in a slightly higher setting as I've mentioned in other videos. It's a little counterintuitive. We start on a higher settings more superficially with larger surface area pieces like this flat round piece. I like or the foam piece now I'm going to go ahead and put this on setting 2 there is a setting 3 but probably not necessary to start with especially with these thinner muscles up here in the erector spinae like you're right over the ribs. So we don't need to we don't need to pound mics ribs right into the table. That's that's not necessary. But I'm just gonna go ahead and start just lateral to a spinous process. I'm going to use my thumb to kind of outline where his spinous process is and I'm just going to kind of mow the lawn as the analogy analogy I give. noting any increase in in like pushback any increase in density any place might lets me know that. It's a little bit more tender there. I want I want to make note of that. But we're gonna start off just going over all of the tissue and you guys can see here. I'm starting on the the really thick lumbar Erectors kind of mowing back and forth, and he definitely has Some trigger points and some tissue density up here. Because Mike recently had lumbar spine surgeons or surgery. By recently note, I mean most about a year ago six months ago. So six months ago, he's been cleared by his position make sure if somebody has had surgery on their lumbar spine. You've been cleared by their physician before you start doing stuff like this. You want to make sure? Any modifications to the Bone any modifications to tissue have totally healed up. But other than that, we should be safe. So he does have some some density here and now you guys can see I'm working my way up. the tissue here nice and slow Just trying to see if there's any other places of increase tissue density. I feel a little bit in here. You guys notice. I'm not pushing the tool down into his back. I'm just using the weight of the tool. How's that feeling like? Any place that feels more tender? a couple of places In there a little bit. and so he has a little bit and kind of his mid thoracic spine very common little bit of increased tissue. Density. This is thoracolumbar Junction. Okay, so that's where your lumbar spine and Thoracic spine meat and then like I said around where he had that surgery. You know that it kind of makes sense that those muscles would freak out just a little bit maybe develop some trigger points and response to. In response to some of the the trauma in that area. Have to remember. Scalpel or a stab wound body doesn't know the difference. So post-surgery. There's always going to be a little bit of a little bit of stuff around the surgical area that has to be Addressed and then of course as you get down here towards the bottom of the lumbar spine guys, make sure you are keeping track of where the posterior iliac crest is. Where those spinous process are because if you catch the the PSIs the posterior superiorly explain. It hurts it definitely hurts. Now once I've gone over all this tissue and maybe I'd go over both sides. Then I'm going to go ahead. And I'm gonna take off this piece. We're gonna go smaller surface area. We're gonna go lower setting so that the frequency doesn't pop me out and I can get a little deeper. In those areas, so we'll start here. Once again, I'm going to use my thumb to border those spinous process. And then we know there's a Little Tenderness in there. How's that feel Mike? Good deal. So it's the Hurt So Good sort of feeling right like It hurts a little bit. It's a little tender in there as release techniques are but it feels like if I keep doing it, it's going to get better. Now if you have somebody who Feels like it hurts and it's only gonna get worse. That would be a good sign to move on. And you'll notice here. I'm not really using that grazing kind of mowing the lawn pattern now. I'm really kind of very gently guiding the hypervolt here through the tissue in a very small area trying to to feel it release underneath the tool. So that's his that's his lumbar Erectors there. We might be catching some multifidi in there too guys. I don't want to you guys to think that somehow I'm differentiating between erector spinae maltifinay. It's his lumbar Erectors. I was after there and then we had the Thoracolumbar Junction area, so right in here note as I get close to the rib cage. I need to be careful how hard I press because you'll you'll get bounced right back from the ribs and it won't feel good to Mike. So he has a little bit of tissue density here. I said I'm just letting all the tissue release underneath the tool. I'm moving through nice and slow. And then of course last he had some in his mid thoracic spine. Which everybody knows this is this is one of those areas especially for all of us who get stuck behind a desk. I can tell you I'm definitely feeling it more as as The brookbush Institute has grown and I spend more time behind a desk. and desk work definitely gives you some upper body postural stuff. that you got to work through and I would love to have somebody doing this to me on a daily basis. No doubt. Unfortunately with the hyper-volt it is kind of hard to. Hypervolt your own thoracic spine. slowly guide this through the tissue So just a quick recap. I was on a higher setting level 2 right with a larger surface area piece and I kind of went through all of the Erectors right? Remember your your iliocostalis using kind of comes out a little bit right really really gets a bit lateral to that thoracic spine. Once I went all the way through that and I kept mental note of where my tissue density was our tissue an increase in tissue density was I used the smaller bullet piece and I went back and just gently guy guided the the tool through those tissues as they kind of released underneath the tool and I think you guys will feel that and then of course if somebody's had surgery Make sure you're not doing this in the acute phase. I don't think surgeons are really going to know much about this right off the bat. You know, this is a fairly new device fairly new technology. You want to probably err on the side of conservative? You know, like I said, Mike is six months. We can be fairly certain that anything the surgeon did has healed up pretty good at this point his scar looks good, you know, he's been released for almost all physical activity at this point. Now we can use this to kind of clean up the tissues. You know six months post if you guys had any questions on this tool, please leave them in the comments box below. I hope you guys really enjoy this.

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Vibration Release Techniques: Upper Body

Pre-exercise local vibration reduces functional signs and chemical markers of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and may improve performance in subsequent frequent workouts.

Local vibration is effective for reducing acute muscle pain (and can be added to a home program via the devices like the Hypervolt by Hyperice® or similar devices).

Local vibration alone may be sufficient to increase strength in deconditioned muscles/individuals.

Current research implies that adding vibration to self-administered release techniques (SMR) (e.g. foam rolling) enhances benefits for DOMS, pain pressure sensitivity, and increasing proprioception. Further research is needed to refine protocols and determine whether adding vibration to SMR enhances benefits for increasing range of motion and improving power performance when used as a warm-up.

Protocol for Using Percussion Massage Device

Start with a higher setting and superficially (with gentle pressure) trace the entire surface of the muscle.

Setting 3 is likely appropriate for the lower body.

Take a mental note of dense or sensitive points. Manual therapists may use the opposite hand to palpate for taut bands and nodules (trigger points).

Stay away from areas where the bone is superficial. Using percussion massage devices over bone may be uncomfortable, painful, and/or cause bruising. Placing a finger or thumb over bony protuberances will prevent accidental contact.

Using a piece with a smaller surface area and lower setting (setting 1), return to the dense/sensitive points using deeper compression.

It may be helpful to add tension or slack by shortening or lengthening the target tissue

The Brookbush Institute recommends 30 seconds to 2 minutes per muscle group, and 5 minutes as an upper limit even in the case of multiple trigger points.

Child's pose also works well if the patient/client can comfortably maintain the position.

 (Block with a thumb or finger when approaching these areas)

 are superficial muscles on either side of the spine. Ask your patient/client to adjust their clothing to reveal the lumbar region of their back. (With a little practice this technique may be performed through clothing.) Identify the "valley" created at the spinous processes of the lumbar spine. The valley is created by the layers of fascia and skin being tightly bound together to the tips of the spinous process. The "hills" or "columns" of tissue are created by the mass of the 

 filling the fascial sheaths on either side of the spinous process like long, tube-shaped balloons.

 are segmentally innervated, trigger points may occur in any fascicle along their length. A very common 

 trigger point occurs adjacent to the L4/L5 segment, just medial the PSIS. Common 

 trigger points seem to develop adjacent to the mid-lumbar spine and thoracolumbar junction, perhaps where these fascicles originate on the thoracolumbar fascia.

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