Nerve pain in the arm is a condition in which a person feels burning, numbness, tingling, or pain sensations in the hand, arm, or shoulder. Nerve pain in the arm results from nerves in the neck-shoulder-chest complex being compressed. The source of nerve compression is inflammation in the muscles of the upper body region. Nerves pass through or under the upper body muscles. Therefore, the solution is to elongate the upper body muscles back to normal length. If this sounds too easy to be true, the only caveat is that conventional stretching is not sufficient to solve arm nerve pain. A more comprehensive method of stretching, called Active Isolated Stretching, is capable of solving arm nerve pain because the method is more detailed.
Nerves in the arm run alongside muscles in the arm
Let’s follow the pathway of the nerves of the arm. Nerves lie underneath or pass through muscles of the body. Muscular inflammation or tightness can result from repetitive motion, poor posture, sports, accidents, or aging. These abnormalities in muscles are common. What is uncommon is finding a detailed method of stretching muscles so that they are thoroughly smoothed out. Deep tissue massage can be helpful, but the kneading motion of massage does not fully restore the muscles to their normal length. Furthermore, many muscles of the shoulder-arm complex are too difficult to elongate with massage methods. The bicep muscle of the arm is one of the most difficult muscles in the body to stretch. It cannot be elongated through massage. And the bicep is a critical muscle to repair in arm nerve pain cases.
Nerve pain in the arm involves rigid neck muscles
Nerve pain in the arm involves nerves originating in the neck and passing through the arm. Many of these nerves start at the C4, C5, C6, C7, C8 region of the cervical discs. These nerves are underneath the sternocleidomastoid and scalene muscles of the neck. They then pass through the shoulder-arm complex. At this juncture, the nerves pass underneath or through the muscles of the chest, shoulder, and arm muscles. Some of these muscles include pectoralis minor, deltoid, biceps, triceps, and corocobrachialis. The way to solve nerve pain in the arm is to follow the trail of muscles that the nerves pass underneath. Completely lengthen all the muscles that follow the pathway of the nerves of the arm. By elongating the muscles of the arm, shoulder, chest and neck, the source of pressure on the nerves is removed.
Sounds too simple to be true
This is a very very simple concept. The solution involves a highly efficient form of muscular stretching called Active Isolated Stretching. The reason why this simple solution to arm nerve pain has not been more widely accepted is because people are still misunderstanding that Active Isolated Stretching methods are superior to conventional stretching practices. If we employ Active Isolated Stretching methods to nerve pain, the result is that muscles following the pathway of the nerves of the arm will be completely lengthened. This action will remove nerve impingement. The source of arm nerve pain will be gone.
How do you know if this method will work for your arm nerve pain? Ask yourself if your neck is stiff? Do you have muscular pain in the neck or shoulders? Does your head lurch ahead of your shoulders, in a forward-head posture? Are you developing a small hump in the back of your neck? These are a few signs that muscular stiffness is causing nerve pain in your arm.
Causes of nerve pain in the arm
Commonly, people who experience arm nerve pain will work long hours at a computer with their head lurching forward to see the screen. Women with large breasts will have their necks pulled downwards by the weight of their breasts, causing muscular problems to develop around the neck and shoulders. Commonly people with nerve pain in the arm will also develop a hump in the back of the neck called kyphosis or dowager’s hump. Any activity that causes poor posture in the upper body can contribue to nerve pain in the arm. Gravity is another factor. The force of gravity pulls our body downwards. As people age, muscles get weaker and the downward pull of gravity becomes more pronounced. This action creates poor posture and a greater possibility of experiencing dysfunction in the upper body.
Nerve pain in the arms is a muscular shortness problem. For that reason, the best treatment will come from an expert on muscle lengthening. Active Isolated Stretching is the method that will be highly beneficial for people suffering from arm nerve pain. The solution involves isolating and lengthening numerous muscles of the upper body. AIS treatment first involves assisted stretching to restore posture to normal position, these corrections can be maintained by AIS self-stretching and AIS strength training. Because the process is so detailed, session length may last a few hours. Productive changes will usually be experienced after one or two sessions.
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Dear Janet Kafka,
There’s a shortage of good AIS practitioners. Not every city, state, or country has them. I don’t know of anyone personally in Dallas. As far as San Diego, I would be the closest practitioner to that region. And I am in Santa Monica.
I’ll be back to Southern California in mid April, 2012. There’s a chance that I’ll start working out of a Costa Mesa office a few times per month.
Best regards,
Anthony Ohm
Could you please refer me to an AIS specialist in either the Dallas or San DIego area?
Many thanks.
Hi Sheldon,
Active Isolated Stretching is still only practiced by a small group of therapists. The majority are in the United States. I am trying to develop contacts to teach seminars in Korea. And I would be willing to teach workshops in Japan too. I need about twenty students to make the workshop possible. Anyone would be allowed to attend the workshop training. The training would be of particular interest to athletic coaches and trainers, physical therapists, doctors, chiropractors, massage therapists, and acupuncturists.
Anthony Ohm
Hello, do know of any places I can go to in the Tokyo area? I love your video’s but not sure if any here are knowledgable when it come to your stretching techniques. Thank you for the advice.
Mr.Sheldon Eatmon