Chest Pain Relief Exercise | Quick & Effective Stretching Routine

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Hey, guys, do you have a really stiff chest? Today we’re going to discuss chest pain relief exercises. Now, one thing that you may not be aware of is that chest pain is not always caused by issues with our hearts. Okay. Chest pain can be caused by changes or disturbances in our posture. It can be caused by stiff chest musculature. And so today is going to be focused on exercise movements and stretches that you can do at home to help relieve yourself of a painful chest. So let’s first go through two main movements that we really want to discuss. Right. So the first movement is flexion. Flexion makes everything tighter. It makes everything worse here. The other movement would be extension the opposite direction. So the first exercise that we’re going to discuss is pulling the shoulder blades back bringing the hands out by the sides so that then we’re in this position, we’re going to extend our neck over our mid-back. So we’re getting a nice mobilization or movement of the spine and neck, neck and mid-back from a flexed position into our extended position. So this is a movement based drill, a mobility drill to help with the extension component that we’re missing when we have a really tight chest.

The other one is if we’re going to extend through doing chest opening. So we bring the arms forward and then out at our sides pulling the shoulders together and back lengthening through. Alternatively, you could take the shoulders at our sides, see how my shoulders are back. And we press up into the ceiling. So shoulders back, we press up into the ceiling. So we’re extending and lengthening through our chest here. Now, obviously, I have a wall behind me. What we want to be able to do here is pin the arm against the wall like so, and then we lean into it. So with this movement, we are lengthening the chest forward. We call this the doorway stretch. Again we’re focusing on lengthening through our pectoralis muscle. This is the one that’s the stiffest and the involvement in chest pain. So we want to lengthen that tissue out. And then mobilizing with our flexion to extension based exercises to help encourage the movement of our sternum lengthen through the front. And then pushing our way back from that flexion to extension based movement. And this will only help you to get a deeper stretch through your pectoralis. When it’s ready to do so. So there you are, chest pain relief exercises for you to help mobilize and lengthen those really stiffen tissues. Hope you enjoy.