The muscle hurting all of our shoulders and necks

The pec minor is a muscle that gets a lot of attention from physical therapists. It’s a muscle that connects your scapula also known as your shoulder blade to the front of your rib cage around your chest area. It’s famous for tipping your scapula forward. And often times due our modern lifestyle. This gets too stiff because we’re always in that position.  If you have a stiff pec minor this can cause a whole host of issues.  From putting pressure on your neck, to making it hard to raise your arm, to compressing your nerve. Also, it just makes your posture look worse

However, If we loosen the pec minor we can see that we get way more range of motion in the shoulder, take pressure of the neck, and free up tension in the nerves going to our hand.

The first thing I like to do is stretch this muscle, by placing my hand against the door and stepping forward while rolling my shoulder blades back. After that, I like to strengthen my muscles to keep my posture in a good position, so that muscle stays nice and supple moving forward.