Let's talk about rhomboid pain on the scapula. On the right side also you have one on the left side.

We're primarily going to be talking about the one on the right side, either if there's pain or

tightness or soreness. You may think that you just need to lay on a tennis ball or get a massage

or do some type of stretching after size, but you may find that if you do that it comes right back

about an hour later. I used to have rhomboid pain for literally years and I had no idea what it

being a chiropractor, I thought everything was basically a bone out of place and you just

adjust it and the problem's gone. I wish it would have known what I know now back then because

the actual cause was referred from something else. Like when you step in a dog's tail, he barks

through his mouth, right? Are you going to mess with the mouth? No, you're going to take the

pressure off the tail. So a lot of people with muscular problems in one part of their body

don't realize that it can be referred from a completely different area. And so there's this one

nerve called the dorsal scapular nerve. It comes out of the fifth cervical vertebra and it connects

to the rhomboid as well as another muscle called the levator scapular muscle, which is

right here just beneath your trap. So that one nerve coming from C5 connects to this muscle

and your rhomboid. And if there's any pressure on that nerve, you can have discomfort in those

areas where it's just it's always irritating, it's always tight, it's always in a spasm.

But what I didn't know at the time I had this problem was there's another connection to those

group of nerves in this lower part of the neck called the freenic nerve. So the freenic nerve

goes from the diaphragm from your neck all the way down to the diaphragm in the front part here

on both sides. And when it connects to the neck, it connects to several nerves. And so if there's

a problem in the diaphragm area, that can send signals back up to your neck and cause a little

tension, causing a little bit of a rotation, an irritation to the nerve, and keep you with tightness

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