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If you’re experiencing unexplained neck pain, shoulder pain, or upper back pain issues, it could be referred pain from your liver or gallbladder. Discover the connection between your gallbladder and shoulder pain. Find out if you’re dealing with referred pain and what to do about it.
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0:00.0 | your neck pain, your shoulder pain, or even like your pain in the back part of your scapula, it's probably not coming from your spine. How many people have tried massage, therapy, chiropractic with no results, including myself? In fact, I went into chiropractic college to try to fix my shoulder problem and it never worked. Why? Because I was treating the symptom. I did not understand the connection between this area of your body and the gallbladder. Don't worry. I'm going to show you a technique to determine if you have this problem or not. It'll probably take 30 seconds or less, but you really need to understand this connection and how it works. I've been in practice for 30 years, worked on over 40,000 people. 80% of tightness, spasm, pain in this whole area. This is where you might feel it, |
0:40.6 | but it's not coming from this area. Because the problem in health care in general is they don't |
0:45.3 | really look at these connections. Let me just first answer the question, why your gallbladder or liver |
0:50.3 | might be creating such problem for you. The gallbladder is the little sack that hangs underneath your rib cage, |
0:56.7 | and it has a connection that goes to your small intestine, |
0:59.6 | and also has another connection or a little tube that goes to the liver. |
1:03.9 | The liver makes something called bile, |
1:06.2 | that trickles down and then goes into the gallbladder |
1:08.7 | to make it really concentrated, so then when you're ready to eat, you can contract, push the bile into the small intestine and help you break down |
1:16.4 | fats. What's the relationship between bile and this pain in our right shoulder area right |
1:23.2 | through here? Bile is made out of cholesterol and bile salts. If your cholesterol is very, very high, |
1:28.9 | and your bile salts are very, very low, you get what's called gallstones. But there's a very |
1:34.6 | important stage before you gets to a gallstone. That is basically bile sludge, and it clogs all |
1:41.3 | the pipes up, and it creates a lot of pressure triggering the phrenic nerve that goes right up into this side right through in here referring the pain down through here. I'm not sure if you can really see this, but this is the frenic nerve. It goes to the diaphragm. Right above the diaphragm, we have something called the liver right through in here this is the liver underneath the liver you have |
2:00.9 | this thing called the gallbladder if you look up what the phrenic nerve does in wikipedia this |
2:05.8 | controls breathing because the diaphragm is a muscle that contracts and it pushes the lungs up and it |
2:11.7 | brings it down etc etc a lot of people also don't realize this nerve doesn't just control the diaphragm. It sends sensory signals back up to the neck through here. |
2:22.3 | So it's kind of a two-way flow. |
2:24.3 | And there's sources that show that this nerve also connects to the gallbladder, |
2:28.3 | but also the outer portion of the liver. |
2:31.3 | If there's any congestion or swelling or anything that will enlarge the gallbladder or liver, |
2:36.0 | causing what's called referred pain in this area, this problem is so common and it's so easy |
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