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I’m a licensed massage therapist trained in Neurosomatic Massage Therapy who is passionate about being able to help people improve their quality of life, feel better and remain active through massage therapy. Being physically active has always been important to me. However, as I got older I noticed I tended to get stiff more often, remain sore for longer and it took more time for me to recover after being active. At the recommendation of a friend, I tried Yoga. It not only helped my body feel better but also triggered my curiosity to learn more about how different bones and muscles work together to help us heal or create discomfort. When a Vital Shoulder Massager muscle recovery injury put me out of commission for several months, I started looking into alternative methods of healing in an attempt to feel better and avoid surgery. After working with several individuals and not seeing much progress, I was treated by a Neurosomatic Massage Therapist. The experience was intense but effective. I regained full use of my shoulder and was able to get back to my usual routine. I wanted to be able to help people the way this individual was able to help me! This ultimately led me to go to school for massage therapy at the School of Holistic Massage and Reflexology in Downers Grove, Illinois where I am currently an instructor of Anatomy and Kinesiology and also got specialty training at The Center for Neurosomatic Studies in Clearwater, Florida. I’m excited to use my knowledge and skills to help you.

I avoided adding Spot 14 to this series for many years, because it’s a bit tricky to find. But precision is not required: although there is one specific spot that’s especially good, nearly anywhere under the ridge of bone on the shoulder blade is worthwhile, and often a surprising key to pain and stiffness everywhere else in the shoulder, especially all the way around on the other side, facing forward. Spot 14 is the site of my best treatment success stories in a decade of professional massage. I tell the whole thing in another article.1 Here’s the short version: my wife’s uncle, tough as an old boot, was laid low by a toothache-like misery in the front of his shoulder, but after just a couple minutes of rubbing Spot 14 on the back of his shoulder, he was completely fixed … He spent that weekend swinging his arm around, chuckling, and saying, "Well, damn, ain’t that something! " He never had that problem again.

For most people, Spot 14 is a just pleasant surprise: a "secret" way to ease shoulder tension that almost no one has a clue about until they feel it, but after that it seems obvious. Learning about Spot 14 is a great way to get a reputation for magic hands. How do you find Perfect Spot No. 14? To qualify for "perfection," a satisfying spot for massage should be both easy to get to and worthwhile. It is easy to get to the neighbourhood where Spot 14 lives. It’s just hard to find the exact address, which is the most worthwhile. The neighbourhood is the triangular shoulder blade. Finding the infraspinatus muscle is basically as easy as touching the shoulder blade. That bone is mostly covered by the infraspinatus muscle, which is under (infra) the ridge (spine) of bone. The shoulder blade’s ridge of bone is roughly horizontal and spans the full width - it’s an easy bony feature to find.

This schematic shows how the fibres of the infraspinatus fill the space below the spine of the scapula, and converge on a point on the upper arm. When they contract, they spin the arm in its socket (arrow). The entire muscle really is worth massaging, more satisfying than many other muscles, "good" for massage. But the top edge is "better" for massage. And "best"? Perfect even? Spot 14 tends to be quite a small, specific patch of muscle at one end of that strip, closest to the middle of the back: the upper, inner "corner" of the shoulder blade, just under the ridge. There really is one spot here that is particularly, profoundly sensitive in many people, but you can be right beside it and no one is the wiser - it usually takes some fairly detailed fingertip and thumbtip exploration to "nail it." On the bright side, I think it’s a noteworthy spot in easily 90% of the population, so the search probably won’t be in vain.

And if you miss it? Luckily, the rest of the muscle rarely disappoints. What does Perfect Spot No. 14 feel like? More than any other perfect spot in this series, Spot 14 is obscure until you feel it. Spot 14 itself rarely aches or feels stiff, in my experience. Instead, people feel pain and tightness well lateral to Spot 14. Spot 14 lurks so far towards the inner edge of the shoulder blade that it almost doesn’t seem like a shoulder stiffness relief (view Bbarlock) spot, but that’s its secret: rub it firmly, and almost anyone will feel the sensation spread laterally and penetrate through and around the rest of the shoulder. Like most trigger points, Spot 14 will feel raw and burning if you are too hard on it, but it usually produces a sickly ache. Penetrating referral to the front of the shoulder can be surprisingly specific and isolated - almost as if the shoulder is being touched in two different places at once.