End of Season Fixes: Part 2 - Shoulder and Thorax Care

 Winter doesn't mark the end of my season, rather. Just a switch to my winter tires and some warmer clothes

 Wasn't the thorax a dr Seuss book?

 Having broken one shoulder, then dislocating the other about a year ago, now being fairly ruined; I cannot stress enough the importance of exercises/stretches of them.
Take note people.
Thanks for the post!

 Hard to find physical therapist that understands anatomy in relation to mountain biking. You had me at "arm pump"
Thanks for sharing

 In Ireland,we have one season. It's called ride your bike season.sun,wind,rain etc that's just called the weather!! I do this type of yoga etc year round to keep me straight!

 Very good stuff Dee, thanks again. Funny I just got around to watching this now and my Lacrosse balls arrived today. Spent this evening working out about a year's worth of junk. Hurt so good. The first rib/upper trap corner roll just about brought tears to my eyes ????. As I reached my mid-40's with many years of year round riding, my body is telling me how important this is to do. ????

 @enduromtbtrainer nice vids, very usefull for me. Suffering several injuries from mtb and moto. Talked About iT with chiropractor/osteopat/mobilitycoach who is theacher at university. He told me That to remove knots/ triggerpoints you should teach your nervues system as Well. So instead of Rolling over them to massage them, witch feel good and give a short term relieve. You search knots by Rolling THE area and when you find one put pressure on te THE spot. You wait till pain dissapear,
Push little harder till you feel iT again, wait till dissapear. Then push again little harder and wait again. So you Brain learns thru information of nervues system to Replace information coming from the spot. I tried iT That way and iT looks like THE triggerpoints dissapear quicker. And stay away longer.
Thanks for first rib technique, works real good!!! And thanks to help me in quest for painless living without meds.

 @enduromtbtrainer - I haven't watched the video yet, waiting for it to download (in the country, Australia.....) but 3 months ago I got myself a grade 4 Ac (13mm of separation) injury and the surgeons haven't wanted to get in there and I am wondering if you have done a video on exercises specifically to help with this type of injury and to help get back on the bike. I have good arm movement, little pain now but I am unsure of hitting the trails again as the clavicle is so unstable. thanks,

 I discolated my shoulder in autmn 2014. Had a surgery in January 2015 because of a slap lesion. Got the biceps tendon screwed back into the shoulder. Then 3 month of physio and that was the time when i started strength training to improve my shoulder- and overall stability.
This summer i was a bit lazy concerning stretching and stuff like that and the biceps tendon felt always a bit painful over the whole season riding and racing. Then in mid summer i broke my collar bone on the same side for the second time. Was an easy fracture and i was back racing enduro 8 weeks after that but things just got tighten more and more up while i didn't really realized it.
Then your video and a training break of a bad concussion due to a bad road bike crash got me into a serious body service period .
I was destroying all trigger points that i could find in my upper back, especially around the scapula. The teres minor/major were very bad. I found something to release nearly every half an hour. After destroying the trigger points the shoulder felt really good, but it was much effort necessary to keep that, and when i got up in the morning my "bad" shoulder was always really stiff and made much noises while moving. Especially overhead movements.
Beside the trigger point destruction carnage i stretched the shoulder a lot.
So yesterday i was sitting in the train on my way back home after work after a week of body maintenance. I wasn't moving when there slipped something free in my biceps tendon. It was such a relief! My shoulder movement is now so much smoother and when freshly detriggered and makes nearly no noises and no jumping tendons and ligaments and it stays much longer in a good shape than before.
Thanks for this great instructions and for kicking my ass to take more care about my shoulder!
Cheers from Switzerland

 I see a massage therapist about once a month to loosen up the muscles, but this would be great for the in between sessions for sure, great information, thanks.

 Thanks dude, some great technique on massaging the lats, however I haven't got a leg press machine handy so the side of the kids cot done the trick. Peace.

 Once again some deadly stuff, that 1st rib business---yeeow! Bringing healin' power to the people. Thanks!

 where did you get the white ball? i've tried using lacrosse balls and it usually dose ok, just want to know where you go to buy the white ball. or where i could get one.

 I'll check this out, can't get my head around yoga !

 Luckily i can ride all year round. Winters arent too cold and it doesnt snow.

 video audio/video out of sync eww

 Foot out season started, and then skiing at some point.

 start climbing. that'll take care of it.

 Try Graston Technique (Gua Sha)

 Bro, get your armpit off my squat bar!!