hello miss launch nerds today i want to show you some techniques on how to
treat the brachioradialis it originates at the distal lateral side of the humerus
and then it inserts at the styloid process of the radius so does the name brachioradialis
this is the belly of the muscle the origin and the insertion so one of the things that you want to do
is treat it first warm it up what i like to do is some skin rolling you know all
i'm doing is just doing some skin rolling across the belly of the muscle right here
and i'm going to stand up and show you so if i'm out of the picture don't mind me but you want to
go ahead dry work always goes first so you want to go ahead and just do some skin rolling across
across the belly of the muscle another thing that you can do is right at the distal end
the tendon begins like approximate right here you might want to do some cross fiber friction on the
tendon you can feel it it'll pop underneath your fingers here so you want to take it all the way to
the styloid process of the radius and just do some fiber friction right across the the tendon another
one that you might want to do is like take cup your hand like you're saying hello and just lift
lift and separate the fibers from the bone in the on the belly of the muscle the muscle excuse me
so you just want to lift and separate lift and separate lift and separate this uh muscle
flexes the elbow it flexes the arm and it also uh helps with supination so i'm going to stand
up now so you want to kind of shorten or relax the the muscle so you could do some gliding
just some straight up oh by now i need some oil i didn't put any oil
so after you do your dry work you do some oil
you can do some palm over palm effleurage
there's definitely a trigger point like approximately right here
so you might want to hold it if you find a trigger point hold it for
you know follow the protocols of counting from one through you know uh you know
20 approximately or you can also do a piggyback where you put one finger over the other and hold
the trigger point now this is done at the end once you have already you know warmed up the muscle
you can find that trigger point and treat it another one that you can do is that you can even
hold it like you're gonna shake hands and just go back and forth back and forth and do some ringing
across the brachioradialis remember that the brachioradialis separates the extensors from
the flexors flexors is where there's no hair and extensors is where there's hair and this muscle is
right here in the in between so this is the one that separates posterior from anterior this is
the anterior where the flexors are posterior so another one that you can do is if you hold
by the wrist and just kind of grasp down do one inch strips with your thumbs guiding down
this really separates right here on the radius that brachioradialis right there
or you could do one hand at a time also and when you flex the elbow here it kind
of relaxes the muscle a little bit more so it's very important for you to you know the more you
flex it the more the muscle relaxes so and you can also treat that trigger point there again
okay that was it until the next time