Supportive for prevention and pain relief
You can treat functional chest pain with targeted exercises. The aim is to release tightness to help your thoracic spine regain mobility. But that alone isn’t enough – that’s why, with the exercises below, we get down to the root cause of the pain in your chest. You can achieve your goal by working on your posture.
To help you succeed against chest pain, we recommend doing your training plan four to five times per week, keeping your movements clean and slow.
Important: Chest pain is not to be trifled with. In order to rule out organic causes, these must be clarified by a doctor.
Myofascial release techniques can help you release tightness in your chest area, which relaxes your chest muscles.
After doing myofascial self-massage, you can work on deep fascial adhesions using the BLACKROLL® TRIGGER TMX®. This targeted pressure relieves deep-lying tension in your chest muscles.
Mobilization exercises using BLACKROLL® products help you take the next step toward greater mobility. At the same time, they also help ease myofascial tension even more.
When you’ve worked to tackle the symptoms of your chest tightness, you should work on your posture. That’s because your chest pain probably started from poor posture or muscle imbalances. With the following exercises, you’ll therefore train the muscles that tend to get weaker.
A pulling feeling in your chest or pain in your ribcage (thorax) can be down to various causes.