Fuller Performance and Recovery

Tight traps that never go away?

The spinal accessory nerve helps control the trapezius muscle, and when the tissue surrounding this nerve becomes restricted, it can contribute to persistent tension, aching, and even burning throughout the upper shoulder and neck.

If you’ve been stretching your neck, cracking it, or rolling your shoulders over and over without lasting relief, the problem may be the tissue affecting the nerve.

Restoring movement where the restriction exists helps increase range of motion and decrease symptoms.

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

Allow me to introduce you to my cleaning crew.

Every day there’s something to do around here…and honestly, I love it. 💁🏻‍♀️

How I make it through a 9 hour hands-on day.

The Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien Grit Bar has an angled point and a beveled edge that feel amazing, especially on my flexors which get worked a ton between bodywork and the gym.

We learn to do long, slow strokes to feel the vibration of tissue and detect any junction adhesion. It my opinion, this method also burns less so it’s what I do most often on myself.

I stop after I start to see light petechiae or redness.

If you work with your hands, you need this!

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

This client is a life-long athlete and presented with a persistently hypertonic upper trap and soft tissue restriction at the right rotator cuff.

Upper cervical flexion at intake was at 52%.

We treated the occipitals, SCM, scalenes, pec minor, subscap, teres minor, and worked along the dorsal scapular nerve to promote physiological change in the area for better nerve glide and shoulder complex movement.

At test out, we had increased upper cervical flexion by 5 degrees.

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

I use Dolphin Neurostim to deliver concentrated DC microcurrent through acupuncture points and nerve pathways to reduce pain and promote physiological change to scar tissue and adhesion. This FDA-cleared devices works by restoring normal electrical activity within the tissue.

Here I’m treating distal point B40, or as I know it, the tibial nerve, which branches off the sciatic nerve as seen in the pictured nerve pathway. This client suffers from spinal stenosis and residual pain from related disc injuries and surgeries.

I combine this distal point with a variety of protocols for pain relief and cellular healing through the promotion of ATP production.

This has been a really powerful tool for my clients so far, and chances are, you’ll be seeing it in one of your sessions, too!

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

This client presented with a SLAP tear sustained in high school and has struggled with scapular winging on the right side since.

We went in a cleared up the serratus anterior and restored glide to the long thoracic nerve. Once a new range of motion is achieved, increasing strength can become possible as a means to correct the winging and help coax the scapula back into a more ideal position.

After his session he reported being able to feel his arm tracking differently with less pain and better control.

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

In 2023 my father had cubital tunnel surgery after suffering whiplash from a serious car accident. His symptoms pre-surgery included numbness from the elbow down the whole hand, and weakness when gripping and holding things.

Post-surgery, his symptoms never fully resolved. Shocker. 🤨

To my knowledge, not one provider ever considered that his problem may be coming from the C8/T1 nerve root. All they wanted to do was get him in there to chop up his cubital tunnel because that’s where his symptoms were.

Surgical interventions create scars, and scar tissue (collagen, essentially) is sticky. So they opened his cubital tunnel, prompted the body to create scar tissue, and now instead of the nerve being stuck in the tunnel, it’s stuck in the scar tissue.

Scars are a huge part of why you’re in pain! It DOES NOT matter how old they are. I have multiple clients right now with scars from surgeries that are over 50 years old and STILL creating issues to this day.

We did a little bit of Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and some scar release therapy with Dolphin Neurostim to start creating a physiological change at the ulnar nerve and the scar that was left behind from his failed surgery. Those videos are forthcoming.

Surgery has its place and is highly valuable - but don’t be fooled - your body keeps count of every time it’s injured and altered and compensates around those injuries.

Your other providers are not talking about this…so it might as well be me!

I love you, Dad. 🩵
pain

If you turn side to side and your low back feels tight, stuck, or like it just won’t go any farther, it might not be a stretching problem.

A lot of people assume tightness means they need more stretching, and common practitioners will just toss out, “Do more stretching!” as a prescription for pain relief from “tight” areas.

I worked a corporate event yesterday and heard the therapist working next to me offer this advice to every single person they worked on 🥴 Stretching isn’t bad - it just might not be what you need.

One thing I look atafter testing thoracic rotation is the multifidus and lumbar joint capsules. When these tissues are restricted, they can limit how the joints of the low back move.

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life