21: My Aching (Upper) Back: Thoracic Spine Pain

<p>Whitney and Til discuss a very common (but poorly researched) complaint: upper thoracic spine pain, and what to do about it. </p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, </p> <ol><li style="font-weight:400;">Does posture drive upper back pain? Does psychology? </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Breaking the Upper-Cross-Syndrome rules (and what “PhD” doesn’t really stand for). </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The Over-the-Edge technique for upper back pain. </li> </ol><p>Get the full transcript and handout at <a href='https://advanced-trainings.com/thinking-practitioner-podcast/'>Til</a> or <a href='https://www.academyofclinicalmassage.com/the_thinking_practitioner_ep19/'>Whitney's</a> sites! </p> <p>Resources discussed in this episode: </p> <ul><li><a href='https://advanced-trainings.com/ttp-021-handout/'>Free Episode Handout</a> </li> <li><a href='https://bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2474-10-77'>Thoracic spine pain in the general population: Prevalence, incidence and associated factors in children,  adolescents and adults. A systematic review</a>. (Briggs et al 2009) </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Whitney Lowe’s site: <a href='https://academyofclinicalmassage.com'>AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com</a> </li> <li>Til Luchau’s site: <a href='http://advanced-trainings.com/'>Advanced-Trainings.com</a> </li> </ul> <p>Sponsor Offers: </p> <ul><li>Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on <a href='https://booksofdiscovery.com/'>booksofdiscovery.com</a>. </li> <li>ABMP: save $24 on new membership at <a href='https://www.abmp.com/thinking'>abmp.com/thinking</a>. </li> <li>Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at <a href='http://handspringpublishing.com/'>handspringpublishing.com</a>. </li> </ul> <p><a href='https://www.academyofclinicalmassage.com/why-study-with-whitney-lowe/'>About Whitney Lowe</a>  |  <a href='https://advanced-trainings.com/whoweare/'>About Til Luchau</a>  |  <a href='mailto:info@thethinkingpractitioner.com'>Emai