JANMI Soft Tissue Therapy

JANMI Soft Tissue Therapy Soft Tissue Therapy by Paulius Jurasius

Train your serratus anterior — or your neck will keep doing your shoulder’s job.This quiet muscle hugs your shoulder bla...
04/02/2026

Train your serratus anterior — or your neck will keep doing your shoulder’s job.

This quiet muscle hugs your shoulder blade to your ribs. When it’s asleep: rounded shoulders, cranky traps, unstable overhead reach, and that annoying “tight but weak” feeling.

In JANMI Premium, I don’t only release tight tissues (the brakes). I reactivate sleeper muscles — especially serratus — so your posture can hold itself without forcing.

If your shoulders live in your ears, serratus is probably missing.

Most modern shoulder pain isn’t “weakness”. It’s small stabilisers doing too much work.Two usual suspects: infraspinatus...
04/02/2026

Most modern shoulder pain isn’t “weakness”. It’s small stabilisers doing too much work.

Two usual suspects: infraspinatus + teres minor (back-of-shoulder rotator cuff).
They don’t just “turn your arm out” — their real job is to keep the ball of the shoulder centred while you reach, lift, press, throw… and even while you sit at a desk pretending you’re relaxed.

Here’s the modern mismatch:

shoulders rolled forward all day (phone, laptop, steering wheel)
lots of pushing (bench, push-ups)
not enough smart pulling + external rotation
Result: these small muscles become your emergency brakes. Eventually they start complaining.

How it often feels:

pinchy or “blocked” shoulder when you lift the arm
pain that can show up in the front of the shoulder (yes, even when the problem is in the back)
deep ache around the back/outside shoulder
worse after desk work, gym, or sleeping on that side

The good news: when you restore scapula rhythm and calm the posterior cuff, shoulders often stop acting like dramatic teenagers.

If your pain is sharp, worsening, or you get numbness/weakness — get assessed. Otherwise: don’t ignore the quiet workers at the back of the joint.

Ever had your foot cramp like it’s trying to fold itself into origami at 2am?Here’s the boring truth (from a therapist w...
02/02/2026

Ever had your foot cramp like it’s trying to fold itself into origami at 2am?

Here’s the boring truth (from a therapist who actually touches these tissues daily): a cramp is usually not random — it’s your nervous system pressing “ON” in a muscle that’s been overloaded, held still too long, or forced into one angle.

Most common culprits:

Soleus + gastrocnemius (fatigued calf pump, less rhythm)

Deep toe flexors (big-toe and toe-gripping muscles working in silence)

Plantar fascia ↔ Achilles ↔ calf fascia (less glide = more irritability)

Modern life trains cramps perfectly: long sitting/standing/kneeling, stiff shoes, stressed nervous system, inconsistent movement… then we wonder why the foot protests.

Ever had this weird combo?Right shoulder won’t externally rotate (painful), right piriformis tight… but the left QL and ...
01/02/2026

Ever had this weird combo?
Right shoulder won’t externally rotate (painful), right piriformis tight… but the left QL and left rhomboid feel like they’re doing overtime.

That’s often not “four problems”. It’s one spiral — a cross-body tension strategy your nervous system uses to keep you upright in modern life (screens, sitting, asymmetry).

In today’s JANMI Journal I unpack how the Spiral Myofascial Line can lock the ribcage, scapula, pelvis and hip into a protective twist — and why restoring rotation changes everything.

If your body feels “twisted” rather than broken, you’ll recognise this.

Front-of-shoulder pain isn’t always a “shoulder problem”.In head-forward, shoulders-forward posture, the biceps tendon o...
31/01/2026

Front-of-shoulder pain isn’t always a “shoulder problem”.
In head-forward, shoulders-forward posture, the biceps tendon often becomes a stabiliser of last resort — and it gets irritated from simply holding the system together.
Sometimes the answer isn’t stretching harder… it’s restoring position, control, and calm.

That sharp “triceps” pain when you try to open the arm back or externally rotate the shoulder?Often it’s not the triceps...
30/01/2026

That sharp “triceps” pain when you try to open the arm back or externally rotate the shoulder?
Often it’s not the triceps at all — it’s your upper-body alignment, scapula timing, and nervous system shouting through the back of the arm.

Rounded shoulders + forward head = the perfect setup for radiating pain.
In JANMI, we don’t chase the loud tissue — we organise the system.

Plantaris: the calf’s little snitch.You sit all week. Then you “just” run, class, sprint for the bus… and suddenly there...
30/01/2026

Plantaris: the calf’s little snitch.

You sit all week. Then you “just” run, class, sprint for the bus… and suddenly there’s a sharp flick behind the knee or a weird stringy tightness in the calf.

That can be **plantaris** — tiny muscle, long tendon, big opinion.

In JANMI terms: not broken. Just your tissues asking for rhythm instead of surprise. Treat it with intelligence, not violence.

Pop + swelling/bruising + can’t push off? Get it checked.

If your neck and shoulders feel permanently “on,” you’re not alone.Most chronic cases I see aren’t one muscle — they’re ...
21/01/2026

If your neck and shoulders feel permanently “on,” you’re not alone.
Most chronic cases I see aren’t one muscle — they’re a modern-life pattern: screens, stress, shallow breathing, and shoulders living forward.

In sessions I focus on:
✅ myofascial release
✅ trigger points (upper traps / levator / pec minor / rotator cuff)
✅ scapula mechanics (often the hidden key)
✅ simple targeted exercises so the tension doesn’t rebound

Clinic: Marylebone, London. Message me if you want a plan.

Modern life is surprisingly good at switching off the glutes.Long sitting, small-step walking, stress bracing, and quad-...
15/01/2026

Modern life is surprisingly good at switching off the glutes.

Long sitting, small-step walking, stress bracing, and quad-dominant movement patterns often leave glute medius and glute maximus quietly asleep — even in people who train.

When glutes sleep, the body improvises:
TFL/IT band grips, hip flexors tighten, QL and low back brace, knees drift inward, feet overwork… and pain appears somewhere down the chain.

At JANMI Postural Pain Clinic, Marylebone, we treat this as a coordination problem:
release the overworking brakes (sports massage + trigger point + myofascial work), then wake the sleeping stabilisers with short, precise drills.

Not perfect posture. Better load sharing.

Warmly,
Paulius

Pelvic “misalignment” is rarely a bone problem.In my clinical work at JANMI Postural Pain Clinic, Marylebone, it’s usual...
13/01/2026

Pelvic “misalignment” is rarely a bone problem.
In my clinical work at JANMI Postural Pain Clinic, Marylebone, it’s usually a load-transfer problem.

Modern life builds the same pattern:hips stuck in sitting, stress breathing, asymmetrical daily loading — and the pelvis starts using shortcuts.

Then pain spreads:lower back tightness, SI-region irritation, hip and groin tension, sciatica-like symptoms, knee drift, even foot overload.

The JANMI lens is simple:brakes overwork, sleepers go quiet.

So we do two things:

Release the brakes (targeted soft tissue, trigger points, myofascial work)

Wake the sleepers (short, precise corrective drills — often on the table, chair, or mat)

Not perfect posture. Better options.

Warmly,Paulius
JANMI Postural Pain Clinic, Marylebone

If your shoulders round forward, your neck never switches off, or your arm feels tired doing very little — allow me to i...
10/01/2026

If your shoulders round forward, your neck never switches off, or your arm feels tired doing very little — allow me to introduce a forgotten hero:

Serratus anterior.

It’s the muscle that keeps your shoulder blade politely attached to your rib cage.

Modern life doesn’t ask much of it.So it goes quiet.

Then upper traps panic, neck muscles overwork, shoulders complain, and the elbow gets dragged into the argument.

At JANMI Marylebone, we spend a lot of time researching how to wake serratus anterior properly — not by forcing it, but by giving it the right job again.

You don’t need bigger shoulders.You need a smarter shoulder blade.

Warmly,Paulius

One of the most underestimated muscles in modern postural pain is tibialis posterior.It sits deep in the lower leg, quie...
10/01/2026

One of the most underestimated muscles in modern postural pain is tibialis posterior.

It sits deep in the lower leg, quietly controlling the arch and translating load from the ground into the knee, hip, and pelvis.

Modern life rarely asks it to do its job. Shoes stabilise for it. Floors stay flat. Movement becomes predictable.

So it goes quiet.

When tibialis posterior sleeps, the arch collapses passively, the knee drifts inward, and the hip compensates.

At JANMI Postural Pain Clinic in Marylebone, we spend a lot of time researching how to restore timing, coordination, and load response — not just strength.

Warmly,
Paulius

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JURASIUS APPROACH TO NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION (JANMI)

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I am a founder and leading practitioner of JANMI massage & exercise system- a synergy of advanced soft tissue therapy and home exercises used to manage pain relief, injury prevention & recovery and functional rehabilitation after neurological injuries & strokes, and come from a family of doctors in Lithuania. I originally intended on joining the priesthood and completed a degree in theology. After my studies I decided instead to help others achieve optimal health through complementary therapies. I trained as a Thai massage therapist and reiki master before qualifying in sports and remedial massage, personal training, life coaching and rehabilitation for neurological injuries and strokes.