Trapezius Botox aka ‘Traptox’

[lemoncurd1995]

I’ve been doing a lot of research about this treatment and seen a lot of it on social media recently.

Background - I have absolutely humongous manly traps (no joke, men would be proud). They are extremely tight and cause bad posture, headaches and general pain. I do workout a lot but I have always had huge traps, even before I did weight training. They’ve just got worse since.

Ive seen a lot of things about Botox in that area to help with pain and slim them down. I just wondered if anyone had gone down this route and had any positive feedback (or negative) as the results I’ve seen seem cert average and there aren’t a lot of before and afters. Also very very few negatives which can’t be the case either. I’ve seen a few results saying it didn’t work for them and a lot raving about it.

thank you

Have you spoken to a physio?

How could Botox slim down muscles? Surely it freezes them? Wouldn't you end up just having really stiff shoulders?!

Not working so hard on your traps seems to be the most logical solution.

Because it relaxes them so that they atrophy - it does work! And no it doesn’t freeze them, you don’t get a freezing dosage like you do in your face, it’s just a relaxant. Botox is medically used to relax a lot of muscles other than in the face.

I dont work on my traps at all!! But by purely lifting weights for other parts of one body, they grow and are abnormally active

This is very helpful thank you! I have also seen a physo and all the others, acupuncture the lot and nothing has helped.

Regular medical massage also sounds like it could help to prevent your muscles clenching and causing pain.

Thank you so much, I will do.

And yes, you are totally correct with the 1st statement, it’s not a case of clenching at all

I’ve already had this - physio, massages and acupuncture. It’s not a case of clenching, they are the dominant muscle which I cannot control

I know this is old, but did you ever do this? What did you pay?

My osteopath recommended it to me for tension.

I had trap Botox a few weeks ago after 12 years of chronic neck/ shoulder pain caused by a vertebrae injury long since healed. It has been miraculous in terms of pain relief and mobility. I should have had it done years ago.
I have seen doctors, consultants, physios, had MRI scans, steroid injection (in the wrong place apparently!) I don’t know about the ‘slimming’ effect but the muscle on the bad side is visibly less tense. I’m hoping to work on strengthening the muscles and flexibility while it feels so good, to make a permanent change

I realise I answered an old thread in my excitement ! I paid £1000 on Harley street for it.

Thanks. That is a lot. I've seen it with a medical Dr (who I've used for botox before) for £395. I'm guessing lasts around 5 months as per other botox....?

it can last longer I think, but there is some hope that once the muscles have broken the happen they won’t back- though I suppose my case is quite specific, as the tension was a reaction to avoiding neck pain over a long period of time

This is very interesting. I've read about Botox for myofascial pain and I would say it'll become more popular in the next few years. Botox has been used medically for ages, patients with cerebral palsy or those with other neurological conditions get it to ease muscle spasticity for eg.

I've had Botox on my forehead muscles for 10+ years now and the muscle has completely atrophied, the power in the muscles is completely gone now.

I've also had Botox in my oesophagus because I couldn't burp and after 40+ years of not being able to belch it's been life changing!

God I love Botox.

I hope you got some results to your traps muscle issue OP.

I think the idea is that you use the time to strengthen surrounding muscles to sort of retrain the neural pathways.

Just to mention, as I think I did when the thread was fresh, be very careful about who does this. I also had it done on Harley Street and was told that it really needs to be done by an expert, using ultrasound guidance, because the top of the lung comes up that high, so if done wrong, you can end up with a collapsed lung.