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Chicken Wings? Do you have poor scapular (shoulder blade) control? Many people do. Thanks technologically driven society. Rounded shoulders and winging scapula are easy to spot in a crowd of people.
The scapula and the group of muscles (17 of them) around it assist in moving your arm. If you injure one of those muscles or the nerves that supply them, or simply do not use them very much, you will likely experience a lack of scapular control which can then translate to weakness, pain, or difficulty moving the arm and shoulder. Sometimes you may even hear or feel some “crunchiness” in there.
Strengthening the muscles around the scapula can decrease the risk of injury, promote better posture, and can help you transfer forces between the arms and rest of the body. So you can look better, feel better, and perform better!
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The exercise in the video will help you regain some control of your blades. When doing any of these exercises, pay attention👀 to your ribs and be sure you aren’t thrusting them up to achieve the move. Also think about trying to rotate your armpit up toward the ceiling, using the scapula. Do not simply twist the arm so the bicep points up. You can do that without using the blade at all and we see that a lot. Really think about the blade rotating the armpit upward.
You can practice this stuff all day long. While brushing your teeth, riding the subway, in line at the checkout… ALL the places. Any time you remember it, play around with it. It will eventually become habit to keep the blades in a better position.
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Anatomy Art by Ashley Kay Art / ashleykayart