Clients with wide infrasternal angles and narrow infrasternal angles tend to benefit from different strategies in regard to improving shoulder flexion range of motion. Shoulder impingement or simple achieving a normal overhead reach without using a compensatory reaching strategy is built from the lower thorax upward. This video explains why it’s important to improve the […]
Shoulder impingement exercises
A Better Way to Measure Shoulder Flexion to Target Rehab and Training Strategies
Thinking in straight planes like shoulder flexion is misguided. We need to think differently about how movements are achieved. Shoulder flexion involves a great deal of shoulder rotation. If this rotation is not accounted for in the measurement, you’ll fail to succeed quickly and you may even select the wrong shoulder rehab exercises or strategy […]
How to Perform a Scapular Decompression Mobilization to Promote Dorsal-Rostral Expansion
Compensatory breathing strategies may result in an increase in the muscular concentric orientation that compresses the dorsal-rostral thorax. Common findings include limited ipsilateral lower cervical rotation, ipsilateral shoulder flexion, and limited horizontal shoulder abduction. In many cases, a diagnosis of shoulder or rotator cuff impingement may be associated as well. If your client is unable […]