Discover how text neck syndrome damages your spine, causes chronic pain, and leads to permanent posture problems from ...

“That’s a beautiful scapula, and I’d love to get it out ... When she joined Des Moines University, as a professor of anatomy, she began looking for a project that could extend her ...

The scapula is known as the shoulder blade; and its outer part, the glenoid, is the “socket.” The clavicle is the collar bone. (See Fig. 1) Fig. 1: Anatomy of humerus, glenoid, scapula, and clavicle ...

The primary joint of the shoulder, called the glenohumeral joint, is a ball-and-socket joint in which the humeral head (at the top of the humerus, or the upper arm bone) forms the ball and the glenoid ...

A 14-year-old Asian young woman presented for a routine school physical examination with a 4-month history of an enlarging, nontender mass overlying her left scapula. She initially believed that ...

Pull the arm gently or use weights. Push the lower corner of the shoulder blade towards the midline and rotate the hanging arm whilst applying traction. Illustration: Illumedic The patient can use a ...

Acid reflux, or the regurgitation of stomach acid into the esophagus (feeding tube), can cause radiating back pain, especially between the shoulder blades and across the upper back. This is mainly due ...

BACKGROUND: Programs designed to prevent or rehabilitate athletic injuries or improve athletic performance frequently focus on core stability. This approach is based upon the theory that poor core ...