4 Department of Physical Therapy, Sapporo Medical University, Hokkaido, Japan Background The scapular resting alignment is one of typical quantitative clinical evaluation of the scapular kinematics.

Peter Lapner, MD, FRCSC, and colleagues randomly assigned 100 patients undergoing anatomic shoulder arthroplasty to either the subscapularis tenotomy (n=47) or subscapularis peel approach (n=53).

Background: Abnormal scapular displacements during arm elevation have been observed in people with shoulder impingement syndrome. These abnormal scapular displacements were evaluated using different ...

Background Shoulder injuries are common among handball players and are dominated by overuse characteristics. Objective Assess the effect of three previously identified risk factors for shoulder ...

Here are a few fitness terms you might hear at a gym, in a fitness video, or from a physiotherapist: protraction, retraction, elevation, and depression. Add to this the upward rotation, and a downward ...

The scapula has its own set of joint actions: The shoulder girdle has a set of joint actions specific to motion of the scapula. Although this may seem like just another set of confusing terms to ...