- If your shoulder blade is out of place,
it's not in the right position,
you can easily cause shoulder pain, headaches,
a number of different problems.
We're gonna show you four tests you can do at home.
You'll need a second person to do these,
probably a family member or a friend,
because you gotta have your shirt off, or a sports bra.
Okay, let's look at it.
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Okay, so Bob has volunteered to be the subject,
and if we look at his shoulder blades,
there is a noticeable difference on this shoulder blade,
it's actually winging.
You can see there's a hollow spot right in here,
and the shoulder blade is separated from the ribcage,
which is not desirable.
So there are exercises to help get that back.
Let's go to the second test.
Okay, the second test, is you look,
and you have to feel where
the edge of the shoulder blade is,
and I drew a line here, that's the edge here.
Now this shoulder blade,
this is the edge of that shoulder blade or scapula.
And then there's a line right where the spine is,
where the bumps are, the spinous processes.
Now, typically, the measurement should be three inches,
plus or minus a quarter inch or so.
And you can see there's a vast difference between here.
Here we're at about, if I measure that,
it's about two and three quarters inches.
If you measure this, we're about four inches.
And just so, it's bears to witness that
this is Bob's painful side.
So it's very, oh look, we've got a winging scapula,
we've got a irregular distance
from the center of the midline.
We've got a problem here.
Let's go and check another test.
Okay, the next ways we're going to look
at this clavicle, or the collarbone.
I actually drew a line that shows, so it's easy to see.
Now if we look at Bob, if the collarbone
is horizontal like this one is,
or it's close to being horizontal,
that's abnormal, typically, particularly if the other one,
you could see this one goes up.
And that's more
evidence of a normal collarbone,
which the collarbone is positioned
by where the scapula is sitting.
So this scapula is actually a little bit lower
than this one.
A low scapula is problematic,
so this side is problematic, Bob.
Every test is- - It is.
- Yeah. Okay. Let's go to the fourth one.
Okay, the last test, this you do not wanna do in a bed,
probably a carpeted floor would be the best.
We're gonna use this massage table,
it'll work okay, but nothing that's too soft.
And there's bones right here,
it's called the acromion, the bottom edge,
I got a black mark there.
You can feel that bone right there.
You can put a mark on it,
and I mark both sides,
and observe the distance from
the table up to that acromion and the table up to here.,
and actually, if you measure it, we got just
about three inches there, and less than two inches.
And you can see quite clearly this shoulder is up higher.
That means the whole shoulder blade
is up higher on the ribcage.
So all four of your tests, Bob,
I'm afraid your right side is problematic on every one,
which is not that unusual.
So there are exercises
to try to bring that scapula back where it belongs.
This video does not have 'em,
it's not the purpose of this video.
We do have videos on Bob and Brad YouTube channel
on how to strengthen the middle trap, the lower trap,
as well as a trap.
Well, no, (laughing)
what's one of the,
the rhomboids, the rhomboids, yes.
So, look those up,
and you'll find some nice exercises to remedy this.
All right, Bob, thank you for your cooperation,
it's been wonderful, it's been fun.
Now let's get your shirt back on,
so we don't have to look at you. (laughing)
Take care.
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