Paul Brown

Addressing pain or issues in the upper extremities without addressing shoulder stability is very often like trying to fix the cracks in the wall of your house without addressing a poor foundation.

The problem just keeps coming back if you don’t take care of the root cause.

And aside from joint or muscle pain relief, having stable shoulders also maximize[s] your body‘s ability to perform as well as positively affecting other issues like posture, headaches, proper breathing, etc.

When you focus on engaging the serratus anterior it’s crucial to make sure you don’t let your shoulder shrug up towards your ears while performing any of the movements.

There is a time and place to shrug your shoulders but typically when a person has this type of shoulder instability or lack of serratus anterior activity/engagement, it’s difficult to make that mind-muscle connection, but especially difficult when you shrug your shoulders.

Try out this one-two combo and let me know how it goes. Pass along to anybody who could benefit.

Sidenote: that wrist pin elbow rotation is one of the best forearm stretches you can do.

Thanks to @anatomy.of.motion #for the graphics.

#shoulderstability