The cure for subacromial impingement syndrome: How to perform scapular upwards rotation 

My MSK homeboy is stacked and jacked. Great vid!

YES YES LOVE THE VIDEO! explained so well!

Excellent video! Thank you

Holy shit dude the queue to think about raising your subacromium joint/ collar bone during upward rotation saved my right shoulder pain for over 2 years man. It really helps involve my traps right along with the Serratus and feels more natural. I can’t thank you enough I hope I can meet you someday cause man I need to give you a hug for this. 🐐 👑

Thank you for this.

Awesome video thanks for sharing. Has pretty much eliminated some shoulder problems I've been having for a while and moving it feels much better!

The lat spread thing is an amazing cue, basically lat spread and then raise the acromion. Took a while for me to understand but now I can feel and see the upward rotation in practice, time to overhead press!!!!

I appreciate the videos about shoulders

I used this queue to do my incline db presses today. I went from 30 lbs with aching shoulders and neck pain to doing 50s with perfect form actually able to press till failure. Just mind blown tbh. I was extremely skeptical when I first saw your channel.. now I just wanna hug you! Lol thanks man

Thanks so much

Thanks will try

Thank you

My shoulder fixed after 3 years of pain you're a hero mate I managed to bowl at cricket without pain It was a weird but happy feeling when I didn't get any tingles down my arm

Wow this was probably the best video in all youtube to explain and really theach this movement. Suffered 10 years of of chronic shoulder problems and this might finally be the fix. So thank you very very much nordic brother!

thanks

You are hero Thank you very much This video very useful شكرا لك أيها الرجل النبيل نادرا ما نجد شخصا يحب مساعدة الآخرين

I wonder if you could shed some light on the scapula orientation in front squat.

Kjetil...You look like a Viking warrior, and with the brilliance of a true scholar. Your education on muscular skeletal anatomy and in depth body mechanics have helped me invaluably. You provide such a wealth of crucial information that just can’t be found anywhere else❤️

thanks bro!

Can you go over proper scapula movement during the bench press again in greater detail?

When you mention there are nuances to performing the upward rotation like a lat spread- what might they be for example?

Your videos are a blessing. You can do with a better microphone though for the beginning of the video :)

i have question,but, ineed a answer too..... what about swimming or hanging on a bar?

So when at rest it seems like a decent way to cue yourself could be to just stop resisting the forward rotation of your shoulders (if you are muscular) and raise them slightly with traps?

Hi dear Kjetil, I am trying the flexion. I am severily struggling to do this correctly (have anterior shoulder rotation due to frozen shoulder post impingement surgery). When you say 'scapula wraps around the thorax', does the medial scapular border move towards or away from the spine? From your skeletal demo, I understand it moves laterally away from spine before the arm is going up? My medial scapular border is sticking out and I have the feeling it is already sitting too lateral/far off the spine before I start the movement. Do I first have to get my scapular border closer to the spine (medial direction and closer to thorax) and get the shoulder correctly aligned in cranio-caudal direction (so neutral rather than forward rotation) first prior to doing what you demonstrate? Many thanks for your help.

In posture, straight upwards elevation of the scapula (with of course some inevitable upwards rotation) seems to help with my TOS, however, when I voluntarily “open up” as you describe at 3:54 and slightly abduct the scapula, I immediately feel a tightness in my pec minor. Should I then stick to straight upwards elevation until my PM is flexible enough to handle “opening up” the scapula?

your videos are just unbelievably informative and helpful I'm just so thankful, thank you so much you're like the best physiotherapist. I went to your website and read your article "How to properly & permanently resolve scapular dyskinesis" and I did as you tell your patients to do, I raised my scapulars using my traps. I've managed to nearly fix my scapular dyskinesis in like a week, the only problem is when I hold my scapulars in this position for some reason my superior angle sticks out of my back unless I relax in this position. Will it eventually fix itself?

i dont get the part in the abduction or lateral raises?basically u want to keep the scapula up during the movement?

thank you Sir. could you also address how the humorous turns into ER as we go for full elevation.

Is the scapula position in push-ups identical to the one in bench press? And could you please also tell us how the scapula should move in dips, and how deep we can go without putting the shoulders at a greater risk of injury?

My right shoulder impinges when I do lateral raises. I've had several PTs look at it and they gave me exercises to do (wall slides) but it's not helping. How do I train my scapula to rotate easily? I have to really focus on it for it to rotate.

im staring at the wall sometimes just trying to teach my body to do this right LOL

Thanks man. One off-topic question: In the past years, have you discovered any new conservative techniques for curing TOS? Would be very interested as you're arguably one of the most specialized persons in the world in that area

How do i avoid activating the levator muscle when trying to achieve scapular upward rotation?

in the pull up and lat pull downs what need to be the position of the scapula in the bottom and the top? and should you lock out the arms in vertical and horizontal pulls? thank you.

Nice video ^^ I just have one question : are we ok to say that the bar cannot touch our chest with that bench press technic ?

Hi I am recovering from a frozen shoulder on my left side. Its been a little over two years. With lots of physio i have increased range of motion to about 90%. I still have one part that i cant figure out. When i perform the movement of an upright row i cant feel the fibers on back of my left shoulder activate like i feel on the right. There is strain in the area from the front deltoid region to the front upper pec. Its hard to describe exactly but what muscles might be tight that are preventing me to perform an upright row?

I just did this when doing barbell shrugs and for the first time I could feel my upper traps working.

When I do pull ups should I let my scapula come up all the way when I'm at the bottom? (Doint a dead hang).

Sir should we also NOT depress the scapulae during dips? Isn't shrugging while dips risky?

Do vertical shrugs work on upper traps or middle traps?

How do you treat a dislocated shoulder?

is it normal for the scapula to sometimes pop on the way down (no pain associate with the popping)? I fell some tensioning the chest while performig upwards rotation

i have shoulder impingement and i did surgery and now from 6 year after surgery i have tos also how i fix plz

When I do this I feel pins and needles in my arm. Is that normal?

If I can ask a question please, when executing a row, does the scapula also slightly elevate and follow the humerus as the arm goes in flexion when reaching and stays there for the movement?

Hey Kjetil, do you think upright rows have a place in shoulder training or are they inherently dangerous?

How qualified are you at reading MRI's? in comparison to a radiologist

Scapula position for deadlifts and or squat?

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How can someone upload a video with this Video and Sound quality in 2022? Sorry I cant understand a decision like this. Almost every $100 Smartphone has better video quality

Great video. I've been searching for knowledge out of the "mainstream" for decades and kept hitting roadblocks. Do you have any knowledge/perspective for tennis serving? I am an ATP coach and my athletes often develop brachial plexus impingement resulting in a multitude of overuse injuries.