0:05 This is Brent coming at you with yet another overhead squat assessment video. 0:09 In this video we're going to tie in the rest of our upper body dysfunction. I 0:14 showed you guys arms fall in a previous video, in this video we're going to do 0:18 that scapula elevation. I'm going to have my friend Mike come out, Mike's going to 0:23 show a scapula elevation. It is part of his dysfunctional movement pattern, so 0:28 this is a little easier for him to show. This is one of those signs where you 0:32 guys may notice this happen before you even get into the dynamic assessment. If 0:36 I go hey Mike throw your arms over your head, lock your elbows, and you can see 0:41 him almost immediately. It's not just like, let's let's try to do arms up with 0:47 keeping this depressed, i want you to actively keep this down. It's not this, 0:51 this would be a much better pattern, a much better shoulder pattern that he's 0:54 only getting upward rotation, but that his scapular stabilizers can keep them there. 0:58 What you're seeing with Mike is as soon as I haven't throw his arms up, where 1:03 does this scapula go, right everything goes up that way. Now the only reason we 1:08 need the overhead squat is some people are better hiding it, they'll do that 1:11 optimal pattern, and then they'll go down into their squat, and as they go into 1:16 their squat all of this starts elevating up towards their ears. That's it, this is 1:22 all that you guys are looking for. Thanks Mike. So let me break this down for you, 1:26 this is not the easiest sign to break down. Scapular elevation correlates with 1:33 downward rotation, and I know what you guys are thinking, you're thinking 1:36 downward rotation, I just saw something move up, and you're right you did, what 1:41 you saw was the superior angle of the scapula. So if this is my scapula, this 1:46 triangle right, this is the superior angle, you saw the superior angle move up, 1:52 but relative to the glenoid fossa right. So if it's superior to the glenoid fossa, 1:59 my glenoid fossa is now facing down, that's actually downward rotation, and 2:04 you're also seeing a little bit of this anterior tipping as the scapula crawl 2:10 over the rib cage. So what does that say about muscular function, well my downward 2:16 rotators are a lot of muscles you guys already know as 2:19 tight, PEC minor, levator scapulae right that nasty little muscle on the neck, 2:22 your rhomboids. How many of you guys get trigger points between your shoulder 2:26 blades, look up all of these release techniques. I'm sure once you guys start 2:30 doing, you'll be like oh yeah now I know why that stuff is tight. You have some 2:34 stretches in there for those 2, anterior tipping you guys will notice for 2:38 the most part it's the same muscles. So we have PEC minor and levator scapulae 2:42 also up on this part of our graph. So we know that they're short, we know they're 2:46 overactive for two different joint actions. This also adds the upper trap, a 2:50 note on the upper trap guys a lot of play people blame the upper trap for 2:54 being tight, being overactive, being the cause of their pain when actually it's 3:00 the levator scapulae. Now our upward rotators, upper traps, lower traps and 3:09 serratus anterior, these you guys need to learn how to activate, especially lower 3:15 trap and serratus anterior. If you do not have this in your arsenal and you're 3:20 trying to help people with upper body dysfunction, you need to learn some 3:25 activation exercises here, learn your progressions. You can make powerful 3:29 changes with this stuff, and as far as our posterior tippers you guys will 3:33 notice it's the same. So you don't have a whole lot of techniques to learn. You 3:38 guys see there's a lot of overlap. I know downward rotation, upward rotation, anterior, 3:43 posterior tipping, probably some new joint actions for some of you, but 3:47 overall the amount of techniques you have to learn is very small. There's only 3:53 a few release techniques, a couple of stretches and a couple activation 3:56 progressions for you to learn, and you can make huge change. I'll talk with you 4:00 guys soon. I hope you get great outcomes.
