B.4.1 The Shoulder Girdle
Yoga Teacher Training Material - Winter 2018 • 5m 18s
Covered in 4.1:
-The bones of the shoulder girdle:
-The clavicle
-The scapula
-The humerus
-The main joint in the shoulder girdle is the glenohumeral joint, which is a ball-and-socket joint
-The ball-and-socket joint of the hip is like an orange sitting inside a coffee cup
-The ball and socket joint of the shoulder is more like an orange sitting on a coffee cup saucer
-The hip joint has more stability and less mobility
-The shoulder joint has less stability but more mobility
-The whole upper appendage is attached to the torso via only the sternoclavicular joint
-We need to mindful of this when inverting or placing weight on our hands
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