Patients with chronic pain are more sensitive to potential brachial plexus impingement during scapular retraction exercises than individuals without chronic pain. — Whalespan
Patients with chronic pain are more sensitive to potential brachial plexus impingement during scapular retraction exercises than individuals without chronic pain.
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“for a lot of patients who are going to be doing this they should be careful in especially in the back part because when you put when you pull your scapula back and you let it come down the collarbone will pinch into the brachial plexus and chronic pain patients which are my typical Patient Group they are very sensitive to this whereas Brian is not so sensitive to that”