Depressed Right Shoulder, Adducted Right Hip?

Training Injuries
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  1. How do you know if you have an adducted right hip? What are some symptoms of that?

  2. My left shoulder is higher than my right shoulder. How do I know if it is my left shoulder that is elevated or if it is my right shoulder that is depressed?

Thanks.

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To answer your second question, you can’t tell if one shoulder is elevated or the other depressed. But for most people, your dominant hand side will be lower than the other, due to muscle development and use. I will venture a guess that you are right handed?

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[quote]jimmyiosis wrote:
To answer your second question, you can’t tell if one shoulder is elevated or the other depressed. But for most people, your dominant hand side will be lower than the other, due to muscle development and use. I will venture a guess that you are right handed?[/quote]

I have this problem. I also have a winged scapula on the right side. Are these two things related or seperate issues?

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winged scapula is usually (I say this cautiously) caused my serratus anterior weakness on that side.

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jimmyiosis: I typed up a really long response yesterday that I guess was never approved by the mods or lost on the internets or something. But anyway, I am actually left-handed for writing but use my right hand for a lot of tasks including the computer mouse. So that makes it even harder to tell :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for the responses!

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[quote]jimmyiosis wrote:
winged scapula is usually (I say this cautiously) caused my serratus anterior weakness on that side.
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I suspected as much… I’m going to try to get it sorted out by a physio as I’ve tried a lot of correctional exercises to not very much avail.

Thanks

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[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:

[quote]Mr_White wrote:

[quote]jimmyiosis wrote:
winged scapula is usually (I say this cautiously) caused my serratus anterior weakness on that side.
[/quote]

I suspected as much… I’m going to try to get it sorted out by a physio as I’ve tried a lot of correctional exercises to not very much avail.

Thanks [/quote]

Unfortunately jimiosis is not correct. Or rather he is half correct, but has not taken the chain of reasoning to its ultimate conclusion.

It is much more likely that a tight/short/hypertonic pectoralis minor is the root cause of the issue. Such a beast will, by warrant of sherringtons law of reciprocal inhibition, inhibit function of the serratus anterior (and other muscles possibly).

Strengthening the s.ant is often fruitless, since neurologically it is still inhibited, once the ‘forced contraction’ of rehab is removed.

That is my opinion.

BBB[/quote]

You’re usually right BBB! Hell who am I kidding. You have never been wrong so far.

Anyway I’ll mention that to the physio if I can remember what you just typed word for word lol.

I’d like to get it fixed, it looks ugly.

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[quote]lavi wrote:

  1. How do you know if you have an adducted right hip? What are some symptoms of that?

  2. My left shoulder is higher than my right shoulder. How do I know if it is my left shoulder that is elevated or if it is my right shoulder that is depressed?

Thanks.[/quote]

For 1): When standing, is one hip higher than the other? If one hip is higher, that hip is adducted.