Anatom3DSkeleton of right pectoral girdle
Skeleton cinguli pectoralis dextri · Kostra pravého pletence horní končetiny
Skeleton
Looks like
The bones of the shoulder girdle, clavicle and scapula, and the joints joining them to each other and to the sternum.
What it does
Gives the arm a mobile base, letting the shoulder blade glide over the ribs to widen its reach.
Keeping it well
A winging shoulder blade suggests a nerve injury to the muscle that holds it; shoulder pain lasting weeks needs a check.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Sarcoma
- Shoulder dislocation
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency