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Joint and Muscle Awareness
If you wish your body move more efficiently you need to understand how it is designed to function. In order to improve your overall movement, you need to develop awareness about skeletal and muscular components of the human body, and how they are intended to be used. For example, it is not widely recognized that shoulder girdle and pelvic girdle are meant to support in a particular way the movement of the upper and lower extremities.
Movement Mechanics Awareness
The primary purpose of the shoulder blades and colar bones is to provide stabilization for performing skeletal joint and muscular actions also known as motion mechanics. If the shoulder joints are not properly supported the shoulder joints will carry excessive load and it can contribute to injury.
If you have not been engaging shoulder gidle the muscles responsible for their movement are likely to be tight and weak. As a first step, you should learn how to move properly shoulder blades and colar bones movements to accomplish roll and slide joint motions.
For example, you play baseball, basketball or lifting weights joints and you may experience upper limb pain. The wrist joints, elbow joints and shoulder joints should be aligned with the shoulder blades and colar bones to throw a pitch, make a shot or lift a weight. It is important to understand that shoulder blades, colar bones and shoulder joints are supposed to work as one functional unit when upper limbs movements are performed .