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Working hours on the computer, surfing the Internet, watching TV, driving, or simply sitting in a bad posture can cause the shoulders to tighten and the joints to lose mobility.
The shoulder mobility test assesses your shoulder mobility in all directions.
How is your shoulder mobility?
- Sit or stand with your right arm straight up and your left arm next to your body.
- Then bend your right forearm from the elbow and reach with your hand as low behind your back as possible between your shoulder blades.
- Then bend your left elbow and bring your left hand behind your back as high as possible.
- Try to bring the hands together as short as possible.
- Ask someone to measure how far you get. If you can’t touch your hands, you can hold a tape measure to measure the distance.
- Then do this exercise along the other side, left arm at the top and right arm at the bottom.
How is your shoulder mobility?
- You can link the fingers = very good shoulder mobility
- The fingers touch = good shoulder mobility
- Fingertips less than 5 cm apart = some extra mobility needed
- Opening more than 5 cm = work to be done!
If the test is easier to perform on one side than the other, it means that there is an imbalance between the right and left sides that should also be addressed.
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