This week we are going to discuss a muscular problem of the shoulder blade which is quite problematic in some patients and can be seriously disabling in others—the levator scapulae syndrome. The ...

Patient 1 was referred with proximal muscle weakness and scapular winging, suggestive of an inherited myopathy and was included in a whole-exome sequencing (WES) study. Patient 2 is the mildly ...

Your scapulae are flat, triangular bones that float on the back of your rib cage, anchored only by muscles. Each scapula can move in six different directions: up, down, in toward your spine, and out ...

In caves and rock shelters around the Levant, archaeologists keep finding gazelle scapulae (shoulder blades) marked with a series of regular notches. Scientists still aren’t sure what kind of ...