Parents Shoulder injury

[Cartwheelmom]

Does anyone know anything about long thoracic nerve or winged scapula? My DD was just diagnosed with this.

 

[Jen H.]

My girl has winged scapula and we have been doing PT for 2 months, with marked improvement.
She had been experiencing intermittent (nerve?) pain in her upper arm over the summer, and in hindsight, this is likely where the issue began and started her using her muscles incorrectly and contributing to the winging.

She has always had super (scary) flexibility including her shoulders.
After the arm pain stopped, we started noticing the winging, and she said that her shoulder felt "weird". Her bars also became a mess around this time, and then got even worse for a time after she started PT.

Like I said, after 2 months of PT with a lot of exercises at home, she is relearning and strengthening the correct muscles, and is starting to look a lot better in areas that she had been struggling.