Let’s hear what a sports medicine surgeon has to say about lifting weights with a winged scapula, and this includes the bench press. If a person has a winged scapula – an actual diagnosis rather [...]
“Scapular winging could be mistaken for a tumor, or vice versa,” says John-Paul H. Rue, MD. This is precisely what you were hoping NOT to hear: a cancer can be mistaken for a benign winging [...]
Lifting weights can cause a number of injuries involving the shoulder and back, and many weightlifters wonder if a winged scapula can be one such injury. […]
You can have a “winged scapula” and not even know it. When’s the last time you looked at your upper back in a mirror? A winged scapula can progress and require treatment. […]
You may have what looks like a winged scapula, but it may be something else that’s benign. In my case, the diagnosis was “functional weakness of the parascapular muscles.” The name is odd in that [...]
