BOSTON, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- XRHealth, the leader in extended reality and therapeutic applications, announces today that they received a patent to measure neck and shoulder protraction ...

Drawing the shoulders apart deals with protraction as you push your chest away from the floor, whereas retraction involves pulling the shoulder blades toward each other and drawing the shoulders back.

Learn about protraction, retraction, elevation, depression, upward rotation, etc., along with all of the muscles responsible for these joint actions.

Objectives: To determine if the muscle force and electromyographic activity in the scapular rotators of overhead athletes with impingement symptoms showed differences between the injured and ...

Commonly programmed during warm-ups, scapula push-ups move the chest, shoulders and shoulder blades through protraction and retraction to help prepare them for upper-body workouts.

When a P-cell was suppressed during protraction, the tongue's trajectory became hypermetric, overshooting the intended target during movements. When the suppression took place during retraction ...

By mapping the neural pathways involved in C2 whisker retraction and protraction, the authors found that M1 C2 and S1 C2 have reciprocal connections and project to adjacent regions in subcortical ...