Hi, Dr. Jaclyn Rabito here with Let’s Move Physical Therapy here to show off two of my favorite shoulder or upper extremity exercises. The first one is called Wall Slides, which works on your seretis interior, which helps your scapula or shoulder blade prevent it from winging, and to keep it more on the rib cage. And so for this exercise, you need a wall that you can keep blank, with nothing on it. I’m going to step into the wall.

My pinkies are on the wall. I’m going to go up in a V and down and then switch and down. There are different variations that you’ll see in doing this to help strengthen you along the way. It’s also good for just general range of motion.

And then the next two favorite exercises I have for your arms pecs is called the reverse tee. So you put your back flat against the wall. Bend your knees shoulder-width apart a little bit. CLAP. Out so you’re getting a nice peck stretch, middle trap, lower trap, middle trap, and back in.

This is what I really like is it really helps your traps. And at the same time, you get a bit of a dynamic stretch across your pecs here again, really good for a range of motion. You’ll see a lot of different variations of this when we work on it in the clinic, depending on how bad or not bad the impingement is and the degree of the angles that we go up. That’s just a generality of how that exercise should look.

Those are my two favorite exercises for the arms.