Banded Wall Slide
Written By David Song
BANDED WALL SLIDE
This exercise is an open chain stability exercise for the scapular protractors. Have a mini band looped around your hands and elbows against a wall just below shoulder height. Spread the hands to tension the band and keep them in line with your elbows and shoulders. Slowly slide your forearms up the wall as high as you can tolerate and slide them back down.
Muscles Involved:
Serratus Anterior
Pectoralis Major
Pectoralis Minor
Related Conditions:
Shoulder Impingement
Dynamic Shoulder Instability
Labral Tear
Rotator Cuff Tear / Tendinopathy / Tendinitis
SLAP Lesion
Posterior Capsule Impingement
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