Dr Ozello's Sports Medicine Report: Dorsal Scapular Nerve Entrapment

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Dorsal Scapular Nerve Entrapment
Symptoms: Pain and stiffness in lower cervical and upper thoracic spine. Weakness of rhomboids and levator scapula.
Scapula depression and protraction.
Bodybuilders, weight lifters and overhead athletes.

Anatomy: Arises from either the anterior ramus of C5 nerve root or as first branch of superior trunk of brachial plexus.
Immediately passes obliquely and inferiorly through middle scalene without innervating it.

Motor innervation to the Rhomboid Major. Rhomboid Minor. and Levator Scapulae muscles.

Dr Donald A Ozello DC of Championship Chiropractic in Las Vegas, NV
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