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Class Title: 52b Kines. Back and Post. Shoulder Girdle
Course(s) and Hours:
Class Description
Learning Objectives
Past - really excite them about anatomy
Present –
Make this class more palpation, than lecture of muscle, OIA, movement – passive and
active movement - feeling the muscles shorten and lengthen. Focus is on lower back
and posterior shoulder girdle.
 Mention along the way - latissimus dorsi, trapezius, supraspinatus, rhomboids,
levator scapula, infraspinatus
and the layers they’re on –
Then spend more time covering precisely
 subscapularis
 serratus anterior
 erectors spinae (spinalis, longissimus and iliocostalis)
 Semispinalis (especially in the posterior neck)
 multifidus
 quadratus lumborum
Future – help build their sense that what they’ll learn through this program will be
tremendously valuable to their service (livelihood & life)
Class Outline
Time
10:15-10:20
Description
Set-up tables right away – do it quickly (if folks
can help over the previous break, great!)
Attendance. Introduce yourself and today’s
topic.
May 1, 2017
Assignment/Resources
Trail Guide pp. 68-88,
196 -202, 207-208, 220
skim 188-195
10:20-10:55
lecture/discuss/show palpation of
Mention along the way - latissimus dorsi,
trapezius, supraspinatus, rhomboids, levator
scapula, infraspinatus
and the layers they’re on –
Then spend more time covering precisely
 subscapularis
 serratus anterior
 erectors spinae (spinalis, longissimus
and iliocostalis)
 Semispinalis (especially in the posterior
neck)
 Multifidus (for now you can mostly just
focus on these in the back, not
necessarily the neck)
 quadratus lumborum
Show how to palpate these muscles including
the upper spine (posterior neck) as basically
part of the back in the fullest sense.
In the next Deep Massage technique class they
have, they will work with, in addition to basic
DM for the back and the posterior shoulder
girdle – also the first two main layers of the
posterior neck work – trapezius, and
semispinalis (considered as part of the cervical
erectors).
10:55-11:05
break
11:05-11:40
guided palpation and other practical
explorations of those muscles (in groups of
three)
Group 1
Have them palpate in layers - include using
actions to feel the muscles –
(Briefly - latissimus dorsi, trapezius,
supraspinatus, rhomboids, levator scapula,
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infraspinatus - to be more conscious the layers
they’re on)
Then they should spend more time covering
precisely
Then spend more time covering precisely
 subscapularis
 serratus anterior
 erectors spinae (spinalis, longissimus
and iliocostalis)
 Semispinalis (especially in the posterior
neck)
 multifidus
 quadratus lumborum
May 1, 2017

In the palpation include having them
palpate OIA’s.

Find the tendons and where they
precisely they attach to bone.

Feel for muscle tension, where’s the
tightest part of the muscle in this
person?

Do you notice any adhesions between
fascial layers? Fibrosities? Begin getting
a deeper feeling for where deeper work
may be helpful.

Feel movement – ROM and active
resistive contraction.

Feel both passive and actively
contracting and lengthening.

How easily does this muscle stretch in
this person?

Teacher - Go around assisting and
actively making them answer questions
about these muscles or showing their
palpation so they are truly accountable
for this knowledge.
Group 2
11:40-12:15
Have them palpate in layers - include using
actions to feel the muscles –
(Briefly - levator scapula, latissimus dorsi,
trapezius, supraspinatus, rhomboids
to be more conscious the layers they’re on)
Then they should spend more time covering
precisely
Then spend more time covering precisely
 levator scapula
 subscapularis
 infraspinatus
 serratus anterior
 erectors spinae (spinalis, longissimus
and iliocostalis)
 Semispinalis (especially in the posterior
neck)
 multifidus
 quadratus lumborum
May 1, 2017

In the palpation include having them
palpate OIA’s.

Find the tendons and where they
precisely they attach to bone.

Feel for muscle tension, where’s the
tightest part of the muscle in this
person?

Do you notice any adhesions between
fascial layers? Fibrosities? Begin getting
a deeper feeling for where deeper work
may be helpful.

Feel movement – ROM and active
resistive contraction.

Feel both passive and actively
contracting and lengthening.

How easily does this muscle stretch in
this person?

Teacher - Go around assisting and
actively making them answer questions
about these muscles or showing their
palpation so they are truly accountable
for this knowledge
break
12:15-12:30
Group 3
12:30-1:05
Have them palpate in layers - include using
actions to feel the muscles –
(Briefly - levator scapula, latissimus dorsi,
trapezius, supraspinatus, rhomboids
to be more conscious the layers they’re on)
Then they should spend more time covering
precisely
Then spend more time covering precisely
 levator scapula
 subscapularis
 infraspinatus
 serratus anterior
 erectors spinae (spinalis, longissimus
and iliocostalis)
 Semispinalis (especially in the posterior
neck)
 multifidus
 quadratus lumborum

May 1, 2017
In the palpation include having them
palpate OIA’s.

Find the tendons and where they
precisely they attach to bone.

Feel for muscle tension, where’s the
tightest part of the muscle in this
person?

Do you notice any adhesions between
fascial layers? Fibrosities? Begin getting
a deeper feeling for where deeper work
may be helpful.

Feel movement – ROM and active
resistive contraction.

Feel both passive and actively
contracting and lengthening.

How easily does this muscle stretch in
this person?

Teacher - Go around assisting and
actively making them answer questions
about these muscles or showing their
palpation so they are truly accountable
for this knowledge.
put tables away
1:05-1:10
1:10-1:30
Share discoveries!
learnings, surprises, disappointments,
satisfactions
Use the Trail guide as your primary source for
your lecture and their palpations.
Assignment
Trail Guide pp. 68-88, 196 -202, 207-208, 220
skim 188-195
May 1, 2017
May 1, 2017