Winging scapula

[annaren]

Thanks. Can you suggest ways to increase thoracic spine motion.
Would front crawl be better than breast stroke. Mind you basically any stroke I repeatedly do hurts. I figured that the best thing is just to a few or everything - float, breast, crawl, back.
Does this sort of problem usually resolve once the correct exercises are being done?
Do I also need to do exercises to strengthen the muscles you mentioned ?
Thanks you so so much

[sixphysio]

get out of the pool, get some treatment on your thoracic spine, learn how to move better, then get back into the pool and get stronger. keep it functional only after you've got your back pushed around

it's not about strength, it's about control of movement. it's not about exercises (you've done enough), yet.

cheers

sixphysio