Scapula - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the AP Scapula. The AP scapula should be performed with a patient standing at the upright buccy or lying supine on the radiographic tape with a forty inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. The first one is an AP. Patient is a right at the Buckey, we have forty inches SID. The central ray is two inches inferior to the coracoid. You can also use the top margin of the IR, and that would clear the shoulders two inches. The first one, we're gonna have the patient turn the hand anatomically. And then we're gonna take his hammer and externally rotate it and place it here on top of his head. The reason for that, it helps pull the scapula off the ribs.