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Bend your arm and turn it out over your head

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last update: 13.2.2022
Name: Bend arm over head

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• Contraindication
• Effects
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• derived asanas
• similar asanas
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• Instructions
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• Variants

Instructions

1. Stand in tadasana.
2. Hold both arms in urdhva hastasana.
3. Bend both arms at the elbow joints and rotate the forearms backwards (out of the field of vision) without allowing the elbows to move outwards or forwards.
4. In the final position, the forearms should be horizontal and parallel and the upper arms vertical and parallel.

details

1. This exploration shows the relationship between the dimensions of movement in the shoulder joint. In the vast majority of cases, the goal of the posture cannot be achieved, and it can be seen that the exorotation of the upper arm in the shoulder joint clearly tends to move the elbows forwards and thus the upper arms out of the vertical and also outwards. This makes it clear that very wide frontal abduction is at the expense of exorotation and, conversely, very wide exorotation is at the expense of frontal abduction (anteversion).