here we are with the scapula and you can imagine the scapula is also aptly and affectionately called the shoulder blade and so this shoulder blade or it looks seriously like a blade because of course it's very flat and uh it's on your shoulder and that's why they call it the shoulder blade uh is a wonderful portion of the pectoral girdle it allows us to have a lot greater movement and so here we are with just trying to describe some of the structures and the markings but we always start off as always with laterality which side is which and let's take look at some of the structures that will help us to determine that first and foremost the biggest marking is something that you would want to grab a hold of and this little guy is called the spine of the scapula so the largest one that's always on the posterior side you would hate if all of a sudden this was on the anterior sides and then this would nicely smooth go up and down your rib cage but if you turn this on the posterior side uh you could imagine or anterior side this is facing if your face is over here you can imagine your rib cage would be here and then ouch ouch ouch ouch every single time you raise your shoulders up so the spine is always posterior okay so this is always posterior and that gives you the First Dimension so the other dimension is this that once you see the spine it starts flaring into this larger portion called the acromion and the acromion is always lateral this is always towards your shoulder and you can imagine this is the tips of your shoulder AC chromal means tips of your shoulders and so here we are with the acromion being noun that is this FL ler padd likee structure uh being lateral so if we got posterior and lateral now we just need to figure out what's Superior and what's always superior what's nice is this little big Hawk like beak structure called the cor covid process so this corcoy process is always on the superior end as well as this little Notch if you have one of these this is the uh scapular Notch so this guy right here cor covid process is superior so if I were to put it on my body or you or if say for instance it's it's you it would go like this on the left hand side so this would be left if you're if you're laying and this is the your nose this would lay like this so this would be a left scapula all right let's take a look at the some of the other structur so far we got chroman corcoy process scapular Notch and the spine well what you'll find is that we get this nice little Fuca here that almost looks like a thumb print and this thumb print is what we call the glenoid fossa and the glenoid fossa is where your shoulder's going to be above it of course is this little bump called the supraglenoid tubal below it is the infraglenoid tubric and we're going to find this over and over again things that constantly remind us of Direction and so if I also take a look we have the spine and above the spine is this shallow depression on Groove we call this the Supra spinus FASA and below it is called the infra spinus FAA and if I were to go below below the fosa or the scapula you would find this what we call the infra sorry the sub scapular Fuca so sub as if you're going into the sub basement there so sub scapular Fuca is the shall the whole thing the shallow depression or Groove suas spinus fossa infraspinous fossa glenoid fossa plenty of fossas here and then of course that little Notch where a nerve is going to go called the super scapular Notch racing over that lastly once you get all these directions down it helps because then you get what we call the superior angle this little tip here and then the inferior angle down here and then of course the medial border and the lateral border and the superior border those are major structures that we will be counter with the scapula so let's review spine of the scapula flares out into the chroman of the scapula the chroman as well as the Kora covid process has some fossas glenoid fossa suas spinus fossa infraspinous FSA subscapular fossa with the scapular Notch at the top fossil has the Super glenoid tubal at the top infr glenoid tubal at the bottom and now if I'm looking this way medial border lateral border Superior border with the superior angle and the inferior angle being the tips