Your body is comprised of joints, muscles, and structures that connect one bone to the next. A pectoral girdle, also referred to as the shoulder girdle, connects your upper limbs to the bones along ...

Some 3.7 million years ago in what is now South Africa, a human relative straddled two evolutionary moments. Reading time 3 minutes The fossilized shoulder joint of an early hominin named “Little Foot ...

The Skeleton System provides the hard structure or framework to the human body which support and protects the body. It is composed of connective tissues like bones, cartilage, tendons and ligaments.

The scapula has its own set of joint actions: The shoulder girdle has a set of joint actions specific to motion of the scapula. Although this may seem like just another set of confusing terms to ...