Shrugging our shoulders is a familiar way to communicate indifference, uncertainty, or a lack of knowledge. We do this by lifting the shoulders toward the ears. This simple shoulder girdle movement is one of the best examples of scapular movement ON the chest wall (Blog #7 - Scapular movement: ON the ribs or WITH the ribs?). We can easily observe the scapula move upward, but we cannot identify, from a functional standpoint, WHY we shrug. Aside from using this movement as a ge