The document provides information about the pectoral girdle (shoulder girdle) and associated bones, joints, muscles and movements. It describes the clavicle bone, its articulations in the sternoclavicular and acromioclavicular joints. It also describes the scapula bone and its movements. Key muscles that act on the pectoral girdle and humerus are identified, including their origins, insertions and actions. The major joints of the pectoral girdle, the sternoclavicular and acromioclavicular joints, are also summarized.