Most Shoulder Injuries Will Respond Well To An Exercise Regime - But Make Sure That It's The Right Type Of Exercise
Shoulder bursities, shoulder dislocation, shoulder impingement, frozen shoulder or torn rotator cuff. Whichever of these shoulder injuries you are suffering from, exercise will almost certainly feature as part of the treatment but you must be ceratin that it is the appropriate sort of shoulder exercise and that you do it at the right time in the healing process or you could be doing more harm than good.
With a rotator cuff injury, for example, it is vital to let the muscles heal and any inflammation to subside before you start any sort of physical therapy. The rotator cuff is made up of four muscles which help to stabilize and move the shoulder joint. They all run from the shoulder blade to the upper arm and pull the ball at the top of the humerus into the socket of the shoulder. They surround the shoulder forming a cuff of muscle, which gives the group their name. If you didn't have them the shoulder would dislocate very easily. One of the muscles, the supraspinatus, runs through a channel of bone at the top of the scapula.
When it gets injured you can end up with a shoulder impingement where the inflammed tendon is getting snagged against the bone every time that you move it. This can lead to the muscle getting frayed and eventually snapping if you ignore it and try exercising. Trust me, that is not a result that you want.
With a frozen shoulder, frustrating as it is, it is important to wait until the end of the freezing stage before starting any exercise as again you can cause more damage. Exercises for frozen shoulder will focus on regaining movement, often trying to work through the pain. If you did the same exercises for a cuff injury, you would simply end up doing even more damage and spending more time recovering. If you're really unlucky you could turn a simple injury, requiring rest and therapy, into a bigger requiring surgery followed by several months of rest and therapy.
So whatever you have done to your shoulder, it is vital to get the treatment right. Pain is usually a good indicator that rest is required and with any type of shoulder injury that is definitely the case. Rest the joint and muscles, try anti-inflammatory drugs take Ibuprofen or get a steroid injection and once the swelling and pain is under control you can start exercising again, but always start with gentle exercises.
If you have damaged one of the rotator cuff muscles, these are very small muscles that should only be exercised using low weights or resistance. To start with youwill probably find that no weight is best just using the natural weight of your arm to make the muscles work..
Never work through shoulder injuries of any sort. Rest first, let the healing start and then start to work the muscles and joint with the right shoulder exercises.
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My name is Nick Bryant and I tore my rotator cuff lifting something that was too heavy. Despite being told that I needed surgery I have fully recovered with just phyical therapy. Check out one of my other articles on shoulder exercises
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