This year in the USA around eight million people will visit their doctor complaining of shoulder problems. Between fifty five and sixty percent of those will be diagnosed as having a rotator cuff problem. I know it’s no comfort to find that you are only one of millions but at least it means that shoulder [...]
Shoulder injuries like Impingement Syndrome are unbelievably common. Also known as swimmers shoulder or throwers shoulder it can be very painful and is not to be laughed at. I know because a few months ago I injured my shoulder. It was easily done, I was trying to lift something that was too heavy and felt [...]
Unbelievably. nearly eight million people in the United States will suffer a shoulder injury this year and well over half of them will be a direct result of injuring the rotator cuff muscles. If you have undergone surgery, suffered a cuff tear or simply have a weak shoulder rotator cuff specific exercises will help with [...]
The phrase torn rotator cuff covers a multitude of injuries. Firstly there are four muscles in the rotator cuff any one of which can be torn. Secondly there are degrees of tear and finally, how you tear your rotator cuff can influence the treatment and how it responds to therapy.
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The phrase rotator cuff injury covers a huge range of potential shoulder problems but they all have one thing in common which is that one of the four muscles in the rotator cuff has become damaged either as the result of good old fashioned wear and tear or through it being overloaded perhaps by lifting [...]