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Rotator Cuff Injury Exercises -Or Rotator Cuff Injury Prevention Exercises

By: Nick Bryant

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A rotator cuff injury is one of the most common shoulder injuries. Nearly eight million Americans are going to suffer from a shoulder injury this year and around Sixty percent of them will be a rotator cuff injury. So when should you be doing rotator cuff injury exercises.

The obvious answer is when you have damaged this group of muscles but if more of us thought about them before we damaged them, there would be fewer people waiting at the doctor.

If you do sports that involve overhead movement you are at risk of injury. Javelin throwers, Baseball Players and tennis players are all at greater risk simply because this group of muscles is put at most risk when you use your arm above shoulder height. Add a sporting activity to that and you have a recipe for problems especially if you never exercise the rotator cuff.

Does a hobby or your work include working above shoulder height? Rotator cuff injury is a classic injury for painters and decorators or plasterers.

Are you over forty? If so then you have just entered the at risk group. As we get older these muscles weaken through lack of use and then suddenly we'll decide to work them hard unexpectedly. Through a ball with the kids, start playing sport again take up golf. The muscles just are not prepared for it and the sudden exercise often causes injury. Five minuets of feeling youthful again can leave you in pain for weeks.

So if you are in any of these groups then you are already at risk and need to be exercising your rotator cuff muscles on a regular basis. The good news is that it will not take long on a daily basis and you will hardly break sweat. These are fairly small muscles that you will exercise with little or no weight. Most of rotator cuff exercises for both damaged and healthy muscles are Pilates basedand involve slow gentle exercises that are more about control than intensity

The main difference if you have already damaged your rotator cuff is that it needs to heal before you start any sort of exercise. If you feel pain when you lift your arm, or reach for something then you probably have a rotator cuff injury. If reaching behind you or lying down causes pain in yoru shoulder then it is probably too late to start preventative exercise and too soon to start therapeutic exercise.

Rotator cuff tears or injuries are painful when you move because the muscles get pinched when they are inflamed and any movement is simply causing more damage. You need to rest the injury, treat the inflammation and manage the pain before you start any type of exercise.

The exercises to return your rotator cuff to full health are the same exercises that you would have done to prevent an injury so if you haven't yet injured your rotator cuff, there is no better time to start. What have you got to lose, you have a one in three chance of a rotator cuff injury and just five or ten minutes a day is all it will take to keep your shoulders healthy and pain free.

If I could turn back the clock to pre-injury, I would be exercising these muscles on a daily basis.

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If you want to know what rotator cuff injury exercises helped me to fix my shoulder without surgery check out my story at www.myrotatorcuffcure.blogspot.com

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