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Shoulder Pain Exercises That Helped To Cure My Shoulder

By: Nick Bryant

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If you are suffering from shoulder pain, then I sympathise. Towarsd the end of last year I managed to tear my rotator cuff. If you know what this is either you are in the medical profession or you have already damaged yoru own rotator cuff. Around 30% of us will suffer a shoulder injury at some point and most of them are rotator cuff problems.

Like most of us,I did not give much thought to how my shoulders worked until I damaged one of them. Since then I have learnt so much that I could write a book about shoulder ailments.

Shoulder pain can be debilitating. It is only when you damage a shoulder that you understand just how much you rely on your shoulders. After all, your arms are attached to them and you use your arms all the time without thinking and virtually every arm movement is relayed to your shoulder to some extent.

So it comes as no surprise that shoulder pain can cause so many problems. There are several causes of shoulder pain. Here are a few.

Like me, it could be a rotator cuff problem. The rotator cuff is a group of muscles that all help to hold the head of the humerus into the shoulder socket. Tear one of them and you have constant shoulder pain whenever you try lifting your arm above shoulder height.

Bursitis of the shoulder can be equally painful. The bursa is a sac of fluid that helps to protect the shoulder joint as it moves. It can become inflamed in which case you will experience pain with virtually every movement.

Frozen shoulder on the other hand is caused by the internal membrane that surrounds the shoulder joint. This can become inflamed following an injury, scar tissue can form and the shoulder can become painful and have severely restricted movement.

Alright, enough of the gloom and doom.

I had suffered from shoulder pain for six months, I was told that I would need surgery to correct my torn rotator cuff and so I started researching shoulder injuries and pain and found out that a lot of them can be fixed with simpel exercise. Even whenyou require surgery, exercise will feature strongly in the recovery process.

So having found out that exercise is vital to recovery the next thing was to find out what exercise suited my injury best. I did not want to try any weights simply because I am not a member of a gym and I could not see how lifting weights was going to do anything but harm. My research has since confirmed this.

I started looking into Pilates and Yoga. These came across as gentle exercises that allow you to do as much as you comfortably can. They focus on control and flexibility as well as strength and use the bodies own resistance to build up weakened muscles. Because you are working within your own natural limits there was little chance of doing extra damage.

Having suffered six months of pain I was reluctant to risk doing any further damage so this side of Pilates appealed to me.

Over the next few weeks, I gradually built up my exercises starting off with stretching exercises to regain the flexibility after months of restricted movement, moving onto exercises to give control and stabilise the joint and finally moved on to strengthening exercises to build up the muscles and prevent future problems. I found myself back to full pain free movement in my shoulder within a couple of months.

Pilates focuses on balance within the body. Shoulder problems tend to be the domain of the athletes and anyone over forty. As we age, some muscles start to get lazy, we change our posture, carry ourselves differently. Exercising gradually wakes up the last muscles and puts our bodies back in balance.

I know that makes me sound like an aging hippy but who cares as long as there is no more shoulder pain.

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