Exercises for Rotator Cuff Blog

This is my first post so I want to share with you how I got the idea to start a blog, and why the hell a 26 year old would want to talk about a health problem such as a rotator cuff injury.

About 8 months ago my friend convinced me to register to the gym with her. I’ve always liked sport, but I preferred going to aerobic classes instead.

Anyway, at the beginning I thought it was really boring, but after a while I noticed it’s not so bad after all and I even enjoy it, so I started going to the gym every day after work hours for about 2 hours of workout.

My workouts always included aerobic and also weight lifting to strengthen my arms and back.

I guess I was too enthusiastic about it, because after a few weeks my right shoulder started to ache. At first I didn’t really pay any attention to it, but it got to a point I couldn’t do any weight lifting at all.

I went to the doctor and he said I probably have an infection and gave me some antibiotics. After my shoulder got better, I returned to the gym and started doing weight lifting again. I still felt the pain hadn’t disappeared completely, but I ignored it.

About two weeks later I couldn’t sleep on my right side anymore, and I woke up with a painful shoulder every time.

This time when I went to the doctor he sent me to do an ultrasound for the shoulder, and I found out I have a minor tear in the rotator cuff.

I went to physiotherapy for about two months to do ultrasound twice a week, but I was also told I must do exercises for rotator cuff strengthening if I want the pain to stop completely.

I did the two exercises the physiotherapist had shown me, but doing the same exercises for rotator cuff every day was boring, so I stopped.

And here comes the main reason I am starting this blog…

My shoulder is killing me, but I’m too lazy!

I know I must do the exercises for rotator cuff to strength my shoulder, or else the pain won’t go away, it will even get much worse.

From what I read over the internet in forums, rotator cuff injuries are very common, and a lot of people are just too lazy to do the exercises they need to do for rotator cuff strengthening.

I found over the internet a program with exercises for rotator cuff injuries. It’s called The Ultimate Rotator Cuff Training Guide. The program promises to eliminate the pain in 6 weeks, and is written by a physiotherapist, so it sounds promising.

I bought the guide, I’m going to go through it before I begin using it, and then I am going to write about my personal progress in the next 6 weeks with the program, and hopefully heal my rotator cuff once and for all.

Why am I doing this?

Commitment, commitment, commitment!

I’m sure that writing about the process will motivate me to complete the program.

Drive people to stop being lazy!

I didn’t think rotator cuff injuries are so common when I started looking for information over the internet, but it turns out many people suffer from different kinds of rotator cuff injuries and still find it hard to stick to the exercises they need to do in order to eliminate the pain.

I hope my blog will also motivate other people to start doing exercises for rotator cuff strengthening.

Molly