Exercises for Rotator Cuff Blog

When I started the physiotherapy for my rotator cuff tear, my physiotherapist showed me few exercises to strengthen the rotator cuff and told me the ultrasound is just to ease the pain, but the exercises for rotator cuff are the important treatment.

Lazy as I was, I didn’t really pay attention to what he told me, and soon after the physiotherapy ended I started feeling worse and worse again.

I couldn’t move my shoulder as I used to, I couldn’t sleep on the right side and I couldn’t even move my computer mouse with my right hand (Yes, I’m using the left hand now…). …
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Rotator cuff impingement syndrome (also called shoulder impingement) is caused due to several problems:

Inflammation of the rotator cuff tendons, inflammation and/or swelling of the subacromial bursa that sits between the rotator cuff and the top of the shoulder or due to calcium deposits in tendons. …
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Rotator cuff tendonitis, also called shoulder tendonitis, is an inflammation (irritation and swelling) of the tendons in the shoulder.

Rotator cuff tendonitis is a very common injury caused by overuse or overload of the shoulder.

Tendons are more susceptible to injuries than muscles when stressed beyond their limits, and they also need more time to heal because they have less blood supply than muscles. …
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Doing exercises for the rotator cuff for a week or two is just not enough. Many people are not even aware of the importance of strong rotator cuff muscles, until they injure one.

There are Several Things You Can Do to Prevent Future Rotator Cuff Injuries

• Strengthen your rotator cuff. The exercises for rotator cuff strengthening will help stabilize your shoulder joint and prevent injuries …
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When I come out form the ultrasound examination knowing I have a tear in my rotator cuff I was in panic and I literally started to cry to my friend on the phone.

I had no idea what kind of treatment the orthopedist is going to determine for me. …
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This issue is close to my heart because as I wrote in the first post, I have a “small full thickness tear of the Supraspinatus” (I just quoted my ultrasound results). The tear is only 6.7 mm but it’s still very painful.

I wanted to know more details about my rotator cuff injury, so I gathered all the information I read about rotator cuff tear and I decided to write here briefly what is a rotator cuff tear and how it can be treated. …
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When I started the physiotherapy for me rotator cuff tear I used to enter to orthopedists forums and read what other people who suffer from rotator cuff injury ask, because I wanted to learn more about my problem.

I noticed that a lot of the questions were being asked in different variations, so I collected the questions I think are the most common and the most important ones.

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As I read more and more about rotator cuff injuries I come across some very interesting facts about the shoulder and the rotator cuff, so I decided to gather them all in one post for you:

1.  Almost eight million people in the US will suffer from a shoulder injury this year and over half of them will be a direct result of injuring the rotator cuff
2. About 6 million people in the U.S. seek medical care each year for shoulder problems …
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Today I want to write about rotator cuff injury types because, apparently, it’s very easy to injure one of the rotator cuff muscles or tendons, and a lot of people are not even aware of how easily it can happen.

A Rotator Cuff Injury Can Be Classified As

• Acute rotator cuff injury as a result of a sudden and powerful movement (this can include falling, paddling the kayak etc)
• Chronic rotator cuff injury as a result of an activity that aggravates the muscle …
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I’m sure that if you are reading my blog tight now, you are suffering from a rotator cuff injury and the doctor probably already explained to you briefly what the rotator cuff is.

Anyway, I want to share with you exactly what the rotator cuff is and how important its function is to our shoulder, for better understanding of the exercises for rotator cuff strengthening. …
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