Shoulder exercise should be used when you are able to complete the movements required sufficiently without significant discomfort or pain production. These activities involve more complicated shoulder mechanics and recruit a greater proportion of muscles surrounding the area than isolated exercises for specific muscles. The more you are able to complete exercise like this, the Read more about Shoulder Pain: Exercise to Build Resiliency[…]

Early management of shoulder complaints is similar to other issues that patients present with: create as much shoulder movement as possible while avoiding pain generation when you are able to. As noted in the first posting, the shoulder is a highly mobile joint that is built to create a lot of movement — so maintaining Read more about Shoulder Pain: Reintroducing Movement[…]

Shoulder pain is a frequent complaint for patients that can present in a number of different ways. For example, some patients experience significant limitations caused by their pain, others have low-grade discomfort that lingers across days, and still others experience more sporadic episodes of discomfort that come and go, but are no less limiting in Read more about Shoulder Pain: An Introduction[…]