| The last thing on your mind when you have rotator | | | | worsening the injury. |
| cuff tendonitis is exercise but surprisingly that is exactly | | | | The inflammation needs to be treated with icepacks |
| what you need to do to fix it. But, before you reach | | | | and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as |
| for the gym bag and rush off to lift some weights, | | | | Ibuprofen. If the pain persists it may well be worthwhile |
| stop and read the rest of this article. | | | | having a cortisone injection into the muscle to reduce |
| The right sort of exercise can fix shoulder tendonitis. | | | | swelling. |
| The wrong sort of exercise can simply make it worse, | | | | Once the muscle has settled down it is important to |
| much worse. In fact if you over-exercise a badly | | | | start some shoulder specific exercises aimed at |
| inflamed shoulder tendon you can actually end up | | | | strengthening the muscles of the rotator cuff. These |
| making it worse or even snapping it which would put | | | | are low resistance exercises that isolate the rotator |
| you on a list waiting for surgery. | | | | cuff muscles and can easily be done at home. Going |
| Shoulder tendonitis or rotator cuff tendonitis is basically | | | | to the gym and pushing weights will not do anything for |
| irritation or swelling of the tendons of the rotator cuff. | | | | the rotator cuff muscles. These are small but |
| Its severity can vary depending on what caused the | | | | extremely important muscles that effectively hold the |
| problem in the first place but is generally the result of | | | | arm in place in the socket of the shoulder joint and |
| either wear and tear caused by aging or a repetitive | | | | they are extremely important to the overall integrity of |
| overhead action such as painting. It is an injury that is | | | | the joint. Weak rotator cuff muscles equal a weak |
| common to certain sportsmen and is sometimes | | | | shoulder no matter how strong the other muscles of |
| known as pitcher's shoulder or swimmer's shoulder. | | | | the shoulder are. |
| So what do you do if you have rotator cuff tendonitis. | | | | Rotator cuff therapy exercises are essential to |
| Firstly, don't despair. It is a common injury with roughly | | | | regaining a healthy pain free shoulder and should really |
| thirty percent of the population experiencing this at | | | | be compulsory for everyone over forty just to keep |
| some point in their lives. It is also relatively easy to sort | | | | our shoulders healthy. Unfortunately most of us aren't |
| out with the right treatment. | | | | even aware of the existence of the rotator cuff until |
| To begin with the treatment will involve resting the | | | | we get an injury and find out to our cost that we have |
| muscles and avoiding any movement that causes pain. | | | | been neglecting them. |
| These will almost certainly be any type of overhead | | | | I personally now do five or ten minutes of rotator cuff |
| movement or reaching action. You may need to | | | | exercises every day simply to make sure that I never |
| change the way that you work for a while in order to | | | | suffer from shoulder problems again. |
| rest the muscles but it is essential if you want to avoid | | | | |