| Don't leave it until you mess up your shoulder, start | | | | improve the overall performance of your shoulders. If |
| exercising your shoulder joints before something | | | | you do lift weights you'll discover that if you strengthen |
| happens. I'm not talking about pushing weights and | | | | the rotator cuff, you will be able to lift higher weights |
| exercising the already dominant muscles, what I'm | | | | Around a third of us will get a rotator cuff injury at |
| saying is wake up the muscles of the rotator cuff | | | | some stage. As you get older the risk becomes higher |
| before they let you down. | | | | so it is well worth exercising these muscles to help |
| Never mind waiting until you hurt your shoulder joint, | | | | keep your shoulder joint healthy. |
| you need to start exercising your shoulders before | | | | Now there is a fair chance that if you are already |
| anything goes wrong. I'm not talking about pushing | | | | reading this, it is because my advice has come too |
| weights and exercising the major muscles, what I'm | | | | late. I didn't even know about these muscles until I |
| saying is wake up the rotator cuff muscles before | | | | damaged my shoulder and started looking into the |
| something goes wrong. | | | | injury. Nearly all of us take our bodies for granted until |
| I recently damaged one of my rotator cuff muscles, | | | | something happens. I am no exception to that rule. |
| ended up with an impinged shoulder and was told that I | | | | Okay, if you have managed to hurt one of yoru |
| needed corrective surgery. It was then that I started to | | | | shoulders then shoulder rehabilitation exercises are |
| research the subject of shoulder injuries and | | | | going to feature somewhere in the treatment. |
| discovered that most of us ignore the rotator cuff until | | | | If you have undergone surgery then the advice you |
| it is too late, I include myself in that group. It was | | | | get will almost certainly be to get your shoulder moving |
| shoulder rehabilitation exercises that helped me to | | | | as soon as possible to avoid loss of movement or |
| recover from my rotator cuff injury without resorting | | | | frozen shoulder. Obviously, you need to take your |
| to surgery. | | | | doctor's advice on this, before starting exercsie. |
| A lot of shoulder rehabilitation exercises are aimed at | | | | Shoulder exercises will not involve great weights or |
| strengthening the rotator cuff, an important but often | | | | resistance. They tend if anything to use either no |
| forgotten group of muscles simply because they are | | | | weights or very small weights and will involve very |
| so key to shoulder health. | | | | gentle movements to start with that gradually increase |
| The shoulder joint is a shallow ball and socket joint held | | | | in terms of frequency and difficulty until the shoulder is |
| together by tendons, ligaments, cartiladge and | | | | back to normal. If you experience any disconfort at |
| seventeen different muscles. Its complex make up | | | | any time then you need to stop as this is usually an |
| allows us the wide range of movement that we enjoy | | | | indicator of damage being inflicted. |
| but also leaves the shoulder prone to injury. The | | | | It is important that before you start to exercise a |
| rotator cuff is a group of four muscles which help to | | | | damaged shoulder let it rest, treat any inflammation |
| keep the shoulder stable by pulling the arm into the | | | | and pain with pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs |
| socket and help to prevent dislocation. | | | | but most important of all is to allow it to heal properly. If |
| This group of muscles can become weak, through | | | | you ignore shoulder pain you are likely to make the |
| injury, wear and tear and neglect and when it does, it | | | | problem worse. A pulled or slightly damaged muscle |
| leaves us at greater risk of several different shoulder | | | | that is ignored can result in a major injury needing |
| injuries. Just a few quick and easy exercises aimed at | | | | surgery and months of rehab. |
| the rotator cuff can dramatically improve your shoulder | | | | Better still, look after your shoulders before they let |
| health in just ten minutes a day. | | | | you down and whatever you do keep up the |
| Even if the rotator cuff is healthy, building it up will | | | | exercises after your shoulder is fixed. |