Health blog Category: Shoulder Pain
Rotator Cuff Strains: Causes, Symptoms, and Effective Treatments for Quick Recovery
The rotator cuff is a group of muscles that help stabilize our shoulder within it’s socket as we do overhead movements. There are four muscles that make up the rotator cuff, each muscle has a different action and all must be equally strong and flexible in order to avoid a number of different shoulder injuries.
Shoulder Injuries
Rotator cuff strains are common in professions that require a lot of repetitive overhead movements and rotator cuff tears are common in sport athletes who participate in overhead motions for example baseball, tennis, and basketball.
Read full blogCauses of Shoulder Discomfort
Shoulder injuries are one of the most common injuries. Injury or overuse are the most common causes of shoulder discomfort. Some of the most common ailments related to the shoulder include tight/overworked muscles, tendonitis, impingement, and joint stiffness. These not only may cause pain, it may also cause weakness, and limit your ability to drive, prepare your evening dinners, reach into your overhead cabinets and other everyday activities.
Common Causes of Shoulder Injury
- Traumatic injury/dislocation
- Weak muscles
- Repetitive movement
- Poor shoulder mechanics
- Post Surgery
Shoulder pain and discomfort can present itself in many different ways.
Read full blogWhy is My Shoulder Pinching?
Your shoulder is quite the intricate system, with multiple joints and muscles working together to keep things moving smoothly. But when those muscles of the rotator cuff get caught in a pinch between bones, like the humerus and the acromion process, it can spell trouble. This pinching is a sign you may be dealing with Shoulder Impingement. Initially, it might just feel like a twinge, but over time, it can lead to inflammation and even tears in those muscles.
Read full blogWhat Type of Frozen Shoulder Do You Have?
What frozen shoulder is, depends on what type of frozen shoulder you have.
Primary
Primary frozen shoulder is an idiopahtic (no clear cause) condition. It has a gradual onset and can take over a year to fully resolve.
Physical therapy can help with this form, but in general, it has to run its course.
Primary is:
- Less common.
Rehabilitation vs. Surgery: Rotator Cuff Tears
Regardless of the time of year, we see plenty of patients complaining of shoulder pain. Most shoulder pain occurs following repetitive movements. These movements cause wear and tear that breaks down the rotator cuff tendons.
What Is The Rotator Cuff?
The rotator cuff is made up of four small muscles that control movement and provide stability of the shoulder joint. Collectively, these muscles are referred to as the ‘rotator cuff’.
Read full blogShoulder Tendonitis Defined
Shoulder tendonitis is a very common problem for every age group and one we treat often at Loudoun Sports Therapy Center. Tendonitis is inflammation of the tendon that attaches the muscle to the bone. With respect to the shoulder, the muscles that are most frequently inflamed are your rotator cuff and bicep tendon. Our patients will typically complain about pain along the front of the shoulder. Patients often complaint of pain with overhead activities, lifting items, reaching behind their back or pain when washing their hair.
Read full blogWhich Muscles Stabilize Our Shoulders?
The rotator cuff is a group of muscles that help stabilize our shoulder within it’s socket as we do overhead movements. There are four muscles that make up the rotator cuff, each muscle has a different action and all must be equally strong and flexible in order to avoid a number of different shoulder injuries.
Those muscles are:
- Supraspinatus
- Infraspinatus
- Teres minor
- Subscapularis
Shoulder Injuries
Rotator cuff strains are common in professions that require a lot of repetitive overhead movements and are common in sport athletes who participate in overhead motions for example:
- baseball
- tennis
- basketball.
Frozen Shoulder
Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition in the shoulder that causes the capsule that surrounds the shoulder joint to become inflamed and freeze up causing pain and loss of mobility.
What Causes Frozen Shoulder?
- Inflammation to the joint capsule or surrounding soft tissue structures
- Injury or trauma causing lack of movement of the joint
- Random onset
What are the symptoms of frozen shoulder?
Read full blog3 Most Common Shoulder Injuries
Shoulder pain and weakness are some of the most common reasons people seek help from a medical professional. The design of the shoulder as a ball and socket joint whereas the rounded head of the humerus articulates with the cup-like depression of the scapula giving it a wide degree of movement is why the shoulder is so commonly injured. This joint is held together by an extensive group of muscles and ligaments that can be weakened by certain types of repetitive forces.
Read full blogRotator Cuff Injuries in Baseball Players
Rotator cuff tears are a common baseball injury, especially for pitchers. Your rotator cuff keeps your arm in its socket. It’s made up of a group of four muscles that combine as a tendon to help rotate and move your arm. This is why pitchers often fall victim to this injury.
TWO TYPES OF TEARS:
- Partial
- Full-Thickness
A tear happens when one or more of your tendons tears and becomes either fully or partially detached from the upper arm bone, called the humerus.
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