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Talk to your doctor or physical therapist about which exercises will best help you meet your rehabilitation goals. Strength: Strengthening the muscles that support your shoulder will help keep your shoulder joint stable.
Do these every day. 1. Pendulum exercises. Move your body and let the movement of your body move your shoulder. Example: Rest your good hand on a table and bend over a little at your waist. Make circles with your hips/body which will cause your injured arm to make circles.
This shoulder rehabilitation program focuses on strengthening the muscles that support your shoulder to help keep your shoulder joint stable, relieve pain and prevent further injury.
Please bring your home exercise program booklet with you to each physical therapy visit so your exercise assignments can be updated each time. We ask that you perform your assigned exercises at home as instructed by your physical therapist in order to improve your functional outcome.
Rotator Cuff Home Exercise Program. This is a general conditioning program that provides a wide range of exercises. Range of motion - you should do this every day to help get your motion back. Flexibility - you should do this every day to help stretch tight tissues.
exercise Stand facing a mirror with the hands rotated so that the thumbs face forward. While keeping the shoulder blade ‘set’ and keeping the elbows straight, raise the arms forward and upward to shoulder level with a slight outward angle (30°). Pause for one second and slowly lower and repeat.
Rotator Cuff Home Exercise Program (Phase I) General Instructions: Perform 5 repetitions of each exercise and perform this entire home program 5 times daily.
o While performing exercises, keep shoulder rolled back and down o Avoid any of the exercises that cause pain or increased symptoms o Perform strengthening exercises on alternating days
This exercise is promoting proper scapular retraction and protraction while avoiding the common mis- conception of scapular elevation toward the 12 o'clock position.
The goals are to: Enhance glenohumeral caudal glide in positions of flexion or abduction. Increase physiological flexion or internal rotation. If a patient reaches a plateau: Change the vigor of the technique used. Change the technique. Direct treatment toward the relevant movement limitations.