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Rotator Cuff Physical Therapy Can Heal Your Cuff Tear Fastest
After tearing my rotator cuff quite badly last year and ending up with an imipinged shoulder I have discovered that rotator cuff physical therapy exercises are the quickest way to get your shoulder back to its pre injury state. This is equally true whether you are aiming to just speed up recovery time or get over surgery.
Physical therapy will always form part of the recovery process for rotator cuff. It is usually tried before resorting to surgery as most shoulder problems will respond to shoulder specific exercises. The exceptions to this are a severe shoulder impingement or a full thickness rotator cuff tear both of which may require surgery followed by a period of recuperation before beginning physical therapy.
It is vital with any shoulder injury that you let your shoulder rest properly for some time until any swelling and pain have subsided. Any pain that you feel with specific movements is usually a sign that you are doing more damage to the tendons and muscles. Resting your shoulder properly may well mean using a sling, avoiding driving and will almost certainly mean changing your day to day activities to avoid any movements that cause you pain. Along with the rest, use non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to bring down the inflammation. Inflammation of the tendons and muscles is what causes the majority of pain in rotator cuff injuries and bringing down the inflammation is key to a successful recovery.
When the pain and inflammation are under control it is essential to begin shoulder specific exercies that are aimed at rehabilitating this group of muscles and strengthening the shoulder. Physical therapy exercises will not be the general weight bearing shoulder exercises that we use to build muscle as these tend to focus on the main muscles of the shoulder and avoid the rotator cuff.
Rotator cuff physical therapy will involve exercises with little or no weight or resistance often relying just on the natural resistance of the body to achieve results. Simply lifting the weight of your arm is often enough load to achieve the desired effect at first, moving on to small weights as the muscles gets better. Any exercise routine should include a series of gentle stretches to avoid further injury to the damaged muscle, followed by stabilising and strengthening exercises. You will be surprised how quickly your shoulder can return to normal once you start developing the rotator cuff muscle.
In my case, I managed to fix a bad shoulder rotator cuff tear and shoulder impingement, which I was told would require surgery, in just eight weeks using rotator cuff physical therapy exercises.
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