Shoulder Stretch
Start by lying on your side with your shoulder at 90 degrees and your elbow at 90 degrees and gently push your arm towards the yoga mat and hold for 30 seconds. Repeat three sets, do it twice per day.
Start by lying on your side with your shoulder at 90 degrees and your elbow at 90 degrees and gently push your arm towards the yoga mat and hold for 30 seconds. Repeat three sets, do it twice per day.
This is a stretch for the supraspinatus muscle. You’re going to step into the door with the left foot, throw the towel behind the back with the left hand and reach up behind with the right arm and pull the towel upwards with the right shoulder propped up against the corner of the doorway. You…
Insights from Wil Seto of INSYNC Physio When we hear “shooting shoulder pain,” it might conjure up dramatic images—but for many active individuals, especially those new to sports like boxing, it’s a frustrating and mysterious reality. In a recent interview, Mark Bossert sat down with Wil Seto, Sports Physiotherapist and Owner of INSYNC Physio, to…
Shoulder pain can be caused by many things going on with the shoulder complex. One of the things that can cause shoulder pain is an impingement problem of the rotator cuff due to a tight posterior deltoid muscle or posterior shoulder capsule. To stretch this out find the angle that it is most tight in…
Frozen shoulder affects the joint capsule – a water tight compartment that holds the synovial fluid of the glenohumeral joint. A build up of scar tissue forms within and around the joint capsule, and restricts the shoulder’s physical ability to move without pain. Some of the tissue that surrounds the capsule forms two ligaments called…
Using a ball lie on your stomach with your inner core engaged by pulling the waistline up from the pant line. Keep the core engaged the entire time. Start with bringing the elbow up so the arm is at 90 degrees with the fist clenched. Keeping the upper arm and wrist still bring the forearm…
What is it? Injury to the rotator cuff tendon(s) when there is narrowing between the head of the humerus and the coraco-acromial arch (the arcomion & the coracoacromial ligament attaching to the coracoid process) thus causing subacromial crowding. [1,2,3,4] Resulting in micro trauma, ischemia, swelling / inflammation further impingement Primarily affects the supraspinatus tendon but…