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In my clinic I see a lot of people with acute shoulder pains brought on usually after an increase in activity, sport or training and most I beleive have a reactive cuff tendinopathy. Isometric exercises for those non therapists reading, is when a muscle/tendon is asked to contract but there is no movement of the joint and so no change in the length of the muscle/tendon, just like when you flex your pecs and biceps in the mirror after a shower… No!!! just me that does that then, ok moving on…! Although recently they are gaining some popularity and credibility again.
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This is a shame as I find it very effective in reducing a lot of shoulder pains in many people that it rightly deserves my No 1 spot despite them being perceived as boring and simplistic nature.
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Ok, I’m cheating here with my No 1 exercise as it’s really three exercises, but the simple, basic isometric exercise is too often over looked and under used. Ok disclaimers done, let’s get started… No 1: Rotator Cuff Isometrics And talking of function I’m sure some of the functional movement nazi’s will have a few comments on these exercises ! It seems these days you just cant just give an exercise to get someone stronger, its has to be bloody ‘functional’ all the freaking time! I am also NOT saying these exercises are the best for injury prevention or any performance or functional improvements. Your clientele maybe different, and although they can be used with a lot of shoulder problems they may not be suitable for some. However, they are not the most exciting, fancy, or cutting edge exercises, as I tend to find with most things in this profession you cant go wrong if you focus on doing the simple this well, and leave the fancy shit for the guru’s and show offs!īefore I get started let me make it clear that I have come up with this list based on ‘ MY’ experience and these are the five exercises I find ‘ MYSELF’ regularly prescriping due to the shoulder issues ‘ I’ encounter. Finally they can be adapted and progressed easily. Next, they are simple, easy to coach/teach and require little or no equipment. So why have I have chosen these five exercises? Well firstly, I seem to use them a lot with different patient groups, with different presenations of shoulder pain, so I class them as multi purpose exercises. However, there are some exercises that I do seem to find myself regularly falling back on, so I thought I’d write a little bit about them, and for a change, I thought I would base this piece more on my clinical experience and opinion rather than just what research and evidence says (although it always influences my choices and is never far away), and f or the sake of brevity I thought it best to keep it to just five exercises. But this is a tricky question to answer as there are so many different variables that make me choose an exercise. As a so called shoulder ‘expert’ I often get asked what are my favourite rehab exercises for them.