Rotator Cuff Injury Exercises -When Is The Best Time To Start?

<h1>Rotator Cuff Injury Exercises -When Is The Best Time To Start?</h1>Author: <a title="Nick Bryant" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/nick-bryant/219027.htm">Nick Bryant</a> Rotator cuff injuries are more common than any other shoulder injury. Nearly eight million Americans are going to suffer from a shoulder problem this year and around 60% of these will be a rotator cuff injury. So when  should you be doing rotator cuff injury exercises. I suppose that the most obvious answer is when you have damaged this group of muscles but if a few more of us thought about them before we damaged them, there would be much shorter queues at the doctors. If you do any kind of sports that involve overhead movement you are at greater risk of injury. Javelin throwers, Baseball Players and tennis players are all at risk simply because this group of muscles is put at most risk when your arms are above shoulder height. Add in a sporting activity to that and you have a recipe for problems especially if you never exercise the rotator cuff. Does your work or even a hobby include working above shoulder height? Rotator cuff injury is a common injury for painters and decorators or plasterers. Are you over forty? If so then you are more at risk. As we get older this group of muscles weaken through lack of use and then suddenly we'll decide to work them hard unexpectedly. Through a ball with the grand kids, start playing sport again as we have a mid life crisis. The muscles just are not ready for it and the sudden exercise usually causes problems. Five minuets of feeling young again can leave you in pain for weeks. If you fit any of the above groups then you are already at risk and need to start exercising your rotator cuff on a daily basis. The great news is that it will not take long on a daily basis and you will hardly work up a sweat. These are small muscles that you will exercise with eother no weight or very small weights. Most of rotator cuff exercises for both damaged and healthy muscles are Pilates basedand involve slow gentle exercises that are more about control than intensity The main difference if you have already damaged your rotator cuff is that you need to let it heal before you start any kind of exercise. If you experience pain when you raise your arm, or reach our for something then you probably have a rotator cuff injury. If reaching behind you or lying down causes pain in yoru shoulder then it is probably too late to start preventative exercise and too soon to start therapeutic exercise. Rotator cuff injuries are painful when you move because the muscles get pinched when they are inflamed and any movement is causing more damage. Rest the injury, treat the inflammation and manage the pain before you start any kind of exercise. You will probably do the same exercises to repair a shoulder as you will to prevent shoulder problems so if you haven't yet hurt your shoulder, there is no better time to start. After all, you have a one in three chance of a rotator cuff injury and  just five or ten minutes a day is all it will take to keep your shoulders healthy and pain free. If I could turn back the clock to pre-injury, I would be exercising these muscles on a daily basis.About the Author: If you want to know what <a href="http://www.myrotatorcuffcure.blogspot.com"> rotator cuff injury exercises</a> helped me to fix my shoulder without surgery check out my story at

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Rotator cuff injuries are more common than any other shoulder injury. Nearly eight million Americans are going to suffer from a shoulder problem this year and around 60% of these will be a rotator cuff injury. So when should you be doing rotator cuff injury exercises.

I suppose that the most obvious answer is when you have damaged this group of muscles but if a few more of us thought about them before we damaged them, there would be much shorter queues at the doctors.

If you do any kind of sports that involve overhead movement you are at greater risk of injury. Javelin throwers, Baseball Players and tennis players are all at risk simply because this group of muscles is put at most risk when your arms are above shoulder height. Add in a sporting activity to that and you have a recipe for problems especially if you never exercise the rotator cuff.

Does your work or even a hobby include working above shoulder height? Rotator cuff injury is a common injury for painters and decorators or plasterers.

Are you over forty? If so then you are more at risk. As we get older this group of muscles weaken through lack of use and then suddenly we'll decide to work them hard unexpectedly. Through a ball with the grand kids, start playing sport again as we have a mid life crisis. The muscles just are not ready for it and the sudden exercise usually causes problems. Five minuets of feeling young again can leave you in pain for weeks.

If you fit any of the above groups then you are already at risk and need to start exercising your rotator cuff on a daily basis. The great news is that it will not take long on a daily basis and you will hardly work up a sweat. These are small muscles that you will exercise with eother no weight or very small weights. Most of rotator cuff exercises for both damaged and healthy muscles are Pilates basedand involve slow gentle exercises that are more about control than intensity

The main difference if you have already damaged your rotator cuff is that you need to let it heal before you start any kind of exercise. If you experience pain when you raise your arm, or reach our for something then you probably have a rotator cuff injury. If reaching behind you or lying down causes pain in yoru shoulder then it is probably too late to start preventative exercise and too soon to start therapeutic exercise.

Rotator cuff injuries are painful when you move because the muscles get pinched when they are inflamed and any movement is causing more damage. Rest the injury, treat the inflammation and manage the pain before you start any kind of exercise.

You will probably do the same exercises to repair a shoulder as you will to prevent shoulder problems so if you haven't yet hurt your shoulder, there is no better time to start. After all, you have a one in three chance of a rotator cuff injury and just five or ten minutes a day is all it will take to keep your shoulders healthy and pain free.

If I could turn back the clock to pre-injury, I would be exercising these muscles on a daily basis.

If you want to know what rotator cuff injury exercises helped me to fix my shoulder without surgery check out my story at http://www.myrotatorcuffcure.blogspot.com

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