04th January 2010
Exercise is probably the last thing on your mind if you have a shoulder impingement but surprisingly the right type of exercise can help to sort out the problem and bring back full pain free movement. The important thing is when you do them.
It is impo...
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14th December 2009
I had the misfortune to tear one of the tendons in my left rotator cuff a few months back. It was very simple. I was helping a friend put up a timber garage and when the wind caught one of the pieces I instinctively reached out to stop it falling. That wa...
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10th December 2009
The rotator muscle is the most common source of shoulder pain. This is a group of four muscles that help to stabilise the shoulder joint by pulling the head of the humerus (upper arm bone) into the shoulder socket. When you damage the rotator cuff muscl...
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08th December 2009
Up until quite recently I thought I would never play golf again and, having been a life long fan of the game, I was not too happy about that. Rotator cuff exercises helped to rehabilitate my shoulder and got me playing golf again.
I managed to tear my ...
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08th December 2009
Following a shoulder operation I was told that it could be up to twelve to eighteen months before my shoulder was healed and even then there was no guarantee of a complete recovery but four months later I am playing golf and feeling fitter than ever.
S...
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07th December 2009
Just a few months ago I thought that I would never play golf again. What started out as a sore shoulder had deteriorated until I was in constant pain, I lost any strength in my shoulder and couldn't lift my arm up to shoulder height yet alone swing a golf...
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04th December 2009
I had to give up golf last year after damaging my shoulder. I had hoped that it was going to be a short rest from the fairways but as my shoulder deteriorated I soon began to realise that I would be away from all but the nineteenth hole for quite a long ...
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