Shoulder Pain Relief for Office Workers
February 1, 2012
Poor posture…it’s the curse of sitting at a desk all day (or all night). BUT, that’s your job … SO you get shoulder and neck pain. What can you do?
Can Relief from Shoulder Pain be this Simple?
Researchers in Denmark have discovered that performing a simple resistance band exercise, done for 2 minutes a day can “significantly” reduce shoulder and neck pain. Wow!!
- What is this “magic” shoulder exercise?
- What do you need to perform this pain relieving shoulder exercise?
Pretty simple stuff. No complicated exercise equipment. It looks like you can do it anywhere, anytime. BUT … does it really work? Does performing this shoulder exercise for a total of 10 minutes a week really reduce neck and shoulder pain? YOU tell me !! Give it a try and let me know what your results are.
More Great Shoulder Information Like This Article
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Rotator Cuff Tears – DukeHealth.org
How can I properly train my shoulders? – sportize.me
Baseball Shoulder Flexibility and Stretches – Video
Rotator Cuff Stretch & Strengthening – Active Isolated Stretching – Video
Sports Medicine in 140 Characters – Dr. David Geier
Injured Shoulders Affects Workouts, Fat Burning and Movements – Mark Dilworth
Balance Your Shoulder Strength and Build Power – Chad Waterbury
6 facts about Forward Head Posture – The PT Project
Frozen Shoulder – Video
Swimmers: Eight strength training mistakes to avoid – Sayco Performance Athletics
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Scapular Stretch for Shoulder Mobility
January 21, 2012
Most people tend to think of their shoulder in simple terms. I mean it’s just the joint where your arm bone ( the humerus ) meets your body … right? Well, yes …. in the most basic sense. To be honest, your shoulder is really made up of 4 joints:
- the Glenohumeral Joint
- the Acromioclavicular Joint
- the Sternoclavicular Joint
- the Scapulothoracic Joint
So, increasing the mobility of any one of these joints will increase the mobility of the entire shoulder region. In this video, Bucknell University Strength Coach, Jerry Shreck demonstrates how he helps his athletes increase their shoulder mobility by increasing their scapular mobility. He is working directly on the Scapulothoracic joint in this video:
To learn more about this shoulder stretching technique, please read Coach Shreck’s article – Manual Stretch to Increase Scapular Mobility.
More Shoulder Videos and Articles
Here are some of the most recent shoulder rehab and performance articles and videos we’ve posted on our Facebook page. Please join our community of active followers and contributors.
Cross Body, Shoulder, External Rotation – Video
PT-Supervised Exercises Trumps Home Rehab for Improved Shoulder Function Post-Surgery, Study Finds – ptproductsonline.com
Strength Exercise of the Week: Prone External Rotation – Eric Cressey
Tips to ensure (hopefully) a successful outcome after surgery – Dr. David Geier
Baseball Strength and Conditioning Programs: How Much Rotator Cuff Work is Too Much? – Eric Cressey
How to Treat Shoulder Injuries When You Can’t Get to a Doctor – Video – Dr. James Hubbard
Rotator Cuff Tears – Dr. John Post
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Injection Therapy: A Musculoskeletal Panacea? – ptsportswellness.wordpress.com
The Rotator Cuff, Shoulder Injuries in Paddle Sports – Physiobench
Bamboo Bar Bench Press – Video
Exercises You Should Be Doing: Standing Half Press – Tony Gentilcore
Shoulder Exercises: Circles and Open Book – Video – Erson Religioso
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Shoulder Mobility – Curing the Hunchback
December 31, 2011
The Hunchback and Shoulder Pain
You do it! You know you do it! I do it, too …. I’m probably doing it right now … yeah, the “late night, I’m tired as crap, gotta keep working on this article” hunched back.
As we become more engaged online, we are becoming less engaged offline … less aware of our posture. It doesn’t matter what your addiction is:
- surfing the web via your desktop computer
- texting on your phone
- cruising along with your ipod
- chilling out on the latest tablet
…it’s all the same…you’ve become a hunchback. Your shoulders are rolled forward, your head is down and you have some seriously tense and painful shoulders.
How to Avoid Computer Related Shoulder Pain
- Take periodic breaks – get up and move … walk around.
- Learn to stretch those tight shoulder muscles – there’s got to be a million videos on YouTube demonstrating some of the shoulder stretches you can do almost anywhere .. even at your desk.
- Relax, meditate, breathe deep.
Shoulder Mobility – Take 2 and Call Me in the Morning
- Watch this video
- Give it a try
The One Arm Shoulder Press
November 12, 2011
I read a lot. I think reading is important … especially when you have a web-based business like ours. There are a wide variety of topics that interest me ..
- business
- marketing
- technology
- shoulder rehab and performance
- fitness
- kettlebells
- weightlifting
On any given day, I’m scouring the internet in search of information. Yesterday, my search led to an article by Dan John, titled “The One Arm Press”. Dan is something of a renaissance man … having a wide variety of information on a number of topics from religion to physical performance. To make a long story shorter, Dan’s article inspired me to post a video on YouTube showing a way to do the one arm press that allows you to easily and quickly add or remove weight so you can do both ascending or descending sets without spending lots of money. Here’s the video….
Be sure to stop by Dan’s blog and read his article on the one arm press to see why he thinks it’s such a great full-body exercise. Give my version of the one arm press a try and let me know what you think.
The Rotater Goes to Puerto Rico for the ACA Sports Symposium
August 5, 2011
This is a guest post by Dr. Jennifer Illes who was one of the featured speakers at this year’s sports symposium of the American Chiropractic Association.
During the last weekend of July, Dr. Jennifer Illes, a chiropractic physician from Florida demonstrated the use and benefits of the “Rotater” at the annual ACA (American Chiropractic Association) sports symposium.
Dr. Illes Includes the Rotater in her Presentation
Over 300 sports physicians from all over the USA, Canada, and Mexico attended. Dr. Illes who teaches clinical scinece courses at National University of Health Sciences in Florida, presented both a lecture and lab about scapular dyskinesis. She implemented the Rotater while explaining how to stretch the GH capsule, and how during the rehabiliative phase of treatment the Rotater could be used for increasing strength of the shoulder mobilizers. The audience was impressed with this invention, and they came up after the presentation to demo it. Nothing but positive feedback for the ROTATER!!!
The ACA Council on Sports Injuries and Physical Fitness is a professional and educational non-profit organization with a growing membership of active chiropractors. The ACA Sports Council attracts doctors from across the U.S. and around the world, who desire to become more directly involved with developing and promoting the treatment of athletes.
