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?
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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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Shoulder Mobility – Curing the Hunchback

December 31, 2011

Computer Related Shoulder Pain

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

  1. Take periodic breaks – get up and move … walk around.
  2. 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.
  3. Relax, meditate, breathe deep.

Shoulder Mobility – Take 2 and Call Me in the Morning

There’s nothing hard about this shoulder exercise .. except making yourself get up and do it.  So do 2 things:
  1. Watch this video
  2. Give it a try
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So … did you do it?  How do your shoulders feel now?

 

Magnetic Therapy for Shoulder Pain ?

December 6, 2011

Here’s the basic claim:  Permanent magnets produce a magnetostatic field that can have beneficial health benefits.  Watch this video and then keep reading.

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How true is the claim?  Can magnetic therapy help your chronic shoulder pain?  Here’s what I found:

  1. Controlling Chronic Pain With Magnetic Therapy – found this article on About.com and was very excited … until I saw the author had a vested interested in promoting magnetic therapy - Ron Lawrence, MD. is the President of the North American Academy of Magnetic Therapy and co-author of Magnet Therapy – The Pain Cure Alternative
  2. Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View – a much less flattering view of the available research – also by a doctor - Stephen Barrett, M.D
  3. The Claim: Magnetic Therapy Can Ease Arthritis Pain – article from the New York Times

Will Magnetic Therapy Help Your Shoulder Pain?

Like most issues, the answer depends on who you ask.  Search Magnetic Therapy for Pain and see what comes up… a wide variety of articles.  Here’s what I discovered:
  • Pro alternative medicine websites claim magnetic therapy helps relieve chronic pain from a variety of ailments.
  • Other websites are skeptical of the pain reducing benefits.
  • What do you think?

Escape Shoulder Impingement Pain

October 22, 2011

Sharing the Rotater Love

We love our customers and try to provide them with a great shoulder rehab / prehab product and shoulder information that will help during their shoulder rehabilitation.  These kinds of emails make our day :)

I Like the Rotater

I Like the Rotater

“In my desperate attempt to escape shoulder impingement pain, I was ready to try anything that worked. It was my lucky day when I stumbled upon Chris Melton, the Rotater guy. When I ordered the Rotater, I got great service from this company – with much personal concern and friendliness. But the best part is the health journey I started by reading their fabulous FaceBook posts.”

A.G. Austin, TX

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Teri Hatcher Still Frustrated with Frozen Shoulder?

October 11, 2011

Back in Oct. 2010 on the Jimmy Kimmel show, Teri Hatcher revealed she had a frozen shoulder.  As recently as this past May (2011), Teri is still having a difficult time as noted in this article – Teri Hatcher hits rock bottom with frozen shoulder.

What is frozen shoulder?

Sometimes it’s called adhesive capsulitis …. this video might help explain what it is and how to treat it.

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The Dreaded Frozen Shoulder Solution – Manipulation Under Anesthesia

Here’s what happens:

  • You are sedated
  • Your doctor performs all the shoulder stretches you’ve been avoiding during physical therapy due to the pain
  • The doctor is not inhibited by your screams of pain and forces the joint to “un-freeze”

A video is worth more than a thousand words:

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The Rotater for Frozen Shoulder Relief

Many of our clients have had great results in overcoming frozen shoulder by adding the Rotater to their shoulder health program.  These are their words:

Thank heavens for my discovery of The Rotater. In therapy, the trained therapist could manipulate my arm to keep/increase rotation but on my own I wasn’t able to do that very well at all. Therapy, at $80/session, was getting expensive yet I knew I needed to keep up the rotational manipulation so that when the “thawing” began I would still have retained as much shoulder/arm function as possible.  read more

Another happy Rotater customer:

I was diagnosed with Adhesive Capsulitis and only 50-60% of normal external and internal rotation.  Using the Rotater daily and combined with physical therapy I have progressed to 100% external rotation and 95% internal rotation in less than nine weeks.  I have no pain and am back to playing tennis.”  read more

Physical Therapist comment

“The Rotater itself has proved invaluable to my patients’ shoulders and their subsequent recovery. It has been used for a variety of overuse, sports, orthopedic, and post-surgical conditions to date, and on a large group of patients as well. Everyone from grandma with adhesive capsulitis to the major league baseball pitcher has reaped its benefits, and I look forward to many more.” read more

Is the Rotater “right” for you?  I don’t know, but with a 100% Money Back Guarantee, what do you have to lose?  Put the Rotater to the test and see for yourself.

P.S. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Teri Hatcher?

We’d love to get a Rotater to Teri.  We’ve tried to make contact a couple of times, but no response yet.  If you know how to reach her, please let us know.  Thanks :)

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