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What Is The Best Exercise For Rotator Cuff Injury?

The rotator cuff is a bundle of muscles and tendons surrounding the shoulder joint and helps keep it in place. If you experience a rotator cuff injury, there can be a dull ache in your shoulder, affecting your arm’s usage. If you have symptoms of a rotator cuff injury, it is best to manage it right away. At Park Physical Therapy Merrick NY, we can help you manage those symptoms and return to your daily activities with the help and improvement of physical therapy by improving the muscles surrounding the shoulder joint. Contact us for more information and to schedule an appointment today!

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Symptoms:

There are specific symptoms of this injury that you can focus on and target on your right away. Some symptoms/pain that is associated with a rotator cuff injury can:

  • Have a description of a dull ache deep in the shoulder
  • Disturb sleep 
  • Make it difficult to lift your shoulder to brush your hair or reach behind your back
  • Be accompanied by arm weakness

Treatment: 

There are many different ways to treat a rotator cuff injury. Still, the exercises are, therefore, to focus on the best way to strengthen it and make sure there is good flexibility in the recovery process. Having the focus of strengthening and making sure it is as flexible as possible, you have a higher chance of getting back to a healthy lifestyle more quickly. Park Physical Therapy Merrick NY can show you the best treatment for your injury; see down below:

  • Pendulum Swing: swinging your arm back and forth and then side to side, you can place your other hand on the wall or table for support
  • Cross-Body Stretch: bring your injured arm across your body and stretch that shoulder
  • Posterior stretch: taking your injured arm and crosses your body and having it rest on the opposite shoulder and pushing it lightly, making sure you are feeling a stretch 

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At Park Physical Therapy Merrick NY, we will strive to offer the best possible physical therapy services to ensure success for our patients. We want to make sure we are developing the best possible planes that meet each patient’s needs. Contact us for more information and to schedule an appointment at Park Physical Therapy Merrick NY.