Shoulder Impingement Exercises

There are a lot of people around the world that is suffering from shoulder impingement. It affects them in many ways. Doing the dishes or washing the clothes can be painful and sometimes it can ache for days. To prevent this from happening, the best way to ensure a quick recovery is by performing shoulder impingement exercises. To ensure that you are doing the exercises correctly, talk to a physical therapist as they will teach the right exercise techniques. Sometimes, if you don't do the exercises correctly, it could cause more problems and prolong your injury.

The first sets of exercises you need to perform are stretching exercises. Stretching will make your muscle looser and prevent your humeral head (the shoulder ball) compressing the glenoid (socket) joint too much. As a result, there is more space for your shoulder joint to move around and prevent any impingement of the nerve, tendon and muscles. In addition, when you stretch, don't stretch into too much pain because you may cause a tear around the shoulder muscle. Instead, perform slow and gentle stretches.

The second sets of exercises you need to do are strengthening exercises. Depending on the severity of the pain and weakness of the muscle, you can hold a weight into your hands. If not, there are plenty of other ways to strengthen your arms like purchasing a pulley system or use theraband. A theraband is a rubber device where you can use it to stretch and strengthen your shoulder muscles.

The third sets of exercises are proprioception exercises or balance exercises. These are normally done when your muscles are not very painful. You need to retrain your muscles so it can perform normal movements easily. When you injury a muscle, you lose some of your nerve endings. This nerve gives your brain information on where the arm, shoulder is moving. Performing proprioceptive exercises will retrain these nerves to perform normal movements.

Overall, it is best to keep persevere with these shoulder impingement exercises. If you don't do it, then your recovery times will decrease and could delay rehabilitation and increase tissue damage. The shoulder joint is one of the most complex joint of the body. It needs careful attention so that it won't get damaged.