hi I'm Bob Sean physical therapist
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course Bob but having a lot of questions
about the rotator cuff and a lot of
people are trying to get the rotator
cuff to heal or there's I actually my
brother this weekend was asking me
because he's been having some pain
shoulder pain he doesn't want to develop
a rotator cuff charity so he was asking
me what things he should do and so I
came up with a list excellent alright so
the first thing you wanna do when a lot
of people do by the way this is going to
help it heal too if you okay it's gonna
help heal or prevent right the first
thing you want to do make sure you don't
do it is reach to the back of your car
let's say you're in the driver's seat I
do this all the time but yeah you reach
back to the back that really puts your
shoulder under a lot of stress you bet
it's really or reaching back here it's a
similar movement to the shoulder to tuck
that shirt under get that big fat wall
out of your pocket I second thing is you
want to avoid put in the shoulder in the
same position and this is going to be
very hard for certain occupations I
would say like a hairdresser they're
like this right prolonged a painter
right I don't know what what are they
gonna do bread I think that why doing
that you used to paint yeah well do you
have a brush it again you gotta get high
something I was gonna have to do it
where you get off over ladders you can
play no where I get a different
occupation but okay I'm working with
someone right now this got that exact
same from mechanic Pat mentioned the
teacher yeah any overhead stuff drywall
hanger I don't know how they would avoid
teacher working on a whiteboard white or
not in fact not a does one is argon the
other this is the big one Brad number
three what is it you said we just
sweeping I can't tell you how many
people I have that was
- rotator cuff and they come in and all
of my shoulders so sore and they woke up
with in the morning store so I know they
slap on it you ask him and they go on do
you sleep on yeah I'm just gonna have a
student you've got to get off that show
I mean this is one of the easiest ones
to correct I believe me your shoulder is
not healing when you're putting pressure
on it all night right there's not a lot
of blood flow going to it and this is a
disapproval break so all right number
four this is this is one you should be
able to avoid because it's sporting
activities so unless you're a
professional athlete any overhead
activities like tennis swimming your
swimmer I throw you back throw a lot of
babies but all the ways of all pitching
yeah and Pat you must throw most of our
put it all that's gonna show what is the
what exercise we don't want to get
anybody ever doing Oh for the shoulder
yeah yeah we were doing the the famous
military press yeah over the head does
good it does make the shoulder stronger
but it certainly puts stress on that
rotator cuff and impingement problem not
a really good can lead into north
shoulder hello Joe kind of told I told
this one many times but there was a
really a renowned physical therapist
that he'd go around the wait woman hands
as part of the guys that are doing those
because he knew eventually they'd be
coming to see all right number number
five you want to avoid poor posture the
more your postures like this the more
likely you're going to impinge I'm not
gonna go into the mechanics of it right
now
so the thing that we taught teach people
is to try to correct your posture is to
do shoulder squeezes right shoulder
blade squeeze right so basically there's
a shoulder blades okay so you're gonna
squeeze them together one two three four
five
throughout the day one two three four
five great reminder puts the shoulder
back where it should be
you know shoulders supposed to be my
donate the ears so you can do those
throughout the day as a good reminder
about the posture the overall thing that
you want to do if you really try to
protect your shoulder is you want to
become Tyrannosaurus Rex yeah
Tyrannosaurus Rex has short arms right
so he's a lot like this keeping his LP
home basically
you're keeping your elbow by your sure
if your elbows by your side you're
really hard to hurt your shoulder isn't
it right working in the work box you
keep your work area right here oh yeah
wait was that from the 50s or something
that work box
no that's industrial term we'll talk
about it later really couldn't have a
video on it all right if you haven't
already remember to wait on that done
Bob you got some sleep if you've already
got a shoulder injury and I just worked
with a couple people in this last couple
weeks and their arm gets tighter
throughout the day and they say do you
ever find yourself holding like this
because it's tired a little sore and
they say yes and I say get your sling
back and wear it intermittently you
don't put it on you don't become
dependent upon it but give yourself a
break every so often I tell people grab
as much as you can keep that arm
supported I tell them quite often if
you're gonna sit and watch TV put it on
a pillow there you go if you're in bed
you can put it up on a pillow keep that
arm supported as much as possible and
this is obviously another way yeah this
isn't nice and the other thing about
this if you do have a shoulder injury
and you're wearing this in public it
keeps people from combat or visual cue
like India I was going to know how to do
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