Self Assessment & Self Treatment For Shoulder Impingement Syndrome || Seattle Sports Chiropractor
Channel: Mobility Plus Sports Rehab
Date: 14/03/2021

Does your shoulder hurt when you raise your arm?  If that's you, keep reading!  Dr. Li will go over a simple self-assessment & self treatment for shoulder impingement pain and a simple exercise to address multiple items related to your anterior shoulder pain.

Anterior shoulder (front of the shoulder) pain is not fun.  It makes reaching for something such as the shelf much harder than it should be and a bad start to the morning when you want to get your cereal on top of your fridge. 

In our Seattle clinic, we found many front shoulder pain patients also have problems with the lack of proper movement at the scapula (shoulder blade).  This video will show you how to move better at your shoulder blade.  It is also combined with good posture at the neck and spine to make your shoulder work better than before, so you don't have to suffer from it!

This simple, effective exercise is always overlooked because, well, it's simple.  You are busy at home and work, and you don't need a million different exercises to address your pain, and that's what we always keep in mind.  

Video Outline
0:00 Intro to Shoulder Pain
0:30 Shoulder Impingement explanation
0:50 Self assessment for shoulder impingement
1:32 Self treatment & Corrective exercises
1:55 Starting position for corrective exercise
2:11 1st progression to downward dog
2:18 Technique tips and details
4:12 Re-assess after exercise
4:26 2nd Progression to downward dog 

The quadruped position and the progression of this exercise help address multiple issues all at once:

1) proper loading at the shoulder joint (the glenohumeral joint) to train the rotator cuff muscles to work properly

2) teaching the scapula (the shoulder blade) how to move in sequence with the arm (the humerus), hence decrease the impingement at the shoulder

3) fix your neck posture and core too!

Check out the video below, and if you find it helpful, I would always appreciate it if you can give it a like and share it with someone you know who can benefit from it!

Until next time, keep moving better to feel better.

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