By: Susan G Smith | 2011-04-21 | Health & Fitness The series of small muscles on top of the shoulders is called the rotator cuff. These set of muscles when subjected to hard use such as athletic activities and the factor of old age can easily be inju... read more
By: Nick Bynoth | 2010-03-31 | Health & Fitness I'm no expert, simply someone who suffered with an injury to my rotator cuff and took a keen interest in it as a result. Understanding the injury was the first step to recovery. Having gone through this painful condition myself and made a full recovery it seemed sensible to write down my experience for others. The rotator cuff is a band of four muscles that help to move and stabilise the shoulder joint. The shoulder is a ball and socket joint but unlike the hip joint the socket is made up of cartilage rather than bone... read more
By: Reggie Robey | 2010-03-27 | Health & Fitness The shoulder rotator cuff consist of four muscles and their tendons that control the function of the shoulder and connects the upper arm bone (humerus) with the shoulder blade (scapula). It consists of a group of four muscles, namely infraspinatus, supraspinatus, subscapularis and teres minor. These tendons fuse all together surrounding the back, front and top of the shoulder joint like a cuff. read more
By: jasica thomas | 2010-11-18 | Alternative Medicine If it is determined by your doctor that surgery is not necessary, be sure to review all treatments he feels will be best to relieve pain and gain strength without causing further damage. read more
By: Casey Bartlett | 2011-03-24 | Home & Family Torn rotator cuff workouts are essential for anybody who has endured a cuff injuries. This statement is one thing I firmly think in and it is backed up with a huge weight of scientific and anecdotal evidence. Simply because of my experiences I have arrive to recognize how and why rotator cuff exercising is vital to earning a comprehensive recovery. In this guide I aim to highlight the benefits of training, explode a handful of myths and give some best suggestions. Hopefully this wil... read more
By: Andy Finn | 2010-10-24 | Diseases and Conditions Should you have suffered from a tear following strenuous exercise or a repetitive task, you may want to consider a program of torn rotator cuff exercises to implement on top of an anti inflammatory treatment. A tear shows up with an unwelcome pain on the shoulder area spreading down to the elbow in more sever cases, with a typical dropping feeling upon raising the arm and weakness. read more
By: David Perdew | 2010-04-01 | Health & Fitness The primary indication of a torn rotator cuff is pain in the muscles surrounding the shoulder and the upper tip of the humerus, or arm bone. There are three types of tears: tendonitis, chronic tears, and acute tears. The type of pain experienced indicates the severity of the tear. read more
By: Tom Bowler | 2010-08-11 | Health & Fitness In the shoulder, there are four small muscles linking to together. If you want to have a strong healthy shoulder, you should have an exercise program including rotator cuff strengthening to make these muscles strengthen.Most people think of the shoulder as being composed of one large muscle but this is a misconception. The four small muscles that it is composed of are the supraspinatus, the infras read more
By: Susan G Smith | 2011-04-21 | Health & Fitness When you have a torn rotator cuff, surgery will be the last option your doctor will order. The reason for this is that there are aquatic rotator cuff therapy exercises that can help you recover natura... read more
By: David Perdew | 2010-04-01 | Health & Fitness By including basic rotator cuff exercises in your daily fitness routine, you can help keep your them strong and healthy if you make sure they are a consistent part of any exercise regimen. These exercises will help to strengthen the muscles of the rotator cuff and will also help make your rotator cuffs more resistant to tears and other injuries. These rotator cuff strengthening exercises are easy to do and they take little time to complete. read more
By: Nick Bryant | 2010-03-26 | Health & Fitness A shoulder injury can be extremely painful but rotator cuff surgery may not always be the simplest solution. Knowing nothing about the musculature of the shoulder I decided to find out as much as possible simply so that when I was taking my doctor's advice I was doing so from a position of strength. read more
By: Travis Petelle | 2010-03-30 | Health & Fitness I thought I should do an article of what exactly is the rotator cuff anatomy. Hopefully this will help people understand how to prevent common injuries to the shoulder.... read more
By: Andy Finn | 2010-10-20 | Diseases and Conditions The shoulder is an incredibly complex joint that is vulnerable to a variety of injuries such as tears or dislocations, but it can be recovered quickly with a specific rehabilitation program. A program of rotator cuff injury exercises consists of rotational external and internal movements to be performed regularly to strengthen the cuff muscles and tendons following an injury. read more
By: Andy Finn | 2010-10-22 | Diseases and Conditions A program of rotator cuff strengthening exercises is the best solution as a preventive or rehabilitative measure against injuries, like tears or dislocations, and against disorders, like Tendonitis, Bursitis, Impingement and Frozen Shoulder. It is a fact that the rotator cuff is often neglected by the general public or even sport people, who should have all the interest in having a strong and conditioned cuff. read more
By: Nick Bryant | 2011-01-11 | Diseases and Conditions There are a number of different rotator cuff injuries that you can suffer, running from tendonitis to a full rotator cuff tear but the one thing that they have in common is that exercise will feature somewhere in the recovery programme. But what are the best shoulder exercises for a rotator cuff injury and when should you start exercising again. read more