Shoulder Pain

Posted by Simeon Niel Asher on Feb 09, 2016 With a frozen shoulder, it is very important to keep the shoulder moving as much as possible. What you do with your shoulder on a daily basis is important both for managing pain and increasing the rate of recovery. There are simple things you can think about as you go about your daily life to make the ordeal of your frozen shoulder more bearable. The instinct we have when something is hurting is not to use the painful area. Whereas this may be appropriate for other problems, such as a fracture or ligament sprain, it is not so for a “Frozen Shoulder”. Classically the frozen shoulder patient we see comes in holding [...]

Posted by Simeon Niel Asher on Jan 27, 2016 In 70% of all doctor and therapist visits for shoulder problems, the diagnosis is rotator cuff disorder The shoulder is involved in almost all of our waking activities. It is extremely flexible, and along with its several sub-joints (all of which combine to give the widest range of motion in any joint in the body) this is also what makes it vulnerable to injury. The innate joint concavity/convexity stability is weak so an intricate system of capsule, ligaments, connective tissues and muscles is employed to fix the large ball into the small socket. The four cuff muscles concurrently bring the gleno-humeral joint back and down to stabilize the shoulder, allowing us [...]