Frozen Shoulder
Frozen shoulder…Have you ever heard of this or even had this issue? Unfortunately, my mother went through this a few years ago, and continuous shoulder exercises with a resistance band was a remedy for her. I remember she complained about stiffness and extremely limited motion of her shoulders, which I couldn’t quite understand then because she is overall a healthy person.
Having been involved in Pilates, however, I have learnt what muscles were affected and what may have caused it, and more importantly how to fix it. The affected area was the Rotator Cuff Muscles, which include Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Teres Minor, and Subscapularis, and they are located on the shoulder blades and head of humerus (A.K.A funny bone:)). These muscles are quite small and short but are heavily responsible for vital daily movements to your surprise.
As you can imagine, lack of exercise will gradually weaken our body muscles, and eventually this will overload the Rotator Cuff Muscles as they will need to take over a part of the big shoulder muscles such as Deltoid. If this pattern continues or a sudden forceful impact occurs to these small muscles, they can be as injured as we can’t even change a lightbulb or can suffer from frozen shoulder.
The exercises above are great to strengthen Rotator Cuff Muscles which will help prevent frozen shoulder. One thing to keep in mind…these are small movements, so there is no need to try to make big movements but have “consistency” on a regular basis.
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