Why is Shoulder Stability Important?
Why the shoulder blades are crucial for stability in our shoulder and how the rotator cuff helps. What Is Shoulder Stability? Often when talking about stability in your shoulder people mention the rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is a series of 4 muscles and does play a big part when it comes to stability. However,…
2 Exercises For Shoulder Pain
If you are experiencing shoulder pain out of nowhere and do not know why it is occurring. These exercises may be perfect to help to ease shoulder pain. Why am I Experiencing Shoulder Pain? Do you ever just wake up and have shoulder pain? You have no idea where it came from or why it’s…
Neck Pain Disturbing Your Sleep? 3 Tips To Get Relief
Are you experiencing neck pain and looking for tips to help loosen a stiff neck? People are doing a lot of different things now post-pandemic, bringing new aches and pains. We’ve been talking to patients in the clinic that have been experiencing new pains from… Playing with kids all day, picking them up more frequently,…
can sitting for long periods of time affect your body?
Sitting too much can be bad for you and most of us do feel a little guilty after a long tv binge, but what I wanted to do was to give you a little insight into “What exactly goes wrong in our bodies when we sit down for long periods of time?” The best way…
Tight Shoulder? This May Be The Cause
This is one of the most common injuries we see here in my clinic. The shoulder has the greatest movements of all the joints in the body and the rotator cuff is a set of muscles that supports these movements. There are only 3 ligaments in the shoulder that allow this high range of movement.…
Shoulder Pain? Then Don’t Do This
Are you currently suffering from shoulder pain? It’s one of the greatest mysteries of being 50+; the sudden onset of shoulder pain and stiffness that often creeps up without any warning or explanation. Sometimes it just happens! I’ve had a number of patients come to see us, saying things like… “I just woke up one…
How Your Lifestyle Could Be Making Your Shoulder Pain Worse
Often it can be hard to see what you’re doing wrong in your habits because, well, it’s your lifestyle. Sometimes your ways may cause unexpected pain, such as shoulder pain. Your daily routine is so uniform to you that it can become second nature to read before bed, play on your tablet, or go for…
Shoulder Pain That Keeps You Up At Night
Shoulder pain at night… the one thing that gets on most people’s nerves because they don’t know what to do about it. They think it’s just something they have to get on with day-in and day-out… Meet Suzie for example… Suzie is a fellow physical therapist and long-time family friend. She works with kids at…
Still Have Elbow Pain? Here’s 1 Simple Thing You Haven’t Tried
Elbow pain can be caused by a number of reasons. Over the years we’ve talked about a majority of them! Some causes include the elbow joint itself, the wrist and forearm, and even higher into the neck and shoulder. One cause of elbow pain we have not talked a lot about is how weak rotator…
Can Sleeping Cause Neck Pain?
Do you ever wonder if sleeping can cause neck pain? Have you ever had a slight pain in the neck but didn’t really think it was a big deal, especially if you knew it was because you slept awkwardly? Yes? I thought so. I hear this quite often from my clients when they first come…
