Physical Therapy Clinic Spokane Blog

In several previous blog posts and videos about shoulder pain and rotator cuff issues (especially rotator cuff “tendinosis”), I’ve talked about how to heal the rotator cuff with things like eccentric strengthening.

However, I’ve never explained how to progress to eccentric strengthening while dealing with shoulder pain, and I get a lot of questions on my YouTube videos about how to strengthen the rotator cuff without causing addition pain.

In this video, I’ll explain that strength progression, which I break down into 3 stages.

Small tears in the rotator cuff muscles is very common for people with shoulder pain.

On an MRI report, these small rotator cuff tears can be visualized, as can other common issues such as “supraspinatus tendinosis” and “infraspinatus tendinosis”.

For the most part, small rotator cuff tears (and tendinosis) don’t require surgery. Yet many people struggle to heal these issues, reduce their shoulder pain, and regain full use of their shoulder and arm

One of the most common questions I hear from people with shoulder pain and rotator cuff issues is how to heal tears in the rotator cuff.

Often times, these people have had shoulder pain for months (if not years), and at some point they’ve been told to rest to let the rotator cuff heal.

Unfortunately, resting the shoulder rarely helps improve healing and shoulder pain, and it often makes the pain worse.