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hen you’re first trying to get on top of your shoulder pain, you want to focus on pain-free stretches that allow you to increase your “range of motion” (ROM) without increasing your shoulder pain.

In this video, I’ll demonstrate four simple stretches to help ease shoulder pain and prevent too much tightness from developing.

The four stretches include the following:

– Pendulums
– Table Slides
– Pulleys
– Wall Slides

you have shoulder pain, when you’re first starting to strengthen your shoulder you want to make sure you perform pain-free exercises.

For many people with shoulder pain, performing gentle rotator cuff isometrics is a great place to start.

Later on, as their strength is improving with these exercises, they can progress to more active strengthening (like using a resistance band or tubing).

In this video, I’ll demonstrate two simple-to-perform rotator cuff isometric exercises (external rotation and internal rotation).

If you’ve been struggling with shoulder pain, you might be wondering if it’s better to use ice for pain relief vs. using heat for pain relief.

The answer to that question really depends on two things:

– What’s causing your shoulder pain?

– What are you hoping to accomplish?

For example, if you have rotator cuff tendonitis, you might favor ice. And if you have rotator cuff tendinosis, you might favor heat.

At other times, it might be beneficial to use BOTH ice and heat in the same day.

Again, it really comes down to the cause of your shoulder pain, as well as what you hope the ice/heat will do for you.

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.