11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain 

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health.

 10 of 12 9. Retrain proper movement   

For people with shoulder problems, they may need to relearn how to lift overhead and fire the right muscles at the right time. It seems simple, but trainees often struggle with these exercises because they’re not used to correct movement.
Try an exercise like the Reach, Roll, and Lift. Although tedious, building the correct movement pattern at the shoulders is critical to preventing injuries and reducing pain .

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11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain 

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health.

 8 of 12 8. Don’t forget your lats   

Much like the pecs, they need to be targeted with soft-tissue work and stretched too. Don’t say I didn’t warn you – this hurts.”

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11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain 

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health.

 8 of 12 7. Fire your lower traps   

The lower traps are the Meg Griffin of muscles – no one really cares about them. Yet they’re critical in getting your shoulders to sit the right position, encourage good posture, and allow for clean movement in your shoulder blades.

Because of the way the lower traps aim – known as “pennation” – it’s activated when you make a Y-shape with your arms. (Imagine the Village People, if you will.) Strengthen your lower traps with exercises like:
Try exercises like:
    - Scapular wall slides
    - Prone Ys
    - Wide-grip pulldowns..”

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11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health. 

6 of 12   5. Switch to dumbbells

(Or anything where you can twist your hands – cables, suspension trainers, etc. are all good choices.) When you use barbells and machines, your hands can’t rotate, and it forces your shoulders into unnatural positions, which puts a lot of stress on the joints. Instead, use exercises that allow your arms to twist naturally.

Which directions? On your right hand, you should go clockwise as you pull and counterclockwise as you push.

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11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health. 

6 of 12     6. Strengthen your external rotators

Stand up and let your arms relax. Where do your palms face? At each other? Toward your hips?  Directly behind  you?.

Chances are, your palms aren’t facing each other. That means your arms “internally rotate” – twist inward with your palms facing backward – and create an impingement at your shoulder joint. To open the sacred subacromial space, strengthen the opposite motion by targeting the muscles that externally rotate your arms.
Try exercises like:

    - Band no-money drill
    - Cable external rotations
    - Reverse flyes

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11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health. 

5 of 12   4. Open your thoracic spine

Reach your right hand overhead and down your back as far as you can while reaching your left hand up your back as far as possible.

Can you touch your hands together? Are you even close? If not, it’s more than just your shoulders that are tight – your thoracic spine is stiff.

The thoracic spine (T-spine) is the area around your mid- to upper-back that’s built for mobility. When it becomes tight, it limits your shoulders and cause shoulder pain.

To open the T-spine, try exercises like:
   -  Cat-Camel
   -  Side Lying Diagonal Reach
   -  T-Spine Extension on a Foam Roller
   -  Quadruped T-Spine Extension.

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11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

11 Ways to Fix Shoulder Pain

Here are 11 tips and exercises that will help you alleviate shoulder pain and restore proper joint health. 

4 of 12   3. Open your pecs with soft-tissue work

Because of imbalances in the upper-body (a strong chest and weak back), the chest muscles tend to get stiff and short, which yanks your shoulders forward. Therefore, you need to lengthen the chest muscles, build good posture, and let the shoulders sit properly again.

But stretching isn’t enough. Often, the muscles in the chest get dense and fibrotic, and just don’t want to cooperate. Instead, you’ll need to use “soft-tissue work” to massage the muscles, break up the gunk, and restore muscle quality.

Use a lacrosse ball or tennis ball to dig into the pecs. (You might find a painful surprise.) After opening the muscle, your pecs will be susceptible to stretching, and you can restore its natural length.

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