Shoulder Pain

If you experience shoulder pain, tension or tightness, you’re not alone. In fact, these shoulder symptoms affect around a quarter of all adults. The good news is you may be able to reduce these uncomfortable symptoms with just a few exercises every day.  Are you...

If you think back, there’s a decent chance that you can remember a time when you had a fall at work. You might have landed on your knee, hands, elbow or shoulder, and you may even have injured yourself.  The National Safety Council reports that 244,000 workers fell...

You’re walking around your house. You stumble on the edge of a rug and fall on your shoulder. Such a scenario is a fairly common one, and it can have serious consequences.  For instance, many common shoulder injuries result from falling, and falls are often a source...

It’s hard to count how many things you use your shoulder and upper arm for every day, and pain in these areas can make every one of them harder to do. For instance, grabbing your coffee mug from a cabinet is suddenly tougher. Driving your vehicle can also be more...

Your shoulders are able to power your arms through a wide range of motions thanks to the rotator cuffs. Each shoulder joint is held together and powered by a group of muscles, tendons and ligaments that make up the rotator cuff. When one of the muscles or tendons in...

A common cause of shoulder pain that affects many people is shoulder impingement syndrome. However, you’re probably more familiar with its common name — pinched shoulder. Shoulder impingement syndrome causes pain in the shoulder and limits its range of motion. The...

The answer to this question could be harder to find than you might think. One reason for this is that the shoulder is such a complex joint. Another reason is that shoulder pain is so common.  Researchers who have studied shoulder pain reveal that up to 70% of people...

Falling is one of the most common ways to injure yourself. In fact, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) reports that more than 2.8 million fall injuries are treated by hospital emergency rooms every year. Many of these include shoulder injuries, and it’s important to...