How to manage shoulder pain
By Lee Sung-hun Today’s Koreans exercise and play sports more often than they ever did before, and among those who enjoy leisure activities, the number of patients with shoulder pains have been increasing especially with those that engage in lots of shoulder movements by doing sports such as golf, baseball, tennis and lifting weights.Among such shoulder-related complaints is shoulder impingement syndrome (SIS), commonly referred to as swimmer’s shoulder or thrower’s shoulder.It is a common cause of shoulder pain that, if improperly treated or left untreated, can lead to more severe supraspinatus tendonitis, or subacromial bursitis, calcific tendonitis or in the worst cases to rotator cuff tear. Some readers who exercise regularly may have at least heard of rotator cuff even if you may not be able to describe exactly what it is.Contrary to a common misconception, it is not actually a single muscle but a group of muscles and tendons, namely supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis muscles.The rotator cuff stabilizes the shoulder joint from
Oct 23, 2016
