shoulder pain Archive

Rotator Cuff Injuries and Shoulder Pain

Shoulder Pain: A Common Entity “News Flash”: You will likely have shoulder pain at some point in your tennis career. Why? Shoulder pain in overhead athletes is a common entity. Be it an acute episode following a rocket-like serve/overhead, or a nagging, chronic pain that affects your sleep pattern, the shoulder is vulnerable to injury [...]
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Burners and Stingers

What is a burner or stinger? When the bundle of nerves (brachial plexus) that run from the back of your neck into your arm is stretched or pinched, you can get “burners” and “stingers”. How does it occur? A stinger is almost always seen in contact sports when the head and neck are forcibly moved or hit [...]
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Posture

Posture “Stand up straight! Keep your shoulders back!” Your mother was right. It is important to be conscious of your posture. Postural awareness prevents and alleviates back and neck pain, allows for optimal use of your muscles and reduces fatigue. And, don’t forget, good posture makes you look younger and slimmer. There is really no downside. Atlanta Sports [...]
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Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder)

Global loss of shoulder motion can be a sign of adhesive capsulitis or frozen shoulder. Two main categories of this diagnosis are primary and secondary frozen shoulder. Primary adhesive capsulitis generally has an insidious onset. Three stages are typically involved: gradual loss of motion with increased pain (freezing), significant loss of motion with little pain (frozen) [...]
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Shoulder Instability

INSTABILITY Shoulder instability is excessive movement between the humeral head (ball) and the glenoid (socket) which clinically presents as “a feeling of looseness” or loss of momentum and strength. The shoulder can be unstable anteriorly, posterioly, inferiorly, or a combination of all three termed multidirectional instability (MDI). The direction of instability relates to the relationship of the [...]
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Shoulder Labral Injuries

LABRAL INJURIES The shoulder is a ball (humeral head) and socket (glenoid) joint. The socket is extremely shallow, and thus inherently unstable. The shoulder joint is compared to a golf ball on a tee – the ball (humeral head) is not held in place by the tee (socket). Thus extra support is needed to stabilize the [...]
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