Introduction to Shoulder Muscle Physical Therapy

Series Summary

The shoulder, comprised of many muscles and three different joints, can be a particularly difficult area to workout and proper technique is essential to avoiding injury. When recovering from a shoulder injury physical therapy exercises are an integral part to regaining range of motion, muscle elasticity, and strength. These exercises can also be used to strengthen uninjured shoulders and serve as warm ups before weightlifting.

In this free online video series learn from Physical Therapist Monica Paradise as she demonstrates shoulder exercises used to increase range of motion, stretch, and strengthen the shoulder. Learn such exercises as the angle raise, arm circles, upper middle back stretch, external shoulder rotation, bicep stretch, lateral shoulder raise, internal shoulder rotation, push up, rear shoulder muscle exercise, shoulder extension, side raise shoulder exercise, and the triceps stretch.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Monica and I am speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Today I am going to show you some exercises that you can do for your shoulder. We will go through some range of motion, some stretching and some strengthening exercises. Range of motion is really good to warm up your shoulders, joints, muscles and the ligaments, everything kind of ready for exercise, so it’s going to increase the blood flow and increase your circulation. Stretching is really good for the muscles and the tendons just to make sure they are nice and limber and that as you are performing you know your everyday activities that you’re not going to be hampered or limited by tight muscles and you are not going to have shoulder problems or back or neck problems just because the muscles are too tight. Then for strengthening exercises are going to be doing strengthening the muscles so that when you are doing the activities you need to do everyday you are not going to be getting totally worn out and sore and just having problems. Like I said we will do range of motion, strengthening and stretching. Usually you will want to do range of motion, first warming up, followed by stretches and then strengthening which is the order that we will do them in. "