Shoulder pain is awful. These 5 exercises can help. Simple physical therapy exercises to help reduce your shoulder impingement pain immediately and eliminate it forever in the long term. Physical therapy tests and exercises for shoulder impingement pain - hope they help you! Read more below…

You shoulder is your most-mobile joint in your body. This is because of the “ball and socket” anatomical arrangement. The “ball” of your humerus (arm bone) sits up in the “socket” of your scapula (shoulder blade) to allow for three dimensions of movement.

Now that humeral head (or “ball”) must sit squarely in the center of the socket in order to function correctly. However this doesn’t always happen.

Often times there’s superior migration (or “upward movement”) of the ball in the socket that causes one of your rotator cuff tendons to get “pinched”. In the medical world, this pinching is referred to as “impingement” and can be a miserable condition.

It often lead to irritation of the tendon in the shoulder, then inflammation, and eventually fraying and tearing of your rotator cuff.

Luckily the right exercises for your shoulder can really help.

In this video, I’ll show you three simple stretches to relieve impingement pain on your tendon immediately and then also simple rotator cuff exercises you can do at home to help keep the pain from coming back.

BEST EXERCISES FOR SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT PAIN

1:35 EMPTY CAN TEST FOR IMPINGEMENT
2:16 HAWKINS KENNEDY TEST FOR IMPINGEMENT
3:22 STANDING SHOULDER STRETCH
4:18 KNEELING SHOULDER STRETCH
5:31 BONUS! HANGING SHOULDER STRETCH
6:03 SCAPULAR PINCH EXERCISE
7:36 WALL ANGELS EXERCISE

Stretching your shoulder where it’s tight (inferior capsule) and strengthening your shoulder where it’s weak (rotator) cuff are incredibly effective methods to decrease shoulder impingement discomfort and pain.

I hope the exercises in this video helped you feel better. If they did please comment your experience below and leave the video a thumbs up.

MORE GREAT SHOULDER VIDEOS YOU MIGHT ENJOY:
HOW TO ELIMINATE SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT PAIN: https://youtu.be/Aq6RMo7RJ9c
THREE BEST STRETCHES FOR SHOULDER PAIN: https://youtu.be/dPbwfSsTnnY
HOW TO SLEEP WITH SHOULDER PAIN: https://youtu.be/2-hS6mo7x4k
HOME EXERCISES FOR SHOULDER STABILITY: https://youtu.be/I1-ntOyFCA8
TOP 5 WORST SHOULDER EXERCISES (AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD): https://youtu.be/3w8HgXTFYS0