Effective Shoulder Pain Relief
1800 W Woolbright Road, Suite 101
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
Phone: (561) 733 7677
Fax: (561) 733 7074
Personalized manual therapy
to end your pain and
restore your quality of life
There are various treatment options to help alleviate the pain in your shoulder and restore the movement. Typically a combination of medication and physical therapy are done first to help to reduce pain and increase movement in the shoulder. Surgery is considered if there is severe damage to the shoulder.
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Reach overhead without pain -
Sleep without shoulder pain
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Reach behind your back
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Reach behind you in the car
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Lift heavy objects such as groceries
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Recover after a shoulder surgery
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Why Does My Shoulder Hurt?
The shoulder is the most complicated joint in your body. The reason is that it has to move through a very large range of motion while maintaining strength and stability.
There are many reasons why a shoulder can begin to hurt and stop you from doing normal activities. However, it boils down to 4 simple factors that your shoulder joint needs to be healthy and function properly:
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Strength
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Posture
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Coordination
If you start to lose any of the above factors, the shoulder becomes unbalanced and a resulting increased strain occurs. This can lead to a build up of inflammation, degeneration of shoulder muscle tissue, and long term joint damage such as arthritis.
The rotator cuff is a series of 4 small muscles that guide the way your shoulder joint moves. Rotator cuff tears can be either partially or fully torn. They can be either traumatic from an injury or heavy lifting. Often, they are a product of many years of weakness and fraying to a point where they may partially break or completely rupture. Conservative treatment is usually very successful for partial tears and depending on the severity, surgery may be needed.
Impingement is caused by poor mechanics of the shoulder. When the rotator cuff muscles are weak and the shoulders are rounded forward in poor posture the ball of the humerus bone does not dip down when lifting your arm overhead. This results in a pinching of the bursa (a fluid filled sac) between the humerus bone and the shelf of the shoulder blade called the acromion.
Shoulder arthritis occurs when the cartilage of the joint wears down. Wear and tear over time lead to bone spurs, poor tissue quality, inflammation, pain, weakness, and poor shoulder mechanics. Shoulder arthritis pain can be helped with conservative treatments such as medication, cortisone, and physical therapy. When shoulder arthritis is severe, surgery to replace the joint may be necessary.
Tendonitis is a very common condition of the shoulder. Usually a combination of weakness, poor shoulder mechanics, and a resulting strain from lifting or overhead repetitive reaching. Tendonitis is an inflammation of the tendons around the shoulder resulting in painful swelling. Tendonitis responds well to conservative treatment to address the causes of the tendon strain and inflammation.
Common Painful Shoulder Problems
Rotator Cuff Tear
Arthritis
Impingement /Bursitis
Tendonitis
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Treatment Solutions
AIM Physical Therapy helps you with rotator cuff, adhesive capsulitis, shoulder treatment, frozen shoulder, shoulder injury.
AIM manual physical therapy is the natural way of helping your body recover from shoulder pain and weakness. At AIM your pain and difficulty moving is extensively evaluated by an expert physical therapist who has years of training in medical evaluation of musculoskeletal conditions.
Your physical therapist then discusses with you as he evaluates your shoulder the findings and formulates a plan of addressing the root causes of your pain. The plan may include modalities such as ultrasound to relieve your pain, specialized gentle manual therapy to increase your soft tissue and joint mobility, and a customized easy to do exercise program to strengthen key areas.
The key to a great recovery is a customized treatment plan just for you. At AIM Physical Therapy we have the knowledge and exclusive skills to treat your pain and get you back quickly to enjoying your activities.
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