Healthy Shoulder Handbook

Clear information and effective exercises to end pain, regain range of motion, and prevent future injury—includes over 300 photos. Shoulder problems can be debilitating, whether they come from sports injuries or just daily stresses and strains. Healthy Shoulder Handbook outlines the causes for common shoulder conditions, including shoulder impingement, rotator cuff, tendinitis, dislocation, and repetitive motion injuries. Illustrated with over 300 step-by-step photographs, it offers easy-to-follow exercises to: • Build strength • Improve flexibility • Speed up recovery • Prevent future injury Healthy Shoulder Handbook also features specially designed programs to reverse or alleviate the strain from high-risk sports and occupations, including construction work, desk jobs, tennis, golf, and more. Follow the approach in this book and you’ll be able to quickly get back on the job (or back on the court!) and stay there—pain-free!

Looks at the causes of common shoulder and arm problems and offers step-by-step photographs for exercises designed to build strength, improve flexibility, prevent injury, and speed up recovery.

Live pain free once again with this proven guide designed to help you easily treat and prevent injuries like frozen shoulder, rotator cuff, tendinitis, and dislocation right from your own home. Millions of people suffer from debilitating shoulder problems every year. But with this user-friendly guide, you can begin to understand the causes for common shoulder conditions and then learn the steps you need to take to heal your body. Healthy Shoulder Handbook features 100 easy-to-follow exercises with step-by-step photos for treating common shoulder injuries and ending chronic pain, fast. This handbook is the perfect resource to help you: Build shoulder strength Improve flexibility Speed up recovery Prevent injury Healthy Shoulder Handbook also features specially designed stretching programs to reverse or alleviate the strain from high-risk sports and occupations, including construction work, desk jobs, tennis, golf and more. By following the steps in this book, you'll be able to quickly get back to your daily routines—pain free!

A comprehensive at-home rehab and maintenance program with stretching, strengthening, and massaging therapies—from the author of Healthy Shoulder Handbook. The cause of your frozen shoulder may be a mystery, but the way to fix it is no secret. Heal Your Frozen Shoulder guides you through the entire rehabilitation process, from understanding the problem to regaining full movement. It even tells you how to avoid this debilitating condition in the future. Featuring over 200 step-by-step photos, this book presents a complete program to get your shoulder back to its best possible condition, including: Effective movements Progressive stretches Gentle strengthening techniques Long-term lifestyle adjustments Author Dr. Karl Knopf, who specializes in the needs of aging patients, emphasizes proven treatments and proper form to guarantee help with your shoulder pain regardless of your fitness level.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The incidence of shoulder dysfunction is caused by many variables. Some may result from falls, while others may come from overuse. Shoulder problems can affect the weekend athlete, the office worker hunched over a computer, and the home owner who paints a bedroom wall. #2 The shoulder is a complex joint, and pain can be referred from the neck or other areas of the body, creating different degrees of shoulder problems. The percentage of people experiencing shoulder problems depends on the definition of shoulder pain used. #3 The shoulder is a complex joint that can rock a baby to sleep, hurl a baseball at 90 mph, and generate a 100-mph serve in tennis. However, it is also the most difficult and complicated joint in the body to rehabilitate. #4 The shoulder is made up of four bones: the clavicle, the scapula, the acromion, and the sternum. The joint between the humerus and the scapula is known as the GH joint.

Discover the power of resistance bands in rehabilitating injuries and strengthening the body through low-impact workouts complete with step-by-step photos. Ranging in intensity from super easy to extremely hard, the resistance band exercises in this book are sure to effectively and safely help you overcome any injury by building up strength and stability over time. Each section of the book by Dr. Karl Knopf targets a specific body part, with detailed anatomical information and easy-to-follow recovery routines for: Neck Shoulders Elbows Wrists & Hands Lower Back Hips Knees Ankles & Feet Whether you’re looking to reduce pain, transform troublesome muscles, or get back in the game, Injury Rehab with Resistance Bands provides rehab techniques for your exact injury, including: Arthritis & Tendinitis Bursitis & Fasciitis Ligament & Meniscus Injuries Sprains & Strains Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Rotator Cuff Injuries

Treat your own rotator cuff? Who needs to worry about that? According to the medical research, a lot of people. The rotator cuff, a group of four, flat tendons that connect to the critical muscles that stabilize your shoulder, can cause a lot more problems than you might think. Consider a few of these statistics from the published literature: .It's simply just a matter of time until the majority of shoulders get a rotator cuff tear. According to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans, approximately 4% of people under forty years of age have a torn rotator cuff. After age sixty, however, 54% of people have one (Sher 1995). .Once the rotator cuff gets torn, it doesn't look good either. One study followed a group of patients with tears in their rotator cuffs and found that 80% of the them went on to either enlarge or turn into full thickness tears-in less than a two-year period (Yamanaka 1994). As you can tell, rotator cuff problems aren't just for elite athletes. Seriously consider investing just a few minutes a week doing the simple exercises in this book if you: .have been diagnosed with either a partial or full thickness rotator cuff tear (yes, many studies show that even full thickness tears can be helped with exercise ) .experience shoulder pain .do upper body weight lifting .have a job or play a sport where you do a lot of work with your arms above shoulder level .have been diagnosed with "impingement syndrome" .want a healthy and properly functioning rotator cuff So whether you already suffer from a rotator cuff problem, or simply want to prevent one, Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff will guide you step-by-step through an evidence-based program that can iron-plate your shoulders in just minutes a week. Jim Johnson, P.T., is a physical therapist who has spent over fifteen years treating both inpatients and outpatients with a wide range of pain and mobility problems. He has written many books based completely on published research and controlled trials including The Multifidus Back Pain Solution, Treat Your Own Knees, The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan: A Pocket Guide to What Works, and The Sixty-Second Motivator. His books have been translated into other languages and thousands of copies have been sold worldwide. Besides working full-time as a clinician in a large teaching hospital and writing books, Jim Johnson is a certified Clinical Instructor by the American Physical Therapy Association and enjoys teaching physical therapy students from all over the United States.

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In this Fifth Edition of Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention, in response to requests, I have added some reader's results from the exercise program. Using the simple exercises in the book, most are returned to healthy painless shoulder function without the need for pills, therapy or surgery. The hanging exercise will also relieve back pain by providing a stretching force to the spine that will decompress the disc spaces. Images and videos created during the research for the book are readily available online at www.kirschshoulder.com and YouTube. I also discuss another joint in the shoulder, the acromiohumeral joint.