{"id":13,"date":"2013-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/isaarisalo\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:04:56","slug":"how-to-treat-rotator-cuff-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/isaarisalo\/how-to-treat-rotator-cuff-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Treat Rotator Cuff Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Treat Rotator Cuff Pain At Home<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s a training instructional video to prevent and treat shoulder injuries:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The idea to this article came to me naturally when I was doing a light home workout tonight. But first, I want to tell you a story.<\/p>\n

I have had a shoulder problem ever since I was fooled into a playful bench press competition with one guy who trained at the same gym. The year was 1995 I believe.<\/p>\n

I had planned to do some bench presses that day anyway, but this funny guy somehow got me to forget my usual perfection in form. I had planned to do just fives but he had me do heavy singles to see how much we could lift.<\/p>\n

I went up to 145 kilograms. The bar touched my chest, and I hoisted it up with throat sounds you could use for a Jurassic Park movie soundtrack. No problem so far.<\/p>\n

But as I got on my feet I found it was difficult to lift my right arm. As though most of the power was gone. A sharp pain went through the shoulder, and I understood that the competition was over, and so was the workout.<\/p>\n

I knew I must have a rotator cuff rupture so I also knew I had to find out how to treat rotator cuff injury. The Internet was a baby at that time, so I went to the library.<\/p>\n

I knew a lot about injury prevention and rehabilitation so I got proud and didn\u2019t see a physician. Maybe I should have. I had ice treatment immediately and put the shoulder to rest for a week.<\/p>\n

Then I did some research and started to train around the injury. I did special exercises, and my favorite was the first dumbbell exercise on this video. It healed the injury almost completely over the years.<\/p>\n

But I didn\u2019t recover to be able to bench press again. Dips were impossible too, so I tried something else. I found that I could do incline dumbbell presses very carefully.<\/p>\n

Back to tonight. I did my usual rotator cuff exercises. But the shoulder had slowly gotten worse in a few months, and it felt bound, like frozen. I had a portable chinning bar under my bed so I tried that.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been hanging from anything for years and now I realize that\u2019s been a mistake. Half of the pain relieved instantly from a few minutes of hanging from the bar. Monkeys are wise creatures.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s grip a doorway bar at home, and add light dumbbell exercises shown in this video.<\/p>\n

That is how to treat rotator cuff injury at home!<\/p>\n

Ilkka \u201cFlash\u201d Saarisalo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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