JP Fitness Forums - Personal Training - View Single Post - Internal shoulder rotation

-Richie- · 03-13-2007, 10:21 AM

Hi Bill

I received my Golf Fitness Coach DVD's and watched them last night, very well made and informative and gives me plenty to start working on.

My biggest issue from your tests is internal rotation of my right shoulder, which is down to a bench press 'blowout' four years ago. I had an MRI at the time and the surgeon diagnosed a small tear in the labrum (although they couldn't be 100% sure without scoping it) and after a good think about it, I decided against surgery as the pain subsided and it didn't seem to impact my everyday life. About two years ago I had a horrible problem with my upper back, when my rhomboid muscles went into continuous spasm, so I worked with a chiropractor a friend recommended and he sorted it out in about 5 visits and gave me some preventative measures to work on (stretches, posture corrections, not sitting hunched over on a airplane typing, those sorts of things). During that treatment he also looked at my shoulder and he reckoned that the lack of internal rotation was a ligament issue not cartilage and it could be 'stretched' to allow more internal rotation (he gave me an exercise to bounce if but I didn't keep it up for long, call me lazy, I was). The reality is because I never had it scoped, it's hard to say what the problem really is, be it cartilage, ligament, scar tissue, or whatever.

Your tests did highlight just how bad it is though. If I lie my back, I can rotate my left shoulder down to about 10º (angle between the floor and my forearm) and my right down to about 80º, that's not a typo, that's 80º.

Other than the recommended exercises in the DVD is there anything else you might recommend I do to try and improve this chronic problem?

Cheers

Richie

03-13-2007, 10:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
-Richie- Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Boston Posts: 9 My Profile	Internal shoulder rotation - question for Bill Hi Bill I received my Golf Fitness Coach DVD's and watched them last night, very well made and informative and gives me plenty to start working on. My biggest issue from your tests is internal rotation of my right shoulder, which is down to a bench press 'blowout' four years ago. I had an MRI at the time and the surgeon diagnosed a small tear in the labrum (although they couldn't be 100% sure without scoping it) and after a good think about it, I decided against surgery as the pain subsided and it didn't seem to impact my everyday life. About two years ago I had a horrible problem with my upper back, when my rhomboid muscles went into continuous spasm, so I worked with a chiropractor a friend recommended and he sorted it out in about 5 visits and gave me some preventative measures to work on (stretches, posture corrections, not sitting hunched over on a airplane typing, those sorts of things). During that treatment he also looked at my shoulder and he reckoned that the lack of internal rotation was a ligament issue not cartilage and it could be 'stretched' to allow more internal rotation (he gave me an exercise to bounce if but I didn't keep it up for long, call me lazy, I was). The reality is because I never had it scoped, it's hard to say what the problem really is, be it cartilage, ligament, scar tissue, or whatever. Your tests did highlight just how bad it is though. If I lie my back, I can rotate my left shoulder down to about 10º (angle between the floor and my forearm) and my right down to about 80º, that's not a typo, that's 80º. Other than the recommended exercises in the DVD is there anything else you might recommend I do to try and improve this chronic problem? Cheers Richie