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Physical therapist-led rehabilitation and strengthening exercises are superior to at-home, unsupervised exercise for those recovering from arthroscopic acromioplasty (a type of shoulder surgery), according to a new study published January 2012 Journal of Rehabilitative Medicine. Arthroscopic acromioplasty may be used to surgically remove bone spurs or growths on the outer edge of the shoulder [...] Do you have pain at night around your shoulder that keeps you from sleeping on the painful side? Do you have trouble dressing or combing your hair because of shoulder pain? If you do, you might have something called adhesive capsulitis, or “frozen shoulder.” If you could look inside your shoulder, you’d see inflamed connective tissue around the shoulder joint, causing thickening and tightening in the affected area. [...] In a study of 30,000 women and men, researchers found that those who were obese had about 20 percent increased risk for chronic pain in the low back and neck/shoulder area. Exercising for as little as one hour a week or more helped to lower that increased chronic pain risk. [...] |
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