Shoulder Injuries.

Shoulder pain is one of the most common injuries we see in the clinic.  This can include injuries such as:

  • Rotator Cuff impingement

  • Rotator cuff tears

  • Shoulder bursitis

  • Shoulder instability, subluxations and dislocations

  • AC Joint injuries

VIDEO: Best Stretches To Fix Rounded Shoulders

What can Lift Physio do to help your shoulder injury?

When you first come and see us at Lift Physio, there’s a few things we’ll do.  

First we’ll ask you a few questions because we want to fully understand your problem and what your goals are - what would you like to get back to that you can't do right now because of your shoulder injury, for example.  

We also want to get you feeling and moving better as quickly as possible. Some of the tools that we use to do this include:

  • Manual therapy

  • joint mobilisations (If you have stiff joints in your neck or upper upper back, this may be contributing to your shoulder pain and will need to be addressed)

  • Soft tissue massage

  • Dry needling

  • Gentle “therapeutic” exercises (maybe some gentle stretches, roller/massage ball exercises)

We’ll also develop a treatment plan with you so that you can know exactly what to expect from us, your expected recovery timeframes, and what we’ll need to do to help you get back to 110%

Then once you start feeling and moving better, we’ll have a chance to get to the bottom of your problem and really understand its main cause.  Where appropriate, we like to do this through one of our “Super Assessments”.

Our Super Assessments are a one-hour dedicated assessment where we go deep to understand the true cause of your shoulder problem - assessing everything from your muscle strength and power (particularly your rotator cuff, pecs, lats, and the muscles around your shoulder blades) mobility and flexibility and motor control (especially for your shoulder, shoulder blade, upper back and neck), as well as any other factors that may be relevant for you. (We use some pretty cool, high-tech equipment to help us do this, too).

Once we’ve looked through the data, we can then come up with a tailored exercise program just for you, to address the underlying problems that we have found - because we want this problem to be gone for good.