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Summary: Shoulder pain is best treated with daily stretches and weight lifting exercises. Learn more about daily shoulder pain treatments with tips from a fitness instructor in this free video on muscle pain and shoulder impingement.
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Anthony Baron Kirk Anthony Baron Kirk has an educational background from the University of Oregon, the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Germany, a degree from the University of Utah,... read more
Hi. My name is Anthony Baron Kirk. I just want to brief summary about the program that I covered. This is a great day to day program for those of you who maybe just working at a desk and just need some simple techniques to overcome some shoulder pain. Certainly in this over, upper crossed syndrome and overly hunched position this is a great way to just manage some pain and create lots of mobility in the shoulders. So, this is a program that can be done every day. It's not a weight loss technique. This is a very good program for just again increasing mobility in the shoulder, stabilization of the shoulder girdle, and overcoming and getting rid of some pain. So, most of these techniques will help you sleep better at night. So, we covered foam rolling, self mild fascia release, a couple of the areas. Many different foam rolls you can buy. Make sure you buy the right one. I'd say as a beginner and just starting out one of the initial, just kind of beginner to intermediate foam rolls meaning density and kind of the stiffness of the foam. When you're first starting pretty much just pushing on these areas you will feel pressure enough. So, think of that as laying over the top of the foam roll providing your whole body weight into a piece of foam is really what provides this technique. The tennis ball, of course, there is no real variety of tennis balls. Just get yourself a nice little tennis ball. You'll probably have one around the house, very easy to use. Dumbbell, again this is a five pound. You can also just get something a little bit lighter, two to three pounds is going to be ideal. So, as we get better posture we're thinking about using these techniques as well as the couple strength techniques that I covered; the prone cobra and the scaption. Just working to stabilize those shoulder blades you will feel very, very quickly just in a few short days just the ability to draw those shoulders back; like you were told long ago in grade school, to sit up straight. It's the basic idea; except for we're taking that many steps further and actually using the proper muscles to stabilize these shoulder joints. Once you feel that within your body you'll be excited to move forward with a more advance program.