Why would my chiropractor adjust my back to help treat a rotator cuff injury? The short answer is that any motion in the extremities originates from the spine. After spinal dysfunction has been addressed, then look at scapular motion, shoulder mobility / stability, and rehab. Take an inside out approach and you wont be lacking in your treatment approach. Successful treatment of supraspinatus repetition strain injury requires correcting somatic dysfunction of the axial skeleton before treating the supraspinatus muscle. Muscles that insert on the shoulder girdle have their origin as far cranially as the occiput and as far caudally as the sacrum, and their innervation spans the spinal accessory to the first thoracic nerve.6 The sympathetic nerves to the upper extremity are the second thoracic nerve through the eighth thoracic nerve. Increased neuronal activity from any of these spinal segments may contribute to the patients pain. After somatic dysfunction of the axial skeleton has been treated, there are four essential steps for optimal treatment of supraspinatus repetition strain injury: improvement of motion of the scapula, reduction of strain in the supraspinatus muscle, home exercise, and work posture modification. jiscs/PDFs/ShoulderPainandRepetitionStrainInjury.Jacobson,Lockwood,Hoefner.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:36:20 +0000
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