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Assisted shoulder elevation

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Raising the painful arm with help from the other arm or from a sliding surface moves the shoulder through elevation without asking the painful shoulder to lift the whole limb.

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2.0 to 3.0 m awayYou
Seated, side onLens 0.9 to 1.4 m

Before you start

A session holds exercises. An exercise holds sets. Stop what a rule names and everything inside it.

  • First pain when irritability is high: stop the repetition.
  • Shoulder hurts more the next morning: stop the exercise.
  • Night pain returns: stop progressing the range.

The movement

  1. Sit on a chair facing a table, lie on your back, or stand beside a table.
  2. Sitting: both feet flat on the floor.
  3. Standing: feet hip width apart, and only as the irritability falls.
  4. Forearm of the painful arm on the table, or that wrist held by the other hand.
  5. Shoulders level.
  6. Elbow of the painful arm straight, not locked.
  7. Camera on the side of the painful arm.

  1. Slide the arm forward along the table, or lift it with the other hand.
  2. Move only as far as the irritability allows.
  3. Hold the end position 30 seconds.
  4. Bring the arm back to the start.
  5. Relax 30 seconds.

shoulder flexion
No published number
Sets
1 to 2
Repetitions
4 to 10, held 30 seconds
Sessions a week
5 to 6
Down
3 seconds
Pause at the bottom
30 seconds
Up
3 seconds
Pause at the top
30 seconds

Sets, repetitions and sessions: Test protocol, moderate confidence.