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We understand that living with discomfort in these areas can be debilitating, affecting your daily life and overall well-being. Our goal is to provide you with valuable insights and effective therapies to alleviate your symptoms and enhance your quality of life.
Shoulder pain can be caused by issues with the shoulder joint. Or it can be caused by issues with the surrounding soft tissues. These soft tissues include muscles, ligaments, tendons and bursae. Shoulder pain that comes from the joint often gets worse with arm or shoulder movement.
Elbow pain may come and go, get worse with movement, or may be constant. It may feel like sharp or aching pain or cause tingling or numbness in your arm and hand. Your elbow is a complex joint. It allows you to stretch out and bend your arm and turn your hand and forearm. As you often combine these movements, you may have a hard time describing exactly which movement brings on the pain. Sometimes elbow pain is caused by a problem in your neck or upper spine or in your shoulder.
Exercise has a useful role to play and incorporating loaded exercises is safe and not detrimental to outcome. In rotator cuff tendinopathy, both home and supervised exercise programs have been found to be more effective than no intervention or placebo and as effective as minimal comparators, (functional braces), or surgery.
More recently, there has been increasing interest in exercise rehabilitation as a means to manage partial and full-thickness tears of the rotator cuff by specifically addressing weakness and functional deficits. Recent studies have suggested that patients opting for physiotherapy have demonstrated high satisfaction, an improvement in function, and success in avoiding surgery.
At Hobson Institute, we offer comprehensive treatment solutions for shoulder and elbow pain, tailored to each patient’s unique needs. Our experienced team of specialists employs a combination of advanced therapies, including physical rehabilitation and dry needling to alleviate discomfort, restore function, and improve the quality of life for our patients.
The two principal causes of shoulder pain are an acute injury to the shoulder or a chronic pain condition involving the nerves, muscles, cartilage, and other structures within the joint. Examples include dislocation of the shoulder, rotator cuff injury, bursitis, frozen shoulder, and arthritis.
The rotator cuff is a set of four muscles attached by tendons to the bones of the arm. These muscles allow the shoulder to move in all directions. Damage or strain can cause pain and stiffness in these structures.
Bursitis is an inflammation of small cushioning sacs between bones, tendons and muscles near joints including the rotator cuff, known as the bursae. If the bursae become inflamed, they may press against muscles and tendons, restricting their motion.
Frozen shoulder is a painful condition that may occur after your shoulder has been in a sling or otherwise held still for long periods of time.
Swinging a racket or club, constantly reaching upward in your job or hobby, or holding the shoulder in stressful positions for extended periods can all create repetitive strain injuries.
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