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LORD my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.
Psalms 30:2
Shoulder Injury ( The Cause)
by Troy C. Pearsall
| It wasn't until I originally wrote this article about a year
ago, for an old website I used to have, that I realized that I had something
important to contribute to the bodybuilding community. I had no idea when I wrote this article that it would single
handedly raise the stock and notoriety of me as a bodybuilding writer. The other
day while I was working on another
website and someone asked me what happened to that article I wrote on
shoulder injury?
Right then it hit me other people were getting hits and links
for an article that I originally wrote. Now that I have
www.Fire-Iron-Online.com I can
start once again writing articles that are honest and informative. So here is a
complete copy of my original article "Shoulder Pain the Cause"
This article addresses the causes of
shoulder injury a common problem to athletes that participate in bodybuilding
weightlifting and other weight assisted sports.
Most
people think that the shoulder is a ball and socket connection much like the hip
joint; nothing could be further from the truth. The shoulder is made up of two
main bones the humerus the large bone in the upper arm, and the scapula the fan
shaped bone of the upper back. The humerus is covered by cartilage which in a
cartilage covered semi cup called the glenoid. This and the top boney extensions
of the scapula make up a very fragile ball joint.
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When its time to evaluate the shoulder
muscles, most people we think of the shoulder muscles we think of the deltoids,
and the trapezius. However the shoulder is made up of other lesser seen muscles
whose development is essential to health shoulder joints. These lesser muscles
are the Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus and the teres major, minor better know as
the rotor cuff muscles. Below is the action of these muscles, there purpose,
origin and insertions:
· Supraspinatus:
This muscle has an origin at the top of the scapula and an insertion at the top
or superior facet of th e
humerus. This muscle initiates and assists the deltoid in the abduction (rising)
of the arm.
· Infraspinatus:
this fan shaped muscle has it origin at the middle of the scapula it covers
about 90 percent of the scapula and insert at Middle facet on greater tuberosity
of humerus (the larger tube shape connection of the upper arm at the ball shaped
top). The purpose of this muscle is to lateral lift the arm help to hold the
humeral head in the glenoid cavity of the scapula
· Teres Major: this muscle
has it origin at the lower inside of the scapula and insertion is at the middle
of the opposite side of the humerus, just below the humeral head. The purpose of
this muscle is to abduct and rotate the arm across the body, as if your elbow
was pointing down and just your forearm rotated across your body
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· Teres Minor: T his tiny
muscle has its origin at the lateral boarder of the scapula just above the teres
major, and its insertion at the Inferior facet on greater tuberosity of humerus.
This little muscle has to lateral rotate the arm, and like the Infraspinatus
help to hold the humeral
head in the glenoid cavity of the scapula.
Not only to the rotor cuff muscle stabilize
the shoulder they assist in moving the arm especially during internal and
external rotation. However the ability of the rotor cuff muscle to stabilize
depends on their strength in relation to the larger deltoids and trapezius
muscles. The solution to shoulder pain is simple strengthen the rotor cuff
muscles and the shoulder pain goes away.
But where did the pain
come from in the beginning? Easy, when the humeral head of the upper arm is
stretched in such a way that it separates form the glenoid cup, the rotor cuff
muscles
can
no longer stabilize the shoulder. This would happen when doing
stretching (I prescribe to the theory of never stretching the
shoulder) or when an exercise that used the shoulder muscles are pulled from
what I call an
unnatural position (as in behind the neck pull downs).
There are only two other
ways to working around this problem
short of surgery, one is to modify your workout so that you are less
likely to injury the shoulder; and two
to do those exercises that can strengthen the stabilizer muscle of the
rotor cuff. In my next article I will address modifying the workout to prevent
shoulder injury.
This end part one of this
three part shoulder injury series "The Cause" Part 2 will be
on "The Prevention" of shoulder injury and Part 3 will be on "The
Rehabilitation"
Come back soon and Tell a
friend about us.
God Bless
Troy
My son, pay attention to what I
say; listen closely to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep
them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health
to a man's whole body. (Proverbs 4:20-22)
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