5 Simple Exercises to Loosen Up your Shoulders & Shoulder Blades! #shoulderworkout #shoulderexercises #shoulderpain | Physical Therapy Session

Shoulder “Warm-Ups”: Expanding ROM, After exploring and priming the full outer most range of motion, it would make sense to then do something geared towards expanding a particular range. For this we did PAILs/RAILs for external rotation, progressive/regressive angular isometric loading, with a TRX strap. This is just isometric contractions at end range of motion and can be done in a few different set ups, but this one can be altered to train multiple degrees of ER to prime the end range. As with

Prime your shoulders! This is a great exercise to show you end range control & ROM of your shoulder external rotation! You might need these if you: ➡️ Struggle going overhead ➡️ Struggle getting the bar into the back rack (for a back squat) ➡️ Have “tight lats” And many more! I use and prescribe PAILs/RAILs pretty much daily for that reason. There’s a lot of different ways to do these, but I recommend driving hand ⬇️ into an object for :05, then pull your hand ⬆️ for :05 (using the back of your