Shoulder Pain? How To Test & Fix Your Infraspinatus (Rotator Cuff)

So today we're going to talk a little bit about shoulders shoulder pain

rotator cuff. We're going to mention how it relates to baseball but how it is

important for everyone to understand a little bit more about how the shoulder

works. I am Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life

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don't miss anything. When we have new patients we test all the muscles in the

rotator cuff through applied kinesiology we isolate them and we muscle test them

and the single most common muscle in the body to be compromised is called the

infraspinatus and that's a muscle in the back of your shoulder blade that is an

external rotator so if you hold your arm up like this and you lift the hand

that's called external rotation and it is the infraspinatus muscle that does

that motion so while it does affect a tremendous number of baseball players it

is extremely common in any sort of throwing or any sort of pitching motion

such as football baseball tennis anything overhand and what happens is

that once you throw a ball then there's force as you throw it but then once you

release now that arm keeps on going and something has to slow it down so that it

won't fall out of socket and that muscle that slows it down is the external

rotator that infraspinatus muscle is what slows down this motion and if it

has to do it over and over and over and over you can create little micro trauma

and over time you can develop some trigger points and you can distort the

feedback to the brain so that the brain isn't quite up to speed with how to do

that with the most precise control possible one way you can test this and

I would estimate that in people who play tennis or baseball or do some sort of

pitching motion I would say that probably 70 to 80 percent of people

would have an an inhibited a non-locking infraspinatus so if you want to test it

then you put one hand underneath their elbow you put one hand on top of the

wrist and you push and you rotate the hand their arm the forearm this way it

should give a very precise and firm lock if it does that it is working if it

doesn't then it's not and it hasn't got a lot to do with strength because

someone can be incredibly strong and offer a lot of resistance but it's it

shouldn't give at all and you can also check around the shoulder blade on the

lower half of the shoulder blade if you push and there's a lot of sensitive

trigger points especially points that send sensations into the arm or the hand

then you know that there's a problem there and it's the single most common

problem that we find with the shoulder whether people play baseball or or do

any pitching or not so some of the things that you could do for yourself

and you want to be a little careful is you can lay down on your back on the

floor and you put a tennis ball behind those tender trigger points and you roll

around on the floor and you kind of massage yourself so be careful though

because it's tempting to do a whole lot all at once and you might be sorry

because you get really really sore if you overdo it so start it real carefully

and and see how that works your best option would be to find a chiropractor

who does applied kinesiology who can evaluate this and who knows how to test

it how to adjust it and what the associated organ reflex points are

because everything in the body is connected and if we know what it

connects to on an information level then we can get the problem resolved at a

deeper level so understand that injuries don't really happen without

something being out of balance first. Sure if you fall down the stairs if you

get hit by something forceful you can create an injury, but overuse injuries

don't develop or repetitive use injuries I should say don't develop unless there

is already an imbalance and if we can address that imbalance beforehand and

may get the brain perfectly tuned with the rest of the body then those injuries

are much less likely to occur so hope this information was useful if you have

any experiences with this then don't hesitate to leave some comments let me

know what's been going on in your case if you have questions I'll be do my very

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