Rotator Cuff Injury Exercise
Rotator cuff injury can be quite painful and annoying because you won't be able to do anything that involuves overhead arm motions such as swimming, weight lifting or any racket sports. This is because your rotator cuff is experiencing strain, tendinitis and partial tears.
Fortunately, there are many good rotator cuff injury exercise which you can do to help speed up the recovery of your rotator cuff. Regardless, you are also required to rest often to help recovery time.
One of the best and effective rotator cuff injury exercises is called the downward lateral pulls. You will need to have access to a lat machine in order to perform this exercise.
First of all, just hold the bar over your head with the elbows bent. Make sure that your elbows are not higher than your shoulders. Then pull the bar down toward your head and let the weight raise the bar slowly. You should do this rotator cuff injury exercise for about 1-2 minutes. Make sure that you do it slowly and don't try to rush or do more than you should as you might cause unnecessary stress to your rotator cuff and make it harder to recover.