How to Make Your Rotator Cuff More Efficient

The cuff works to balance the forces around the glenohumeral joint is that what you're saying absolutely yeah so if we sort of split it up it's literally this initial switch on then there's a direction specific activation depending on the direction you move your arm in. The only place through dynamic movement that we truly co-contract is abduction in the coronal plane but then that's very useful because if we know the movement that an athlete is having a problem with it's very easy to work out which side of the rotator cuff we need to emphasize and potentially change their pain.

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