Raise your hand if you have ever had someone tell you that they suffer from impingement?
Subacromial Impingement can be attributed to nearly 50% of shoulder complaints that are seen by orthopedics or other healthcare professionals.
Turns out, your issue may not be impingement at all.
Recent research has debunked the myth that is subacromial impingement.
Here is a synopsis of what the full article outlined:
In the past it was presented that rotator cuff issues were caused by tendons being impinged in the subacromial space. The thought was that issues like a hooked acromion caused damage to rotator cuff tendons due to narrowed subacromial space, leading to symptoms of impingement. More recently,
Impingement as a cause of rotator cuff disease has been questioned.
Rotator cuff disease is now believed to be a form of tendinopathy similar to tendinopathies in other parts of the body. It is believed to be overuse tendinopathy and not a form of tendinitis.
What is the point of this info?
Tendinopathies respond extremely well to conservative management, like physical therapy. The muscles and tendons in our body want to be loaded. When we load them, how we load them and frequency of loading matters.
If you believe you may be suffering from “impingement” give us a call!
