Explanation of Rotator Cuff Symptoms
Your rotator cuff is a very important part of your body. The rotator cuff is made up of four muscles and that help stabilize the shoulder and provide some of it’s movement. Rotator cuff symptoms depend on the nature of the injury to the muscles involved. There are three types of injuries and accompanying symptoms - chronic tears, acute tears, and tendinitis.
Chronic tears of the rotator cuff are usually in a person’s dominant arm. The pain usually gets worse over a period of time, and it may be noticed that the pain is worst at night - even intervering with sleep in some cases. Rotator cuff symptoms in people with chronic tears also include difficulty and pain when trying to lift the arm out to the side (a function of some of the rotator cuff muscles).
Rotator cuff symptoms experienced by people with acute tears (much quicker injuries), include feeling an actual tear occuring which turns into pain shooting down the arm. This type of pain is usually very severe and can include muscle spasms which limit arm motion. There will often be a single point of worse pain at the location of the actual rotator cuff tear.
The pain and symptoms caused by rotator cuff tendinitis are different from what is experienced with actual tears of the muscle. This pain is due to inflammation of the tendons (which connect muscle to bone) and is more of a deep ache within the actual shoulder. You could also have this feeling on the upper and outer aspect of your arm, or one point that is the worst pain. This pain gradually worsens and the tendinitis can possibly lead to a chronic rotator cuff tear.
If you are having shoulder pain, you should consult a doctor for medical advice. Rotator cuff symptoms should not be too difficult to figure out and there are many rotator cuff exercises that have the potential to help reduce your symptoms. The Rotator Cuff Training Guide has many exercises that can help fix many of your rotator cuff symptoms. Click here to learn more about it.
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