Supraspinatus tear - Curezone Physiotherapy
December 28, 2019

Supraspinatus tear

Supraspinatus is one of the muscles in your rotator cuff of the shoulder. The supraspinatus tear can be a partial thickness where the muscle fibres are not completely disrupted. A complete tear means disruption in all the muscle fibres. This muscle is responsible for lifting your arm up sideways and provide stability to the shoulder joint along with your other rotator cuff muscles.

Supraspinatus Tear Causes

Acute Injury – When you fall down on your out stretched arm or when lifting too heavy objects suddenly.

Degeneration– This type of injury occurs slowly over time due to repeated micro trauma or lack of blood supply.

Risk factors

Older than 40 years

Repetitive lifting or overhead activities.

Tennis players, baseball pitchers, painters or carpenters or those involving in repetitive over head activities at work.

Supraspinatus Symptoms

Snapping sensation and weakness in your arm at the time of Injury.

Pain when lifting and lowering your arm especially sideways.

Pain at rest

Painful lying on your shoulder.

Difficulty lifting objects and over head activities.

Clicking in the joint.

Stiffness in the joint with limited range of motion.

There can be pain that moves down your arm.

Supraspinatus Treatment Approach

Treatment depends on the severity of the tear. For most cases of partial thickness tears conservative management, doctors advise Physiotherapy. A non-operative treatment is used in older patients with an irreversible full thickness tear.

Your Physiotherapist will do an assessment of your shoulder, followed by advice and treatment to control pain and inflammation. You will be asked to avoid positions that cause pain and try to balance activity and rest of affected shoulder. The Initial phase of the treatment consists of the usage of Cryotherapy and electrical modalities with gentle exercises. Further treatment typically incluses increasing the range of movement, improving the control and strength in the muscles. In the final phase of treatment, a strengthening and stretching program, core stability exercises and postural correction exercises will given to prevent re-injury.

Your Physiotherapist will also be able to help you with exercises based on the post operative protocol to regain function, post surgical repair of the tear.

Therapy in Mississauga and Oakville:

Are you suffering from chronic shoulder pain? Particularly pain while lifting stuff? Did you suffer a broken shoulder? Have you considered therapy focused on Supraspinatus for your shoulder?

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