Shoulder Pain: Physical And Emotional Causes

I had seldom stopped to think that I had to exercise my shoulders. Inspiration came to me when, when I went to perform a movement with them, the pain suddenly appeared. A joint that I thought was capable of moving in all directions suddenly warned me that it has limits.

Weights have fallen on my shoulder, with it I have lifted and carried objects, I have pulled him close to push, he has hit, dislocated and stretched, and he has contracted with both physical and psychological pain, indicating his limits in movement and posture. .

In colloquial language, the shoulder helps us to bring him closer to others and offer our collaboration ; to shrug our shoulders when we are indifferent; and to look above or below in contempt or submission. His movement has a psychological perspective as well as a physical one.

The design of the joint allows it to be moved in all directions. The shoulders are strong and flexible: they allow you to throw a baseball or tennis ball with force and speed, or to lightly throw an egg into the air and pick it up gently without breaking.

Taking care of our shoulders

But heavy loads, grips and supports to survive, blows, falls, bad postures with the computer mouse and life’s setbacks also fall on the shoulder every day . When we review the ligaments, capsules, muscles, tendons that surround the shoulder joint, we see that it not only has physical limits, but also psychological ones.

When trying to get past them, the pecs grab and compress the chest, creating anguish and tightness.

How many times have we had to shrug and remain shrugged our shoulders, have we lacked expressiveness to move through life or have we been afraid to express the feelings that come out of the chest, the contractures, the fears, the humiliations that prevented us from freedom of movement ?

Our shoulders may have endured falls, dislocations, muscle injuries, periarthritis, bursitis, and offenses. From all this, they will have recovered and emerged gracefully, or rather they will have maintained as they could, but the simple fact of thinking about them, knowing that we can take care of them and even rehabilitate them, puts us in a disposition of physical, psychological and improvement. social of enormous possibilities.

How to slacken your shoulders

To be able to reach out, that is, to collaborate, you first have to know where the limits of your own shoulder are. Every day is good for recovering your shoulders, knowing your limits, knowing how to reach them and, without causing pain, finding the best way to move them to regain all their mobility, all their physical, psychological and social potential.

• Rotational movements. Do a rotational movement of the shoulder joint. First perform 5 rotations in one direction and then reverse the movement and to make the rotation in the other direction. You can move both shoulders at the same time or move one shoulder first and then the other.
• Tension and loosen. Shrug your shoulders, tense, and then relax.
• Apply water to relax. Direct a stream of water towards the painful area. Start with the feet reaching the hips, to continue through the hand and the arm up to the shoulder, stay a few seconds there and descend.