Shoulder pain

Full transcript at: https://beachbarbell.com/shoulder-pain-beach-barbell-podcast/

Good morning is the beach barbell podcast. It's October 21st, 2019 Monday to podcasts into the official name change to match the business name, beach barbell where we do physical therapy and strength training. And of course I am Nick Marquis co owner at beach barbell and currently head coach and head physical therapist. So last podcast I also used a service called the Temi. I think that's the name of it. It does transcription. So I Googled transcripts for podcasts and I'm pretty sure it was one of the top one or two listings and it actually worked out pretty good. It's spelled my name funny, M a R Q, U, I S which does also say marquee, which was interesting. Um, and there I go. It also listed how many times I say, um, and uh, and you know, I think total for all those, there's probably about 150, so I'm going to try to work on that anyways.

Today I wanted to talk about shoulder pain. Sometimes people will start developing shoulder pain. When they lift their arm up, often it will be around shoulder height or they'll feel the most and then when they keep moving the arm up maybe towards their head it starts to diminish. So there's what's called an arc of pain. So you start lifting the arm up, maybe not so much pain. Then as you're getting near shoulder height, which would be probably somewhere about maybe 60 degrees of arm elevation up towards maybe about 120 degrees or so. There could be an arc of pain there. Typically this'll be called shoulder impingement. That term has fallen out of favor of late because of the more modern pain science. And not to mention it's not so clear that impingement is what's going on that is causing the pain. The fact is is that without pain you are quote unquote impinging space in the shoulder when you move into certain positions, but they're not necessarily painful. So blaming impingement on uh, the shoulder pain is not so a clear yes and it's like we've talked about before with back pain, back pain that you know is blamed on herniated discs, slipped discs, you name it when in fact there's something like 40 to 60% of the population that has maybe herniated disks or arthritis in the back but doesn't have pain.