 Rotator
Cuff Syndrome
What is Rotator Cuff
Syndrome?
Your rotator cuff is
a very powerful team of muscles and connecting
tendons that attach your upper arm to your shoulder
blade. The rotator cuff helps you reach, throw, push,
pull, and lift. The pain occurs when the tendons in your
rotator cuff are swollen. There are several things that
can cause this area to hurt if you fall on your
shoulder, or lifting and reaching too much, or if you
threw too many pitches.
Symptoms
- Pain when you bend the
arm and rotate it outwards against resistance.
- Pain on the outside of
the shoulder possibly radiating down into the
arm.
- Pain in the shoulder,
which is worse at night.
- Stiffness in the
shoulder joint.
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