My name is Dexter Vu and I'm a physical therapist at Los Gatos Orthopaedic Sports Therapy in Los Gatos, California. Here we're going to demonstrate common exercises for the rotator cuff, first one being the side-lying external rotation exercise. So you have the patient lie on his side with his involved shoulder up, he's just going to externally rotate up and down. Initially you can have him start without the weight, then you can progress to manual resistance, concentric only, and then when he's good with that you can do manual resistance, concentric and eccentric, slowing me down, and then progressing to a light dumbbell. Another set of exercises that are effective to target the rotator cuff, next we will demonstrate the prone external rotation. So he's going to have his elbows up, keeping the elbows up you're going to externally rotate to end range, slowly back down, and then to target the scapular stabilizers more, we can move on to the prone T, making sure the thumbs are up and he's getting a nice retraction at the scapula with each repetition, and last being the prone Y, where he's kind of going to that Y formation, making sure there's not excessive shrugging of the shoulder, and all these exercises can be progressed with a light dumbbell. Part of our return to sport testing for upper extremity, we're going to demonstrate the inverted row test. So we're going to have the patient lie down on his back underneath the bar, he's going to grab onto the bar, and then keeping his legs straight he's going to lift his body up to start the test, and then from here he has 15 seconds to perform an inverted row, as many as he can in a row, while keeping good core control. After the 15 seconds are done, he gets about a 45 second break. He's going to do this test three times, and we take an average of three. As part of our return to sport testing for the upper extremity, we're going to demonstrate the seated shot put test. So for this test you're going to have the patient lying flat against, or sitting flat against the wall, with his legs straight. He's going to hold a six-pound medicine ball in one hand, he's going to keep his elbow tucked in, and from here he's going to shoot the ball as far as he can, and I'll do it in all in one motion without bending to the side or any recoil in the arm. We do three trials on the right, three trials on the left, you take an average distance and you compare side to side.

2nd Edition, CASE 50

2nd Edition

Shoulder

rotator cuff exercises

physical therapy

inverted row

seated shot put

scapular stabilizers