Interesting. I have actually been doing this for my back. Every day I’m at the gym I will hang for 30secs or so a couple times. Helps decompress the spine too.Anyone else do shoulder hangs? I thought I was gonna have to have surgery but after doing this for almost 2 years I am way better with far less pain and far less tweaks and injuries, in fact I cannot recall the last time I hurt my shoulders. Worth a try fellas. Takes time but makes a huge diff. Start small and work up. Seriously, do not go hard from the start.
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Just Hanging Out for Shoulder Health and Pain Relief
Having shoulder pain caused by poor posture? The simple exercise of hanging by your arms can help make it feel better.www.nifs.org
"Dr. John M. Kirsch is a practicing orthopedic surgeon with over 30 years of experience in treating patients with wide-ranging issues when it comes to the shoulder girdle. He is the author of Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention, in which he details exercise and rehabilitative exercise protocols to help alleviate or eliminate shoulder pain. He found that in 90% of his patient population who were expected to have shoulder surgery, prescribing one movement as an alternative actually eliminated their pain altogether. And this movement is the brachial dead hang."
Think I was lucky. OHPs would always aggravate my shoulders so I stopped doing them early on. Front and side raises while not as glamorous did the job. Think I have decent sized shoulders.
Great find! Good info, I need to start doing this.Anyone else do shoulder hangs? I thought I was gonna have to have surgery but after doing this for almost 2 years I am way better with far less pain and far less tweaks and injuries, in fact I cannot recall the last time I hurt my shoulders. Worth a try fellas. Takes time but makes a huge diff. Start small and work up. Seriously, do not go hard from the start.
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Just Hanging Out for Shoulder Health and Pain Relief
Having shoulder pain caused by poor posture? The simple exercise of hanging by your arms can help make it feel better.www.nifs.org
"Dr. John M. Kirsch is a practicing orthopedic surgeon with over 30 years of experience in treating patients with wide-ranging issues when it comes to the shoulder girdle. He is the author of Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention, in which he details exercise and rehabilitative exercise protocols to help alleviate or eliminate shoulder pain. He found that in 90% of his patient population who were expected to have shoulder surgery, prescribing one movement as an alternative actually eliminated their pain altogether. And this movement is the brachial dead hang."
You know I do.Anyone else do shoulder hangs? I thought I was gonna have to have surgery but after doing this for almost 2 years I am way better with far less pain and far less tweaks and injuries, in fact I cannot recall the last time I hurt my shoulders. Worth a try fellas. Takes time but makes a huge diff. Start small and work up. Seriously, do not go hard from the start.
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Just Hanging Out for Shoulder Health and Pain Relief
Having shoulder pain caused by poor posture? The simple exercise of hanging by your arms can help make it feel better.www.nifs.org
"Dr. John M. Kirsch is a practicing orthopedic surgeon with over 30 years of experience in treating patients with wide-ranging issues when it comes to the shoulder girdle. He is the author of Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention, in which he details exercise and rehabilitative exercise protocols to help alleviate or eliminate shoulder pain. He found that in 90% of his patient population who were expected to have shoulder surgery, prescribing one movement as an alternative actually eliminated their pain altogether. And this movement is the brachial dead hang."
I think it has worked well when I couple it with the fact I stopped all over head pressing, minus W press. The only things I do for shoulders are raises and laterals and except for the Dusty Hanshaw side lateral superset where you do full range of motion to failure then double the weight for partials for the same number of reps, my form is really, really strict. All other laterals and raises are done so that I am completely isolating the delts. Except for the superset I mentioned all others are done from a braced position taking the core out of the equation. If you take an incline bench and pin your side to that damn thing and do a single arm side lateral with no momentum, 20 lbs gets heavy really fast.GF, how’s this working since this post I’m planning to try this approach. I really want to avoid surgery.
Amen BRO! I have osteoarthritis on both shoulders. 27 years as a competitive powerlifter.My shoulders are terrible. The pain of calcified tendonitis from years of putting heavy shit up over my head is pretty much at a level where I contemplate not lifting at all anymore.
Whenever you see young people in your gym doing heavy presses just tell them this.
Shoulders are a bitch. You get one set. When you ruin them, you are done for. Take the time to go on youtube and watch at least a dozen videos on rotator cuff exercises with bands and do them a few times a week at home. You will never regret it.
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