What do pendulums do for shoulder?
Lying Pendulum Exercises This exercise helps relax the muscles of the shoulder and neck and allows for passive range of motion of the shoulder joint. It’s best for people who have a difficult time with the standing exercise due to balance or back pain.
What are shoulder pendulum exercises?
How Do You Do Shoulder Pendulums Correctly?
- Allow the arm to hang toward the floor and relax the muscles of the shoulder.
- Move the upper body in a gentle swaying motion from side to side – or in small circles.
- The arm moves as a result of the upper body swaying.
What is the pendulum stretch?
Pendulum stretch Relax your shoulders. Stand and lean over slightly, allowing the affected arm to hang down. Swing the arm in a small circle — about a foot in diameter. Perform 10 revolutions in each direction, once a day. As your symptoms improve, increase the diameter of your swing, but never force it.
When do you start pendulum exercises after shoulder surgery?
This exercise can be done several times a day within the first 2 weeks following surgery. The posture of the pendulum exercise—leaning forward and allowing the arm to dangle—can also be a safe and useful way for patients to change clothing or wash under their affected arm following surgery.
How often should you do pendulum exercises?
Let gravity gently sway your arm. Do not actively lift or move it with your shoulder muscles. Do the exercise 3 times a day, for 5 to 10 minutes each time, or as your healthcare provider told you to do. Change the direction of your movement after 1 minute of motion.
How often should I do pendulum exercises?
What are Codman exercises?
The original Codman/pendulum exercise was described as a small movement of the upper extremity while bent over to patient comfort. The initiation of arm movement in this exercise is to be created by the body performing rocking or swaying motions, allowing the effected shoulder to hang and move passively.
What is the purpose of pendulum exercises?
Stretching exercises for your shoulder, such as the pendulum exercise, can improve flexibility, increase range of motion, and reduce pain. Your healthcare provider or physical therapist has advised this exercise to help speed your healing.
What is Elephant Trunk swing exercise?
Using the momentum from your hips and legs, guide the slightly swinging arm back and forth like a pendulum (or elephant trunk), then in circles that start small (about the size of a dinner plate) and gradually grow larger each day as pain allows.
When to use Pendulum exercise for shoulder pain?
The pendulum exercise, also known as Codman’s Pendulums, are frequently used for patients with shoulder pathologies to provide gentle joint distraction and joint oscillation to reduce pain.
What was the original Codman / Pendulum exercise?
The original Codman/pendulum exercise was described as a small movement of the upper extremity while bent over to patient comfort. The initiation of arm movement in this exercise is to be created by the body performing rocking or swaying motions, allowing the effected shoulder to hang and move passively.
What’s the safer alternative to Codman’s pendulums?
The safer and more effective exercise to use instead of Codman’s pendulums is the “Rock the Baby” exercise – I can’t remember if that’s the exact name of the exercise, but that’s what I tell to patients.
Which is better arm hang or Pendulum exercise?
Due to the frequent misinterpretation regarding the pendulum exercises, it is the opinion of this therapist that arm “hangs” are a safe alternative to the pendulum swings. I believe the same gentle traction effect can still be achieved while ensuring range of motion is strictly passive.
