For healthy shoulders

Use your screwdriver correctly !

This movement is called the ‘screwdriver’. As a manual soft tissue therapist repetitive strain injuries of the shoulder were always some of the most common injuries I would be treating.

This exercise is not only going to help you develop and maintain mobility of the shoulder but also going to help you prevent injuries of it!

Prerequisites: Active deep squat. If this cannot be achieved right now do it from sitting.

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1. From Deep Squat

• Get into a Deep squat. Rock forward and back

• Rock in clockwise and counter clockwise

2. Activate the deep squat

• Press through your feet down into the ground and contract through the thighs

3. Thoracic Rotation.

• From the active deep squat. Bring the back of the right arm to right shin. With the right hand grab the right heel.

• With the left hand grab the back of your neck and twist to look at the ceiling extending the left arm up high as you can

• Option 1. Is to tense through the fingertips, forearms and upper arms then begin the rotation inwardly and outwardly (internal and external rotation) . Make sure you are moving through the shoulder and keep reaching the arm up toward the ceiling

• Option 2. Is to make a fist as if you were holding a screwdriver and tense through the whole arm and begin the rotations making sure you are moving through the shoulder and keep reaching the arm up toward the ceiling.

Note: Make sure to do both sides