SLUCare Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery specialists developed the following physical therapy protocols for SLUCare clinicians to use when recommending treatment and rehab for SLUCare patients.

Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common cause of those shoulder symptoms? Rotator-cuff disorders.

Recovery after a rotator cuff repair operation requires weeks of restricted shoulder movement, followed by months of physical therapy exercises ... Sometimes the tendon or muscles are so badly ...