At 74, I was scheduled for Rotator Cuff surgery. I followed Dr Mandell's diet program and exercises. It wasn't long before I was able to cancel the surgery appointment with my Dr's full agreement. I could not believe it. Thank you Dr Mandell,
Been dealing with bursitis for 10 months now, the first set of ten stretches and my shoulders feel sooooo good..... thank you.... I'll be doing this on the daily!!
I want to thank you for taking the time to do these videos. To give us the knowledge that we need to know, what mistakes we are making and how to come back from these mistakes the right way. I go to therapy twice a week and when I'm home I'm doing some exercises and stretches that you have showed us with your videos and the relief is for real. thank you Dr Mandell for truly caring for the quality of life of thousands of people around the world who need this knowledge because many people probably don't have the resources to get to a doctor or insurance.
This was incredible Dr. Mandell!!! I started breathing so much better after 3-5 tries. I even began to lull into a deep sleep. You are a Godsend indeed! Many thanks,)!!LeSaf
Wow...at the start I could not raise my arm to my side at all when internally roatated....at the end of my 10 sets of this....there was literally no issue doing that! This frozen shoulder is getting a kick in the pants! Thanks Doc!
I somehow injured a shoulder almost 2 years ago while being inactive. Being low income and falling into a health insurance gap left me with little options for care. I went to a free health clinic and saw a nurse practicioner, no tests or xrays available to me. I was given naproxen sodium, but pretty much treated like my symptoms were not real. At the time I have severe burning in the shoulder ball area, had to keep elbow bent, if I moved my arm or hand slightly a certain way then sharp pains sent up my arm, very limited arm movement. Now it's mostly better but still not full range of motion. I can't fully raise my arm above my head, or if I lean against a wall with arms at 90 degrees to do angel wings for posture, my hand cant rest against the wall it's about 6 inches away from wall, so it not fully recovered. I just found your video and will start practicing to try to recover my movement. Thank you so much for what you have done as I still have limited healthcare access and have to treat most things myself at home.
Hey how are you doing now? Were you able to get a diagnosis as to what your problem was? I've got bursitis in my left shoulder and degenerative disc disease so it's really hard to do all these exercises. But baby steps for me and it's helping.
I love your concise no nonsense videos. I have a deep ache at the base of my lateral deltoid muscle. Is there a stretch or exercise to relieve this discomfort? It does not limit my range of motion. Thank you, Dr M! You are the best.
Wow! Dr. man well I wish I could give you a personal email to thank you for your knowledge and for sharing it with the public free of charge. You give hope to so many people who feel out of control and in such bad pain. I have struggled with bad head forward posture and the aches and pains in my SCM, scalene muscles and sub occipital regions as well as jaw and temporal areas. Boy I am the test book case of HFP! I was using your videos on scalene and SCM muscle trigger points and I felt terrible striking pain and tingling down in my right neck and shoulder and arm. So I looked for more of your videos and found this 2 in 1 stretch. WOW!!!!!! I was in pain doing it but then... I was in no pain at all. I felt like chains of pain had been cut off me. I also felt the scalene and SCM pain back way down!! It is amazing how all our parts are connected. So Dr. M. you have given me hope and you have empowered me to help myself. God bless you. You are a great teacher and doctor. Sincerely- Jennifer D.
Feels better on my shoulders to clasp palms together when doing this exercise. I'd think this would open up the chest more than having palms facing down. Is palms down definitely better? I feel like palms down rotates the shoulders forward which we don't want... Thank you so much, Doc!
This is great !!! Within a week my shoulder tendonitis was gone, as well as the pain in the middle of my back between the shoulder blades that I thought were because of golf. Thank You !
There are several components to neck hump correction. One place I discovered that successfully combines these is the Neck Mender Blueprint (google it if you're interested) it's the no.1 guide that I've seen. Check out the incredible information.
Great tips. Recently noticed that my lounge chair has a rounded back which I believed caused me to have this problem, along with poor posture. Using a warm compress before stretching and exercising the shoulder is a good idea and then icing it after to reduce inflammation is a good idea.
Thank you Doctor Alan, I have a very painful rotator cuff condition at the moment. I am definitely going to try this. Thank you for a clear explanation, it really helped me to understand why I'm in so much pain.
I have injured my muscles n rotator at a bad fall 6 months ago delt with pain too long until one month ago I had a scanner n got bad results,n now I am going to try your method Dr Mandele! Thank you so much for all of us in the world for your videos n God bless you.😍
Doctor Mandell I tried this . I couldn't hold it for even 3 or 4 seconds. You are right. I going to keep trying. But I have been driving, using pc and mobile excessively. I have lot of pain in the shoulder
Now what could cause my right shoulder to crack every time I lift and move my arm forward? If you have any clue, could you do a video on something to help with it a bit?
Dr,I've been suffering frm pain radiating into my left arm since 6 months.and recently pain in both the shoulders also.,pls post more videos to give me relief from pain
I love this video! I've got a quick question about how you do this stretching. Do you need to externally rotate your shoulders first, clasp your fingers and push your palms down? Or it doesn't really matter? I kind of find it difficult to externally rotate my shoulders and then clasp my fingers. Thanks.
Thanks a lot! I've been doing this the last few days and now it feels like externally rotating my shoulders first has become less challenging. Maybe I've got more space around my shoulder area! Again, thanks for the great video!
Can barely get into this position at all. Keeping my elbows completely bent, clasping my hands and retracting my shoulder blades causes a deep and intense stretch. Maybe if I do this regularly it'll loosen up these tight muscles. Will worry about extending towards the floor later. Love all of your content and really appreciate it. Gold mine of information on this channel!
Over the past 5 months I’ve noticed I had more shoulder pain and less range of motion. I tried to do the exercise, but it causes a pinching feeling in my shoulder. I can do it if I take it slow, but I have a feeling I’ve already got a supraspinatus tear.
When my palms are facing downward clasped my shoulders are rotating inward and when they're facing upward clasped they rotate externally. Isn't that the opposite of what you said before the stretch?
I have been doing exercises similar to this but individually, like stretching the chest muscles and working with bands on the rhomboids, scapula drops, etc. I had a frozen scapula that I didn't know about. That is free now. I was literally out of pain. Yesterday I was working with a chain saw at my job, the lightest chain saw on the market, and after 2 hours the job was finished and I have never been in more pain in all my life. 2 Aleve, epsom salt bath, Deep Blue ointment and I managed to relieve the pain. I will try this exercise, but just out of curiosity, what is it I'm trying to achieve here? Am I building the rhomboid muscle? If so, would a rowing exercise benefit? Thank you for trying to help.
What if you're unable to even touch your fingers together in the back? The pain radiates down my left deltoid muscle with excruciating pain that subsides after about 10 seconds? What to do? Is this a different type of injury. I know how I did it ...when I lifted a trash lid up with my elbow while dumping a smaller tran can forward into the bigger one because I had something in my right hand at the time. I felt a pain and now more pain 4 months now. Use to be able to lift my arm to put my hair up but cant now without pain or put on a basball cap. Is this muscle, tendon or rotary cuff? Please respond.
heloo from india ...been following you fro last 15 days helped me to recover from neck sprain, i also have SMALL SLAP TEAR been working out i feel no pain just popping sound should i continue or will it aggravate the injury ?
3 views of shoulders demonstrate :advanced degenerative osteo arthritis of the glenohumeral joint withnarrowing of the joint and osteo phytosis formation.what's your recommendation?
very nice doctor, detaled explanation. can I ask a question about doing overhead shoulder press exercise plz. I often have a minor pain at the top portion of teres major after shoulder pressing exercise. what am I doing wrong..
Really good video, i felt i major difference i my shoulder, when i try lifting up my arm, according to how or wich way i turn my hands. Normally i cant lift it more than 15cm, but now i can lift it all the way up, without it hurting! But the other exercise, i can't use, because i got shortent ligaments in my hands. So that just hurts holding the hands og then pushing like that. But now i know that i am little bit right about whats wrong, and my it hurt like hell! Thanks! :)
went to my chiropractors office to see what to do about about my rotator cuff problem and they said to go to see a doctor... this exercise is extremely painful!
Hey doc. I have trouble keeping my fingers interlaced during the stretch, my pinkies especially. Is that a problem for the effectiveness of the stretch?
At 74, I was scheduled for Rotator Cuff surgery. I followed Dr Mandell's diet program and exercises. It wasn't long before I was able to cancel the surgery appointment with my Dr's full agreement. I could not believe it. Thank you Dr Mandell,
Been dealing with bursitis for 10 months now, the first set of ten stretches and my shoulders feel sooooo good..... thank you.... I'll be doing this on the daily!!
The stretch starts at 4:03.
Thank you doc. God bless you.
Just tried this and it within minutes got rid off my rhomboid pain that I was having for 4 months. Thanks Doc
Great Job!
I want to thank you for taking the time to do these videos. To give us the knowledge that we need to know, what mistakes we are making and how to come back from these mistakes the right way. I go to therapy twice a week and when I'm home I'm doing some exercises and stretches that you have showed us with your videos and the relief is for real. thank you Dr Mandell for truly caring for the quality of life of thousands of people around the world who need this knowledge because many people probably don't have the resources to get to a doctor or insurance.
Blessing to you with love to you and your family
This was incredible Dr. Mandell!!! I started breathing so much better after 3-5 tries. I even began to lull into a deep sleep. You are a Godsend indeed! Many thanks,)!!LeSaf
Love how the explanations are very clear and how easy it is to understand so resourceful
Dr. Mandell , you are a gift from the Lord Himself, thank you!
He saved me a surgery few years back. Thanks
Working now on the left shoulder
You're incredibly WONDERFUL, for helping me and my massage clients work any ailment. Bless your HUGE HEART!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏
Wow...at the start I could not raise my arm to my side at all when internally roatated....at the end of my 10 sets of this....there was literally no issue doing that! This frozen shoulder is getting a kick in the pants! Thanks Doc!
Thank you doctor. Always helpful, always positive, always uplifting.
I somehow injured a shoulder almost 2 years ago while being inactive. Being low income and falling into a health insurance gap left me with little options for care. I went to a free health clinic and saw a nurse practicioner, no tests or xrays available to me. I was given naproxen sodium, but pretty much treated like my symptoms were not real. At the time I have severe burning in the shoulder ball area, had to keep elbow bent, if I moved my arm or hand slightly a certain way then sharp pains sent up my arm, very limited arm movement. Now it's mostly better but still not full range of motion. I can't fully raise my arm above my head, or if I lean against a wall with arms at 90 degrees to do angel wings for posture, my hand cant rest against the wall it's about 6 inches away from wall, so it not fully recovered.
I just found your video and will start practicing to try to recover my movement. Thank you so much for what you have done as I still have limited healthcare access and have to treat most things myself at home.
Hey how are you doing now? Were you able to get a diagnosis as to what your problem was? I've got bursitis in my left shoulder and degenerative disc disease so it's really hard to do all these exercises. But baby steps for me and it's helping.
this guy is brilliant.. ive been following him for the last few weeks,.. thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Your videos are the best. Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤
Absolutely the best practical advice yet. Instant relief. Wow! Thank you so very much!
I love your concise no nonsense videos. I have a deep ache at the base of my lateral deltoid muscle. Is there a stretch or exercise to relieve this discomfort? It does not limit my range of motion. Thank you, Dr M! You are the best.
Wow! Dr. man well I wish I could give you a personal email to thank you for your knowledge and for sharing it with the public free of charge. You give hope to so many people who feel out of control and in such bad pain. I have struggled with bad head forward posture and the aches and pains in my SCM, scalene muscles and sub occipital regions as well as jaw and temporal areas. Boy I am the test book case of HFP! I was using your videos on scalene and SCM muscle trigger points and I felt terrible striking pain and tingling down in my right neck and shoulder and arm. So I looked for more of your videos and found this 2 in 1 stretch. WOW!!!!!! I was in pain doing it but then... I was in no pain at all. I felt like chains of pain had been cut off me. I also felt the scalene and SCM pain back way down!! It is amazing how all our parts are connected. So Dr. M. you have given me hope and you have empowered me to help myself. God bless you. You are a great teacher and doctor. Sincerely- Jennifer D.
Wow, at last, somebody that understands the problem!! Thanking you, been looking for this type of info for a long time!!
Feels better on my shoulders to clasp palms together when doing this exercise. I'd think this would open up the chest more than having palms facing down. Is palms down definitely better? I feel like palms down rotates the shoulders forward which we don't want...
Thank you so much, Doc!
Wow...did that work!!! Thank you a million times!!!!!!!!!!!
This is great !!! Within a week my shoulder tendonitis was gone, as well as the pain in the middle of my back between the shoulder blades that I thought were because of golf. Thank You !
Four weeks out of rotator cuff surgery can’t wait to be able to do this. Great advice and great explanation of the stretch 👍
Thank you so much for all your videos, very much appreciated
There are several components to neck hump correction. One place I discovered that successfully combines these is the Neck Mender Blueprint (google it if you're interested) it's the no.1 guide that I've seen. Check out the incredible information.
wonderful. i love that dr and this a very helpfull stretch thank you doctor mandell
Hello Doctor Mandell, your explanation is clear and useful as always is, I hope it can help me. Thanks a lot.
thank u Doc it was so helpful it relieved my shoulder pain
Great tips. Recently noticed that my lounge chair has a rounded back which I believed caused me to have this problem, along with poor posture. Using a warm compress before stretching and exercising the shoulder is a good idea and then icing it after to reduce inflammation is a good idea.
This is one of my favourites. Good job. Very informational.
Blessings to you and your family
This guy is my hero !
Thank you Doctor Alan, I have a very painful rotator cuff condition at the moment. I am definitely going to try this. Thank you for a clear explanation, it really helped me to understand why I'm in so much pain.
I have injured my muscles n rotator at a bad fall 6 months ago delt with pain too long until one month ago I had a scanner n got bad results,n now I am going to try your method Dr Mandele! Thank you so much for all of us in the world for your videos n God bless you.😍
This is a good stretch - thank you.
thank u Dr. Alan Mandell u are something else. thanks again. wish u the best of The best! ✌
Dear sir,im thankful you that so much for all your videos, very much and appreciated, i hope more videos, thank you, thank you very very much.
Worked for me just right! Many thx boss
Your videos are awesome thanks for all the helpful info
thank you Doc, you make shoulder anatomy look easy
Doctor Mandell I tried this . I couldn't hold it for even 3 or 4 seconds. You are right. I going to keep trying. But I have been driving, using pc and mobile excessively. I have lot of pain in the shoulder
Thanks Doc quite helpful.
Thank you doctor! This exercise really helps!
Good one very good one just what I needed to known thanks Doc 🌺
Now what could cause my right shoulder to crack every time I lift and move my arm forward? If you have any clue, could you do a video on something to help with it a bit?
Thank you, very useful as ever.
Dr,I've been suffering frm pain radiating into my left arm since 6 months.and recently pain in both the shoulders also.,pls post more videos to give me relief from pain
Thanks and God Bless All.
since I do this the rhomboid pain wears off. thumbs up I really like your video
I love this video! I've got a quick question about how you do this stretching. Do you need to externally rotate your shoulders first, clasp your fingers and push your palms down? Or it doesn't really matter? I kind of find it difficult to externally rotate my shoulders and then clasp my fingers. Thanks.
Its still ok without externally rotating.
Thanks a lot! I've been doing this the last few days and now it feels like externally rotating my shoulders first has become less challenging. Maybe I've got more space around my shoulder area! Again, thanks for the great video!
🙏 Gratitude!
Thank you for the wonderful stretches. Can should pain radiate to the upper part of the chest?
Can barely get into this position at all. Keeping my elbows completely bent, clasping my hands and retracting my shoulder blades causes a deep and intense stretch.
Maybe if I do this regularly it'll loosen up these tight muscles. Will worry about extending towards the floor later.
Love all of your content and really appreciate it. Gold mine of information on this channel!
Thank you!! Thank you!!! So glad I found you :) !
Great instructor!
This actually works. Trapped nerve appears to be ‘untrapped’ now. Cheers.
Over the past 5 months I’ve noticed I had more shoulder pain and less range of motion. I tried to do the exercise, but it causes a pinching feeling in my shoulder. I can do it if I take it slow, but I have a feeling I’ve already got a supraspinatus tear.
Thanks very much , Doc👍👍.
Thanks Doc love your videos! G'day from Australia 🇦🇺
Very good exercise magical thanks doctor.
Mate, great stretches. Thank you.
Thank u my Doc
U are a blessing
When my palms are facing downward clasped my shoulders are rotating inward and when they're facing upward clasped they rotate externally. Isn't that the opposite of what you said before the stretch?
Thanks Doc👍🏾
Hi Doc, I love the channel!! What if you can't do this strech because I am too big!! Any suggestions??
I have been doing exercises similar to this but individually, like stretching the chest muscles and working with bands on the rhomboids, scapula drops, etc. I had a frozen scapula that I didn't know about. That is free now. I was literally out of pain. Yesterday I was working with a chain saw at my job, the lightest chain saw on the market, and after 2 hours the job was finished and I have never been in more pain in all my life. 2 Aleve, epsom salt bath, Deep Blue ointment and I managed to relieve the pain. I will try this exercise, but just out of curiosity, what is it I'm trying to achieve here? Am I building the rhomboid muscle? If so, would a rowing exercise benefit? Thank you for trying to help.
Thank You!!
great info.. many thanks!
Thank you!
🌺🙏🏽🌺
Thank you! Doc
what if you can't put your hands behind your back? Is there a preliminary stretch to e able to get to that point?
Thank You .
thanks Alan very helpful
Thank you. The best !!
Superbbb sir....thanks a lot sir 🙏👏
God bless you !!!
this really happens with me thanks for help
Great video!!!
awesome dr. thanks
very helpfull.thank u
another awesome video tht will help to make it a good day. Thank you dr mandelle. bless u. GN:)
You the man
What if you're unable to even touch your fingers together in the back? The pain radiates down my left deltoid muscle with excruciating pain that subsides after about 10 seconds? What to do? Is this a different type of injury. I know how I did it ...when I lifted a trash lid up with my elbow while dumping a smaller tran can forward into the bigger one because I had something in my right hand at the time. I felt a pain and now more pain 4 months now. Use to be able to lift my arm to put my hair up but cant now without pain or put on a basball cap. Is this muscle, tendon or rotary cuff? Please respond.
Thanks
🙏Thank you
doc, you saved my life!!! thanks for sharing this video! :)
heloo from india ...been following you fro last 15 days helped me to recover from neck sprain, i also have SMALL SLAP TEAR been working out i feel no pain just popping sound should i continue or will it aggravate the injury ?
Should be careful you're not making it worse
i am feeling stronger lifting weights and when i am done lifting the sound goes away
Thank you I've finally found your video for Supafraspinatus, will this work for the Ifraspinatus?
Im going try this exercise out
Going to try this
3 views of shoulders demonstrate :advanced degenerative osteo arthritis of the glenohumeral joint withnarrowing of the joint and osteo phytosis formation.what's your recommendation?
very nice doctor, detaled explanation. can I ask a question about doing overhead shoulder press exercise plz. I often have a minor pain at the top portion of teres major after shoulder pressing exercise. what am I doing wrong..
Stretch before
Stretch the pecs
motivationaldoc thank you doctor😊
Really good video, i felt i major difference i my shoulder, when i try lifting up my arm, according to how or wich way i turn my hands. Normally i cant lift it more than 15cm, but now i can lift it all the way up, without it hurting! But the other exercise, i can't use, because i got shortent ligaments in my hands. So that just hurts holding the hands og then pushing like that. But now i know that i am little bit right about whats wrong, and my it hurt like hell! Thanks! :)
Can sleeping position cause this problem Dr? 😭
thank you
Works! Thanx
Can 3 centemeters tear heals without operation please greetings from Malta
thank you you're so helpful how can I find you are you in South Florida
thanks dc
went to my chiropractors office to see what to do about about my rotator cuff problem and they said to go to see a doctor... this exercise is extremely painful!
Search for my other videos on bursitis and frozen shoulder
How to squeeze them? Like from outside to inside or just back with shoulders? My hands are hurting
Hey doc. I have trouble keeping my fingers interlaced during the stretch, my pinkies especially. Is that a problem for the effectiveness of the stretch?
Try using a towel, a stretchy sock, or an exercise band. Good luck!
Ok, but can’t get my fingers together behind- too painful & it “locks”. Any way to modify it?