Shoulder

To prepare for your pre-surgical appointment, please watch videos for Preparing for surgery

 For patients given home exercises, please watch vidoes for Non-operative home exercises

For any questions, please contact your physician at UCSF Sports Medicine at (415) 353-2808 or leave a message for your provider on UCSF My Chart.

Preparing for surgery

 

Videos to watch if you are preparing for:

• shoulder arthroscopy
• rotator cuff repair
• labral repair/ shoulder stabilization
•  total shoulder arthroplasty/proximal humerus fracture fixation
•  clavicle fracture fixation

 

Pre-op instructions (6:45)

Post-op exercises (2.48)

Post-op sling instructions (0:52)

 

Videos to watch if you are preparing for:

• reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA)
• AC joint repair/reconstruction ("separation")

Pre-op instructions (6:45)	Post-op exercises (2:07)	Post-op sling instructions (0:52)
Post-op shower sling

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Non-operative, home-exercise program

Please select from the following injury diagnosis for videos of at-home rehabilitation exercises:  

• Thrower's Ten
• Scapular Stabilization
• Upper Extremity Stretching
• Adhesive Capsulitis
• Rotator Cuff Injury
• Acute Shoulder

Thrower's Ten

Supine Latissimus stretch (0:44)	Wrist flexion (0:45)	Wrist extension (0:44)
	Push-up plus stretch (0:51)
Diagonal extension (0:48)

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Scapular Stabilization

Scapular row (0:43)		Push-up plus stretch (0:51)
Pull Downs (0:49)	Physioball scapular exercises (0:43)
Diagonal extension (0:48)

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Upper Extremity Stretching

Swinging gait stretch (0:38)	Scapular angel wings (0:43)	Posterior shoulder stretch (0:42)
Posterior capsule stretch (0:42)	Pectoralis stretch on foam roller (0:50)	Internal rotation stretch (0:43)
Doorway pectoralis stretch (0:39)	Lateral neck stretch (0:42)

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Adhesive Capsulitis

Shoulder shrugs (0:49)	Scapular squeezes (0:49)	Passive forward flexion (0:58)
Passive external rotation (1:05)	Passive abduction (0:49)	Lateral wall climbers (0:45)
Isometric forward flexion (0:41)	Isometric extension (0:46)	Isometric abduction (0:45)
Internal rotation (0:55)	External rotation (0:59)	Forward wall climbers (0:49)
Scapular Rrow (0:43)

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Rotator Cuff Injury

Shoulder supraspinatus (0:52)	Shoulder shrugs (0:49)	Scapular squeezes (0:49)
Pull downs (0:49)	External rotation (0:59)	Passive forward flexion (0:58)
Passive external rotation (1:05)	Passive abduction (0:49)	Isometric forward flexion (0:41)
Isometric extension (0:46)	Isometric abduction (0:45)	Internal rotation (0:55)
Diagonal extension (0:48)

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Acute Shoulder

Lateral wall climbers (0:45)	Shoulder shrugs (0:49)	Scapular squeezes (0:49)
Passive forward flexion (0:58)	Isometric extension (0:46)	Isometric abduction (0:45)
Shoulder-hanging pendulums (0:54)	Passive external rotation (1:05)	Passive abduction (0:49)
Forward wall climbers (0:49)

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