Bulletproof Your Shoulder: Optimizing Shoulder Function to End Pain and Resist Injury

done EXACTLY as recommended. They are easy enough to do so why wouldn't you do them right?I'm 63 and first injured my shoulder over 40 years ago (rotator cuff) playing college baseball. Twelve years ago, I re-injured that shoulder when I returned to lifting weights too fast. Doctor had told me there was nothing fundamentally wrong with my shoulder but that I could expect continuing tendonitis. I just accepted my fate until......a few months ago. I discussed this with a friend who works as a rehabilitation therapist for professional athletes. She suggested starting with all of the exercises listed in this book. She also suggested returning to a regular program of lifting weights if I felt up to it later. After a couple of months, I can report that my shoulders are already much stronger and pain-free. I have already expanded into adding upper body dumb bell training to strengthen my arms and back as a better support foundation for my shoulders. Yes, I am very annoying to be around these days.Only one minor criticism about the book. I believe Dr. Johnson's logic in answering the question of how often you should exercise is flawed. As he points out, the studies he reviewed focused only on specific age groups or specific exercises. There are studies that have researched question based on what happens to muscles as we age. Optimum recovery time gets longer and longer as we age. How long depends mostly on genetics but we all slow down. Minor criticism but it really is about your age, inherited genetics and how well you have taken care of yourself. It's up to the doctor to assess the patient's ability to read his/her own body signals, especially in regards to discerning between muscle pain associated with getting in shape in the first place, incremental muscle pain from cranking up the weight/reps and tendon soreness which is ALWAYS an injury requiring rest. I don't have the answer but I believe that a better answer could be found in muscle aging research rather than in exercise research.FWIW, I workout six days a week on average. On alternating days, I have two routines. One one, I run, do sit-ups, push-ups and stretching 3-4. On the other, I do upper-body dumb-bell training (including the exercises in this book). I rest 2-3 days every month. I've been a very fit old guy for a long time only with a sore shoulder for the last 12 years. Now I'm just a very fit old guy with an annoying story about how I used to have a sore shoulder. I can't win.

ALERT - SAME AUTHOR HAS WRITTEN "TREAT YOUR OWN ROTATOR CUFF". SAME BOOK ALMOST VERBATIM! DON'T GET BOTH! I THINK THE OTHER ONE IS BETTER. THIS IS MY REVIEW OF THE OTHER BOOK... WHICH COULD JUST AS WELL BE FOR THIS BOOK, BECAUSE THEY ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL - SAME DIAGRAMS, ETC...I read the reviews before buying this book and there are some critics that say everything in this book is simple and you can find everything in it on the internet. Well, what can't you find on the internet??? I didn't research the author on the internet but from reading the book I feel confident that the author is not a hack who compiled internet-gleaned information into an ebook-for profit, but is, as claimed, an experienced Physical Therapist with many years of practice that has put together a medically researched and easy to follow ebook... for-profit. Yes, the price is too high for the size of the book and I thought about giving it 4 stars because of that, but the content is 5-stars in my opinion, and for someone wanting to get out of pain, I wanted them to find my review under 5 stars.I felt that rather than surfing the internet, I had a concise, easy-to-follow do-it-yourself book in my hands that was easier to follow and trust than looking through a myriad of internet pages. The first chapters are educational on anatomy, a good, simple overview for theory. Yes, the stretching and strengthening exercises which follow are simple. So what??? That's the good news! Recovery is not that complicated, you just have to do it.I'm happy I bought this book but unhappy I bought "Bulletproof Your Shoulder". I didn't notice it they are by the same author. "Bullet Proof" was written later and is just this book almost verbatim in a different format. I feel "Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff" is presented in a more logical sequence. Don't buy both books.

I have had 6 left shoulder open reconstructive surgeries over the past 8 years. Actually, within a 7 year period I had 6 surgeries. If counting, that is more than 1 a year. Its a long saga, so I will not bore you,....however,...I had a lot of damage in my shoulder and neck from a bad fall. In a contest in Colorado years ago (free riding mountain contest), I was experienced and knew what I was doing. But, I ended up 'rolling the windows down' mid air and not recovering. I landed upside down on my left shoulder and neck from about 25 feet above and onto packed snow surface (not powder). It hurt. It healed wrong, then I had the first of many surgeries to repair Acromio-clavicular, fractured clavicle in two places, torn labrum, bone spurs, nerve damage, glenhumoral dislocation at highest level. The surgeries kept failing within a week. A cadaver tendon was used to secure my A/C joint...that failed. Then we used my own wrist tendon (yep, so much for wakeboarding again :(...no, I still do with brace). Anyway, I say all of that to say that this book caught my attention because it discusses the most important aspects of living with a chronically painful shoulder. My shoulder will NEVER be the same, however, I can do my part and strengthen ALL the surrounding muscles and tendons through specific and direct exercises, I can overcompensate for the instability in my shoulder and reduce my pain overall. IT HAS WORKED. You have to actually do the exercises religiously and read the book at least once. I made note cards of exercises and posted. You may ask why I am telling you this book is so important? Because I want to stay active and love to do what I love to do (wakeboard, snowboard, golf, etc.) and by strengthening my good muscles I make my shoulder much stronger so it can carry the damaged parts of the shoulder with less pain.

Very good book on shoulders and advice how to look after them as well as pain .I strongly recommend reading it

Subluxed my shoulder climbing (for the third time), and decided to take the physio seriously. Was looking for an additional resource and found this gem.Author does a great job of simplifying shoulder function, and giving a CONCISE and effective rehab program. I mixed in some exercises my physio gave me but basically kept the structure of the program in the book. After 6 weeks I was back climbing and feeling much stronger than before.

MY SON FOUND THIS BOOK VERY USEFUL

Was recovering from an injured shoulder so read and followed the exercises in the book and my shoulder is much better. Yeah, the book is pretty short and quite expensive but it did the job and I feel better educated as a result so I'm happy to pay the money.

just starting to read but its explaining a lot of things you may not have thought of with shoulder issues