Rotator Cuff Injury

By: Esmeralda Popoca

 Officer Smith
Mrs. Smith is a 54-year-old woman who is a police
officer. She presented with s/p (R) rotator cuff repair
and debridement, May 21,2021. Her original injury
occurred when she fell forward and put both hands
down to project her face during a police pursuit on
July 15,2019.

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 Interventions
 Upper Body Ergometer (UBE)
 Thoracic Extension Over A Foam Roller
 Thoracic Rotation (Open Book)
 Scapular Retraction with Elastic Band
 Prone extension with 2-pound weight
 Shoulder flexion with 2-pound weight
 Bilateral scaption with 2-pound weight

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 Push Sled
Purpose :Functional exercise
Benefit: Full body workout targets
quadriceps, glutes, calves,
hamstrings, abdominals, hip flexor,
chest, triceps, and shoulder .

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 Carry Box
Purpose: Function exercise
Benefit: Strengthen upper extremity and help with
postural

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“Are Pulley Exercises Initiated 6 Weeks After
Rotator Cuff Repair a Safe and Effective
Rehabilitative Treatment?”
Hypothesis: “Rotator cuff repair patient treated with pulley exercises would have increased
scapular substitution and inferior patient determine outcome scores, range of motion and strength
compared with patient treated with an alternative rehabilitation program without pully”
Conclusion “A rotator cuff repair rehabilitation program that uses pulley does not result in inferior
outcomes, as determined by patient determined outcome scores, measurements of scapular
substitution range of motion, and scaption strength.”

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“Immediate and short-term effect of kinesiotaping on
muscular activity, mobility, strength and pain after
rotator cuff surgery a crossover clinical trial”
Purpose: To determine the immediate and short-term effects of shoulder KT on
muscular activity, mobility, strength and pain after rotator cuff surgery.
Results: “Modification in muscle activity were observed with KT. Major changes in
terms of decrease recruitment of the upper trapezius were observed with KT. Also
increase flexion ROM at 6 week, but the differences with the no tape condition were
insufficient to be clinically important”.

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 References
• Baumgarten, K. M., Osborn, R., Schweinle, W. E., Jr, Zens, M. J., & Helsper, E. A.
(2016). Are Pulley Exercises Initiated 6 Weeks After Rotator Cuff Repair a Safe and
Effective Rehabilitative Treatment? A Randomized Controlled Trial. The American
journal of sports medicine, 44(7), 1844–1851.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546516640763
 Reynard, F., Vuistiner, P., Léger, B., & Konzelmann, M. (2018). Immediate and
short-term effects of kinesiotaping on muscular activity, mobility, strength and pain
after rotator cuff surgery: a crossover clinical trial. BMC musculoskeletal
disorders, 19(1), 305. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2169-5