Don’t Suffer With Shoulder Pain

Our physiotherapists are experts in treatment for people suffering with shoulder injury.

At SportsFit, our shoulder physios can help diagnose your condition, understand the cause of your pain, and provide evidence-based treatment to help you recover. By helping you relieve your symptoms through non-invasive techniques, we can help you return to the activities you love.

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What We Help With

Some of the most common shoulder conditions we treat include:

  • Rotator-cuff strains & tears
  • AC joint injury
  • Post subluxation / dislocation
  • Frozen shoulder (also known as adhesive capsulitis)
  • Shoulder osteo-arthritis
  • Post-surgery rehab (reconstruction, arthroscopes)
  • Tendinopathy & muscle strains
  • Impingement

How We Help You Recover With Shoulder Pain

Our clinicians provide the best treatment, as we believe in a tailored approach to ensure you get the best results. Treatment will generally include:

  • Accurate Diagnosis. It’s important first to understand what your diagnosis is through a thorough assessment.
  • Objective testing. Our testing (range, control, strength) is important for not only diagnosing, but it helps determine factors that contribute to your pain.
  • Hands-on treatment. Our shoulder physios are skilled in multiple techniques (massage, joint mobilization, stretching) to address all the factors that have caused your symptoms and help you recover faster.
  • Exercise & Rehab. Exercise is medicine, and this is no different for the shoulder. For most shoulder conditions, exercise is the most powerful and evidence-backed treatment tool. At SportsFit, you will be provided with detailed exercises which will target your specific condition.
  • Educate & Empower. The more knowledge you have, the more you understand what to do. This helps you recover faster, while also preventing further episodes of shoulder pain in the future.

A comprehensive treatment plan will not only look to reduce your pain and settle your symptoms, but should prevent it occurring again.

What Causes Shoulder Pain?

Most shoulder injuries can be categorized as an acute injury or an overuse / chronic injury.

  • Acute shoulder pain. These injuries occur a particular incident such as a fall, hit on the shoulder or during throwing. Some of the most common acute injuries include subluxations/dislocations, sprains in the AC or gleno-humeral joint and rotator cuff tears
  • Overuse shoulder pain. A majority of shoulder conditions are a result of muscle imbalance due to weakness, posture, biomechanics or loading. These may increase over time or due to a sudden overload on the tissues such as a weekend of painting.

Both overuse and acute trauma can cause injuries to the shoulder structures.

What Causes Pain

Some common source of pain includes

  • Tendons (particularly the rotator cuff)
  • Bursa (sub-acromial bursa)
  • AC Joint or Glenohumeral joint (including cartilage, capsule and ligaments)
  • Bones including the clavicle (collar bone), scapula (shoulder blade) and humerus (arm bone)
  • Nerves
  • Referral (from the neck or upper back)

Many shoulder conditions also present with other symptoms including noises (pop, clicks), instability, pins & needles and numbness

Why Choose SportsFit

At Sportsfit Physio & Health our shoulder physiotherapists have all the tools to ensure you have a full recovery. Some of the treatments that we offer to help recover from your pain include:

FAQ’s

No, you do not need a referral.

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Our initial physiotherapy session is 30 minutes, and any follow is usually 30 minutes. We do offer 60 minute sessions also.

Yes, in fact sporting injuries are one of our specialties. We have helped shoulder pain athletes particularly from sports including football, basketball, netball, cricket and swimming.

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Yes, we can refer for any investigations if we think they are required. This includes X-rays and MRI scans.

Yes. We offer Clinical Pilates and provide tailored programs to help people recover with shoulder injury.

Want To Learn More?

Our clinicians are APA physiotherapists and regularly stay up-to-date with the latest evidence on shoulder pain treatment.

Evidence for Treatment of Shoulder Pain

Ready To Recover From Shoulder Pain?

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