Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention: Fifth Edition Revised and Expanded

Amazing! Worked for Me. I read the entire book.
I’ve had recurring extreme shoulder pain for the past 15 years and have gone to doctors and had physical therapy on three separate occasions to “unlock” the shoulder, very expensive each time. Totally derailed me from learning and playing guitar and made painful just driving to work and made sleeping difficult. This latest bout with shoulder pain started in January and never got better even through June, and sleep was impossible and I couldn’t even lift my right arm 30 degrees from my waist before getting spikes of pain in my shoulder, I could not go to sleep and was going crazy. Why is this happening to me…?Started to research online and came across a couple youtuber physical therapists and they were doing a thing on shoulder pain and recommended this book (written by an Orthopedic Surgeon) and found it on amazon for only $10. This is much less than a copay and physical therapy so I purchased it. Its a quick read albeit a bunch of it can get a bit medical science as to why the pain exists, but the reasoning was sound so I did the Hanging and eventually the recommended exercises.June. Simply was doing the hanging exercises with some pendulum arm swings and finger wall crawl exercises to unlock the arm. Immediate improvement and I could sleep again after just the first day. Exercises were painful (expected from the book), and my arms were week so had to do multiple sessions 15 seconds of hanging reps 2 or 3 times a day. Nearly every day.July. Added the shoulder straight arm raise exercises recommended by the book, no weights. Still doing hanging but more like 4 times a week but arms are stronger and can hang for 30 second reps for 5 reps and doing this once per day 4 or 5 times per week. There is still some pain in the shoulder but mostly just feels amazing after the hanging.August add weights to the straight arm raising exercises and still hanging for 60 second reps 4 or 5 reps, once per day. Probably 80 to 90% of the pain is gone from the shoulder, but is still a nuisance especially while doing work at the computer.It is now December and there is little to no pain in my shoulder. I have only been doing “maintenance” since October: twice a week doing the hanging 4 reps @ 60 seconds and shoulder exercises which cost me about 20 to 30 min a session. I have no issues at the computer and can play guitar again, and I can do a full regimen of weight room free weight exercises I haven’t done in years because I was too fearful of hurting the shoulder again.Anyone not reading the full book will miss out on the why and will miss out that this is not a “cure”, and not a “quick fix” and takes time and effort. Many that didn’t read diligently will not realize there are arm exercises in addition to the hanging and there is lifelong “maintenance” involved to prevent a recurrence. Also there are three reasons why you would use these techniques, I think one is brittle bones syndrome, I can’t remember the other two, just read the book to find out.Note that the book doctor recommends 30 reps for the arm exercises, but when I added the weights I am only doing 5, 10, 15lbs and at low reps of 15 ,10, 8 respectively. Also my hanging exercises my feet never leave the floor, I am over 200 lbs so just doing most of my weight for the hanging is plenty. The only things not in the book that I used are the the finger wall crawls and arm pendulum swings that I needed the first 2 months to “unlock” or warmup the shoulder for the hanging exercises.This $10 book alone probably saved me $800 to $1000 on doctors visit and physical therapy and now I have complete understanding of how to prevent. And was able to do everything on my own schedule and on my own terms.

Very insightful, but
Very helpful information and I will likely be using it for the rest of my life. And will I don’t (totally) feel like my money was wasted, the book could easily have been half as much. And I do agree with the opinion that all of the information could be compressed into an article

It worked for me!
I sprained my right shoulder doing push-ups. The pain lasted for months. I tried everything. Bob and Brad, two physical therapists on the internet, recommended this book. I bought the Kindle version and started following the exercises outlined in the book right away. Within a few weeks, I regained use of my right shoulder and the pain was gone. At first, the exercises were uncomfortable, but got easier as time went on. Approximately a year later, I continue to hang from a pull-up bar on an almost daily basis.

Ce livre a changé ma vie, le docteur Kirch est sûrement le médecin orthopédiste le plus visionnaire et généreux de notre époque. MERCI BEAUCOUP

Interesting point of view and worth a try. Have bad shoulders so curious if it works. Sounds logica and well thought

I had a bad impingment in the dx shoulder that lasted years. This book put me back in the gym and possibly saved me from surgery.