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The Surprising Link Between Poor Posture and Rotator Cuff Problems

Updated: Jan 12

The Surprising Link Between Poor Posture and Rotator Cuff Problems


Do you have poor Posture? You are 2000% more likely to have a Rotator Cuff Problem


Sore Shoulder? Could the shape of your spine affect this?


There are 3 curves in our spine, a cervical and lumbar lordosis and a thoracic kyphosis


Do you have poor Posture? You are 2000% more likely to have a Rotator Cuff Problem
Do you have poor Posture? You are 2000% more likely to have a Rotator Cuff Problem

Rotator cuff tears /tendonitis affect the following 4 muscles

  • subscapularis

  • Infraspinatus

  • Teres minor

  • Supraspinatus


Symptoms you may have with a rotator cuff problem are

  • swelling in shoulder

  • Pain in shoulder

  • Limited motion

  • Weakness in arm


It affects those who have repeated stressors/movement in the shoulder


New research shows that patients with a hyperkyphotic thoracic spine maybe 2000% MORE likely to develop a rotator cuff tear than those with an ideal posture


How did the research get here?


They examined nearly 400 people with tears and found the following

  • 2.9% of people with tears had ideal alignment

  • 65.8% of tears were those with kyphotic-lordotic posture

  • 54.3% had a flat back posture

  • 49.9% had sway sway-back posture



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. 2015 Mar;24(3):446-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2014.07.012. Epub 2014 Oct 16.

The impact of faulty posture on rotator cuff tears with and without symptoms

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