anterior shoulder instability

Hi there,

After seeing many physio's I came to the conclusion that it was important that I saw a dance physio who knew how to deal with acute dance related injuries. To keep it short, I hurt my shoulder 18 months ago whilst dancing, to was swung back and then someone banged into me. Since then I have been going to see a physio and have just recently starting to see a dance physio with the realisation that it was better to see someone who understood the nature of dance injuries than just someone who knew shoulders.

After many tests and a few too many diagnoses, my current physio believes that I have anterior shoulder instability and I'd be keen to see what your views are in the cause of this type of instability and if having slightly laxed ligaments can contribute to this. I think that she is onto something as no one has been as specific as she has been with what is going on with my shoulder.

The next question is how to I get better. I'm currently doing work where I am trying to strengthen all ranges. My weakest range is 180 down to 90.

Last question is, can instability cause irritation of the biceps tendon and if so, how do you stop it before it becomes chronic inflammation? My biceps t is the first place which gets inflammed and that causes me the most pain when everything is upset.

Help much appreciated.

hi friend
as you are a dancer and a woman,the flexibility of your joints will be generally a bit more.the injury, supperadded to it resulted in anterior shoulder instability.
i suggest you to concentrate on strengthening of rotator cuff muscles,which are the core muscles of shoulder.try in the neutral position and gradually progress in the plane of the scapula.please try this under supervision
the reply to your query whether instability has any effect over biceps tendon-yes it has an effect.when instability or pain is there the concavity compresion action of rotator cuff is lost resulting in excessive humeral head translation.the humerus is pulled mostly anterrosuperiarly by the over activity of superficial muscles,which again worsens the scenario and putt stress on long head of biceps tendon which asssists in humeral head depression