AspenRehab: Shoulder, Elbow, & Wrist Pain

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2020

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additional stress on your body, which could result in pain in crucial joints like your shoulders, elbows and yes, even your wrists. But even aside from that, there are a lot of potential issues that your body can face as a result of sedentary behavior in the workplace or at home— including shoulder, elbow, and wrist pain. Shoulder, elbow, and wrist injuries are especially common as a result of injury and overuse. While it is sometimes possible to take action to prevent an injury from developing, it is especially important to be able to recognize when

It’s time to say goodbye to shoulder, elbow, and wrist pain once and for all. Identifying the cause of your pain and taking steps to combat ill habits that may be contributing to your discomfort can have a significant impact on your quality of life. Wave goodbye to pain in your hands, shoulders, elbows and wrists with targeted techniques from your experienced physical therapists.

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What is Causing the Pain? Think about the tasks that make up the majority of your day-to-day life. It

is often said that life in the 21st century is way easier on the body than lifeduring any other time in human history —

“...it is especially important to be able to recognize when an injury develops...”

an injury develops and to understand ways that you can combat that injury

by identifying what may have caused the pain to develop in the first place. Common issues that can lead to shoulder, elbow, and wrist pain include: • Issues with poor posture • Carpal tunnel syndrome, which can develop from overuse of the wrist and regular, repetitive motions, such as typing • Heavy lifting • Athletic injuries • Muscle sprain • Muscle strain • Dislocation or hyperextension of the joints

and it’s true that there is a fair amount of evidence to support this idea. Rather than spending all of your days working in a factory or on a farm, the vast majority of Americans work indoors, often at a computer for a predetermined number of hours week after week. But this new lifestyle isn’t exactly harmless for the body, either. There are plenty of ways in which the common tasks of 21st-century life put the body under a great deal of stress. Sedentary lifestyles frequently contribute toweight gain, which increases your risk for a long list of obesity-related diseases. This puts

Care enough to share how physical therapy helped you? If you know someone suffering wi th aches and pains give the gift of health. Refer them to Aspen Rehab today. Pass along this newsletter or have them call us directly for a Free Consultation. Send them our way, and we’ll reward you with a FREE BIOFREEZE product.

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