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Assisted shoulder flexion
- Clasp your hands in front of your body.
- Raise them over your head by letting your stronger side guide and assist your weaker side.
Assisted shoulder flexion
- Stand in front of a wall and place the hand of the affected arm on the wall in front of you.
- With your fingers, climb up the wall as high as you can and come back to the starting position.
- Repeat.
AAROM external rotation
- Stand up against a wall.
- Position your affected arm on the wall close to your body, elbow bent 90 degrees, palm up.
- Push the affected arm out to the side toward the wall as far as possible by pushing on the stick with the good hand.
- Maintain the position and slowly return to the middle.
- Repeat.
Scaption strengthening, weight
- Stand with weights in your hands, arms straight at your sides, thumbs up and your shoulders down and back.
- Raise your arms in a 45 degree angle up to parallel.
- Return to the starting position and repeat.
Side lying external rotation
- Lie on your side with a weight in your top hand, elbow bent to 90 degrees.
- Place a rolled towel between your arm and your side.
- Rest your head on your free arm.
- Externally rotate the arm to lift the weight up.
- Keep your body still; do not turn the trunk to assist the movement.
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