PROM Exercises Rotator Cuff

A great exercise for your rotator cuff is PROM Exercises Rotator Cuff. PROM stands for Passive Range Of Motion.
Passive Range of Motion (PROM) exercise for your rotator cuff helps you keep your joints healthy. Especially after surgery or injury, using PROM exercises for your rotator cuff is essential to keep flexibility and allow blood flow in order to avoid stiffening of the joints.

Passive range of motion exercises for the rotator cuff is easy to do, but there is usually the help of a physical therapist. PROM exercises are moving all your joints or the effected joint along its natural motion of range. If you feel any discomfort you should immediately stop.

Breathe calmly and only do about 5-10 of the PROM exercises. You should never force yourself, do only as much as you can and as far as your muscles permit.

To Start PROM exercise for the rotator cuff the physical therapist can place one hand under the person’s elbow while holding the wrist with the other hand, making sure the elbow is straight and bending it slightly if needed

- Turn the palm towards the patient’s body, bring the arm you are holding slowly over the patient’s head and then slowly back to the starting position.

- Bring the patient’s arm out to the side and bend the elbow so the all the fingers are pointing towards the ceiling. Slowly rotate the arm to all the finger point towards the floor, then slowly return to the starting position.
Repeat these with the other arm.

These are a couple of PROM rotator cuff exercises you can use to bring blood flow and continues range of motion to your shoulders, allowing a speedy recovery.