Wheelchair Modified Prone Shoulder Program

This rotator cuff / scapular stabilizer focused program is alternated daily with exercises for the larger muscle groups: pecs (clavicular portion focus), biceps, triceps and latissimus. Activation of the latissimus also helps to hold the head of the humerus from migrating superiorly into a high impingement risk position.

Large Muscle Group

1/ UBE Warmup (with shoulder flexion and abduction below 90)

2/ Self Stretch

3/ Rickshaw

4/ Butterflies (Focus on clavicular pecs)

5/ Lat Rowing or Lat Pulldown Flexion/Abduction (Pulldown only if no Shoulder pain present)

6/ Bench Press (if able)

7/ Super Dips/Push-up blocks

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Small Muscle Group

8/ UBE Warm-up (with shoulder flexion and abduction below 90)

9/ Prone Push Ups

10/ Horizontal Abd (90)

11/ Horizontal Abd (100)

12/ Prone Shoulder ER Or seated at 30/30 shoulder abd / flex

13/ Shoulder Scaption/ Lat Pulldown Flexion/Abduction (Pulldown only if no Shoulder pain present)

14/ Bicep / Tricep

15/ Self Stretching

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