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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/knowledge-is-key-in-preventing-rotator-cuff-injuries/">Knowledge is key in preventing rotator cuff injuries</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 7, 2007 at 09:30 AM by Courtney Albon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Injury, however painful, can be an enlightening experience.&nbsp; Most people have no idea what the rotator cuff is, let alone it’s function or importance, until, like my dad, they notice a sharp pain when swinging a golf club or go to reach for an item at the top of the shelf and are surprised at their limited range of motion.&nbsp; The rotator cuff is made up of four muscles in the shoulder that work together to allow shoulder movement for activities such as throwing a baseball, swinging a tennis racket, scratching your back or any other activity that requires movement from the shoulder.&nbsp; The muscles responsible for rotating the shoulder outwards are the infraspinatus, teres minor and supraspinatus and the muscle that serves to rotate the shoulder inwards is called the subscapularis.&nbsp; Each of these four muscles assists the ligaments in…<a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/knowledge-is-key-in-preventing-rotator-cuff-injuries/">(<a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/knowledge-is-key-in-preventing-rotator-cuff-injuries/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/knowledge-is-key-in-preventing-rotator-cuff-injuries/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/knowledge-is-key-in-preventing-rotator-cuff-injuries/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/his-fitness/">his-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/injuries-rehab/">injuries-rehab</a>, <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/his-health/">his-health</a><br /><br /> </P>