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How to Avoid Rotator Cuff Injury

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

All About the Rotator Cuff

We all need to take a second to examine the most frequently injured area of the shoulders: the rotator cuff. The muscles that make up the rotator cuff are small and can be strained easily.

The four small muscles that make up the rotator cuff:

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  1. infraspinatus
  2. supraspinatus
  3. teres minor
  4. subscapularis

Each of these smaller muscles can easily be strained, pulled, or even sometimes overtrained. So important are each of the muscles of the rotator cuff, that once one muscle is damaged the whole cuff is thrown into disarray, often requiring rehab.

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