Impingement / impingement syndrome, has further names like, e.g.:
• Shoulder- arm syndrome
• Shoulder narrowness syndrome
• Supraspinatus syndrome
• subacromial narrowness syndrome
• Rotator cuff narrowness- syndrome.

Impingement, or impingement syndrome describes narrowness in the acromium caused by heavy muscular disbalance, with which bony parts rub against each other, pinching soft parts like tendons and bursa sacs up to inflammation and destruction.

Impingement / impingement syndrome does not come out of the blue, it does not appear all of a sudden due to overstraining or an accident, like many people. It is a continuous disbalance of the individual shoulder muscles, which keeps on increasing. The worst thing about it was, that this so-called  MUSCULAR DYSFUNCTION could not be treated effectively until the SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR was developed.

Impingement/ impingement syndrome is an illness that initiates inexorably over years or decades. The first WARNING SIGNALS sometimes show up in young years in the form of short yet intensive stabbing pains in the shoulder on moving in a certain way, which one then avoids as much as possible, to make life easier. Unfortunately, most sufferers are not aware that these pains are of great importance to us, a warning, or should even be an alarm. Instead, one ignores these symptoms until, after years, it can no longer be borne. And yet there is a possibility to help the shoulder in a simple way.Used in the “early stages”, the “SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR” (the shoulder horn) can avoid almost all illnesses of the shoulder, even be preventative like a vaccination.

The fact that the symptoms of impingement/impingement syndrome often emerge after overstraining, e.g. in sports, after housework, due to work etc. out of the blue and often at night, mostly with intense pain (NIGHT PAINS) does not mean that one has suddenly caused an impingement. It was simply like the well-known saying of putting the tin lid on it. The impingement was already there ant it was simply “woken up”.

Impingement / impingement syndrome is the “mother” of many shoulder illnesses, like e.g. bursitis, the infraspinatus- syndrome; it is the cause of tendonitis and damage to the supraspinatus- tendon and the biceps tendon. This are both partial ruptures (tears in the supraspinatus tendon or biceps tendon) and total ruptures (complete tearing of the supraspinatus tendon or r biceps tendon), which occur due to the rubbing of the tendon between bone and acromium.

To understand this, you have to know that the gap between the mobile bones of an intact shoulder, thus between the ball (humerus) and the bony part of the acromium should be about 7mm in size. The bursa sac, which lies between these bones has the job of absorbing shock due to over-straining throughout the day, e.g. during overhead movements at work, at home, during sports. A constant gap of about 7mm is a requirement.

But this does not work and the gap becomes constantly smaller.

 

We could describe “phase 1” of impingement as when it has become tight in the joint and the bursa sac is no longer able to always compensate this. It becomes infalemmd more and more often especially after additional straining. The pain-free periods become noticeably shorter. Pains appear 1-2 times a week, especially at night (NIGHT PAINS) and in the first half of the day (WHY?). The pains radiate to the upper arm in a pulling and dull way, sometimes even down to the hands. If the SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR is used in this early stage of illness, the chances of long-lasting freedom of pain are more than 90%. The use of medicine, if at all, would only be necessary for a few days, as the use of the shoulder active bar makes just enough room in the shoulder very fast, so that the pain barrier is fallen short of. The bar must be continually used even after freedom of pain, in order to keep this condition.

We could describe “phase 2” as when the bursa sac is about to say goodbye and is almost constantly inflamed. The bursa sac offers almost no protection and is the supraspinatus tendon is almost constantly rubbed between bones. There can also be partial ruptures. One has shoulder pains almost daily, mainly in the (WHY?). Pain gets even worse at night, when one supposedly wants to “settle down”. The chances of improvement through the SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR are still about 80%!

Our “FIRST AID TIPS” often help inflamed shoulders, as well. “

We could describe “phase 3 of impingement as having almost constant pain and thus bursac sacs and tendons are chronically inflamed. There might also be a rupture (tear-off) of the supraspinatus tendon. Assuming there is still a certain basic mobility available that allows for exercising with the SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR to a smaller extent, there is a big chance that improvement cane be achieved, one of over 60%.

The SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR is the only known device that can be used in all phases of impingement / impingement syndrome by the sufferers themselves without help from others. The SHOULDER ACTIVE BAR is ARM HOLDER and therapy aid at the same time. Even if there is a greater limitation of mobility, therapy can be started with the choice of the suitable device

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