Shoulders are getting tighter. With the move away from a rural-agrarian culture toward ever greater technical sophistication, our arms spend more time at our sides, which isn’t good. Arms, after all, are made to move, not sit idle by our sides. When they do that, they tend to become stiff, and pathological processes can sometimes set in. It doesn’t get better with age.
There are many different approaches to exercising your shoulders and maintaining an effective range of motion. Scrubbing or wiping motions are excellent therapeutic tools and one way to provide safe, honest work for the shoulders. They work the shoulders in gravity-reduced or eliminated positions to go easy on painful muscles, or directly against gravity to strengthen and improve range of motion.
