Prevalence of Shoulder Pain Among Male Weight Lifters in Quetta City

Abstract

Shoulder pain is a common symptom that have a lot of causes during weight lifting. I conducted this study to find out the prevalence of shoulder pain and its cause among the Male weight lifters of Quetta city, Pakistan, as the shoulder is the most mobile joint in human body and weak in stability, almost all of the gym exercises need shoulder joint to move somehow, which make it susceptible and prone to injury due to high load poor mechanics, poor diet, genetics, poor lifting technique, warm up and warm down. These injuries than lead to various from of deformities and also affect performance if not diagnose and treated on time. Shoulder long lever (type-III) activities mostly front raise and lateral raise as well as compressive glen humeral joint forces causes most of injuries. The most common form of injuries that causes shoulder pain is rotator cuff muscle strain, sub acromial bursitis, SLAP tear, sprain and neurological involvement.