Conditions / Swimmers

Physical therapy for swimmers

Your shoulder turns over thousands of times a week in the pool. When it starts to pinch on the catch or ache after practice, Christian finds the cause and builds the strength that keeps you in the water all season.

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Physical therapy for swimmers in Portland, Maine

Small problems, repeated on every lap

Swimming is easy on your joints and hard on your shoulders. A small gap in rotator cuff strength or shoulder blade control gets repeated thousands of times a week, so the pain often builds slowly, from a twinge early in the season to an ache you feel on every stroke by taper.

How Christian keeps you in the pool

Find the source of the pain. Christian tests your range of motion, rotator cuff strength, and how your shoulder blade and upper back move.

Calm the irritated tissue. Manual therapy and dry needling bring the pain down so you can focus on the strength work that fixes the problem.

Build strength on dry land. You get a dryland program that prepares your shoulders for high-yardage weeks.

At a glance

Swimmer’s shoulder

Neck and upper back pain

Low back pain from kicking

Dryland strength programs

$175

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