Has anyone had or is anyone having rotator cuff surgery?

How to check for rotator cuff injury? Please help.?

• Is there any exercise in which i could perform to tell me if I have a rotator cuff injury. I get pain if I do overhand activities. Is there some kind of exercise that will give me pain which is saying its the rotator cuff. I am only 15 and absolutely love volleyball. I am hoping to continue it past school. It is probaly the thing I wake up for. Seriously. My shoulders have always been dodgy. Think its double jointed if thats possible as i can like click it out the joint sorta. Its weird anyway i hurt it a couple months ago and let it heal for a few weeks and then came back. It was good for a few weeks then got reinjured. was off for only a week then. Since then my shoulder has been good but last 3 weeks i have been getting like an ache in my shoulder as i play. as the training progresses, the pain in my shoulder does as well. By the end of the training session its pretty sore. I had training thursday and my arm is still sore today (monday) altho i can put up with it. i am really hoping it isnt a tear cuz apparently i might have to get it operated on. I am only young and want to continue volleyball. If anyone has any experiences or advice that would be helpful. i dont really want to go to physio to be honest as I dont want to have to get advised to go to surgery and what not. Good feedback for best answer and will appreciate any help. Any help! thanks heaps

• Answer:

  Try to make a circle with your arm and if you can't get all the way around without a lot of pain or if you can't make it all the way around at all then you most likely have a rotator cuff injury