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Fun fact: the shoulder is the most mobile joint in the body, which is ironic because it doesn’t feel like that for many of us. There can, of course, be many reasons for shoulder stiffness and immobility, but I was surprised to find what’s at the root of the many cases seen by Dr Dan Ginader, a qualified physical therapist for the Mims Method in Manhattan.

“The first thing I will look at is the strength of the rotator cuff ,” Ginader tells Fit&Well . “When most people feel like they don’t have shoulder mobility, the thing they are usually missing is rotator cuff stability.”

“The rotator cu

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