A rotator cuff muscle injury usually involves an injury to one of the four shoulder muscles. It can be acute (meaning someone falls) or chronic (where the injury progresses over time, as the person repeats overhead movements) or tendinitis (where the muscle simply wears away with age). Acute tears are common in weightlifters and those who fall and try to break their fall. Chronic tears, on the other hand, happen to people who are involved in occupations where they do a lot of overhead activities (ie, painters or baseball players). Some sports have additional risk, ie golf rotator cuff injury is quite common as it is a sport where one takes a lot of swings.
The injury usually occurs in the dominant arm of men over the age of 40. The pain usually prevents the person from sleeping, and the pain gradually gets worse. Most people will not be able to return to the same activities that injured them. Tendonitis is most common in women between the ages of 35 and 50, again the pain comes on gradually and gets worse every day.
The reason why this injury can lead to suicide is because many people who suffer from the injury experience that the pain gets worse every day. They can’t think clearly because they can’t sleep well at night. And they feel hopeless because they can no longer do many of the activities they used to enjoy. There is also the side effect that there is no permanent treatment, you can’t just do a few stretches on your rotator cuff injury and make it go away. There is no exercise for rotator cuff injury, the pain is permanent. And many of the medications used to treat rotator cuff injury have suicidal thoughts as a side effect.
If you think suicide is not a cause for concern, you should know that more than 1.1 million people attempt suicide each year in the United States alone. 1 in 14 Americans will even know someone who has committed suicide alone in the last year. Worldwide it’s even worse, there are over 20 million suicide attempts each year worldwide… that’s more or less the entire population of Australia attempting suicide each year.
So, as you can see, suicide is a real threat, so if you know someone who has had a rotator cuff muscle injury, make sure you learn all the warning signs of suicide so you know if the person is at risk of trying. commit suicide. If you’ve had a rotator cuff injury yourself, be sure to provide a suicide warning sign guide to someone you see daily, so they can help save your life at a later date. Remember, you may not feel suicidal now, but rotator cuff injury is a progressive problem, your condition will get worse and worse, until you reach a point where you will consider suicide. Better safe than sorry.
