The pendulum exercise is one of the best moves to relieve shoulder pain—especially for frozen shoulder. It works by gently mobilizing the joint, improving circulation, and reducing stiffness without putting stress on the shoulder. Easy, effective, and perfect for home relief! | Physical Therapy Session

The PENDULUM exercise for the shoulder is a great exercise to help increase mobility of the shoulder while, concurrently, helping stretch and release the tight tissues such as the tendons, ligaments, muscle fibers and the joint capsule. It’s a PASSIVE exercise where you let the body movements create a passive PENDULAR motion in the glenohumeral joint or the shoulder joint. Holding on to a light weight also allows gravity and the weight to pull and stretch the tissue further. This exercise is gre