
Slumped over a keyboard all day? It’s not just your back that can feel the strain—your shoulders can also be affected. Adding shoulder stretches to your day, though, can really help.
Helen O’Leary, physiotherapist and clinical director at Complete Pilates, says that our musculoskeletal system starts to stiffen up a bit after the age of 30 and it “can be easy to lose a little bit of mobility in the shoulders, so gradually that you don’t notice it. Or, if you’ve ever had a shoulder injury you can often lose a bit of range and it can be quite subtle.