Home › Exercise library › Shoulder

Shoulder · Early recovery

Passive External Rotation with Cane

Passive External Rotation with Cane: start and finish positions
Start and finish positions. Photographs by BoneArc.

How to do it

Lie on your back with elbows bent at your sides, holding a cane with both hands. Use your unaffected arm to push the cane sideways, rotating the affected forearm outward, then return to the middle.

Body region
Shoulder
Position
Supine
Equipment
Cane
Recovery phase
Early recovery
Purpose
Range Of Motion

Used in home programs for

  • Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder)
  • Proximal Humerus Fracture (Non-Operative)
  • Proximal Humerus ORIF
  • Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement
  • Rotator Cuff Repair
  • Rotator Cuff Tear (Monitored — Non-Operative)
  • Shoulder Replacement

Put this in a program

Clinicians build a printed or phone-delivered home exercise program from 831 photographed exercises. No account to build or print.

Add Passive External Rotation with Cane to a program Open the builder

Related exercises

This page describes one exercise as it appears in the BoneArc library so a clinician can decide whether it belongs in a patient's program. It is not a prescription. Follow the plan your own clinician gave you.