Your Shoulder Pain Isn't Coming From Your Shoulder — Here's Where It Actually Starts

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Feb 11, 2026 · 39m

You have stretched it. Rested it. Modified your training around it. And it keeps coming back every time you push past a certain point. Shoulder pain that returns despite doing everything right is almost never just a shoulder problem. It is a kinetic chain problem — a breakdown in how force moves through your body that shows up in your shoulder because that is where the system is weakest, not where the dysfunction began. Tonya Juge is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who works specifically with athletes and active people who want to keep playing without managing pain forever. What she shares about…