Shoulder Impingment Test / Hawkins/ Neer/Empty Can Test ( Part 1)

The “empty can” is performed with the thumbs pointed towards the ground (as if pouring liquid out from a can). The “full can” is performed in the opposite manner with the thumbs pointed towards the sky. . While the “empty can” is often used as a clinically as a test by medical professionals to rule in or out a shoulder impingement injury, suggestions to use the “empty can” as an exercise can be traced back as far as the early 1980’s. While this exercise may activate the supraspinatus just as muc