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The physical therapist--Larry again--is pleased with how I'm doing. I have very good range of motion in my shoulder: I think he lifted it to 180°, maybe even slightly past, in a relatively easy motion, rather than the slow one Apu used Saturday.
I now have three new exercises, all to be done with a piece of elastic hooked behind a closed door (or similar, I suppose): pulling back, a la the rowing thing at the gym; pulling forward, "as if you were trying to punch somebody," and pulling sideways (inward). The last is the one that most directly uses the rotator cuff. I'm to do these once or twice a day, doing each until I'm worn out from it. Larry said that he was handing me the red elastic, which isn't as easy as the yellow (I infer the colors are correlated to thickness or other variables affecting material strength), because I'm strong.
It sounds as though he has two (or more) approaches, and I got the one labeled "athlete"--for example, he's pleased that I kept using the shoulder some, and have all that motion, rather than "frozen shoulder" from disuse due to pain; I also got the reminder that "no pain, no gain" does not apply here, and that while I can do lat pulldowns, I should stop or adjust them if it hurts. Adjust would mean not letting the weight go all the way back up.
I now have three new exercises, all to be done with a piece of elastic hooked behind a closed door (or similar, I suppose): pulling back, a la the rowing thing at the gym; pulling forward, "as if you were trying to punch somebody," and pulling sideways (inward). The last is the one that most directly uses the rotator cuff. I'm to do these once or twice a day, doing each until I'm worn out from it. Larry said that he was handing me the red elastic, which isn't as easy as the yellow (I infer the colors are correlated to thickness or other variables affecting material strength), because I'm strong.
It sounds as though he has two (or more) approaches, and I got the one labeled "athlete"--for example, he's pleased that I kept using the shoulder some, and have all that motion, rather than "frozen shoulder" from disuse due to pain; I also got the reminder that "no pain, no gain" does not apply here, and that while I can do lat pulldowns, I should stop or adjust them if it hurts. Adjust would mean not letting the weight go all the way back up.
The physical therapist--Larry again--is pleased with how I'm doing. I have very good range of motion in my shoulder: I think he lifted it to 180°, maybe even slightly past, in a relatively easy motion, rather than the slow one Apu used Saturday.
I now have three new exercises, all to be done with a piece of elastic hooked behind a closed door (or similar, I suppose): pulling back, a la the rowing thing at the gym; pulling forward, "as if you were trying to punch somebody," and pulling sideways (inward). The last is the one that most directly uses the rotator cuff. I'm to do these once or twice a day, doing each until I'm worn out from it. Larry said that he was handing me the red elastic, which isn't as easy as the yellow (I infer the colors are correlated to thickness or other variables affecting material strength), because I'm strong.
It sounds as though he has two (or more) approaches, and I got the one labeled "athlete"--for example, he's pleased that I kept using the shoulder some, and have all that motion, rather than "frozen shoulder" from disuse due to pain; I also got the reminder that "no pain, no gain" does not apply here, and that while I can do lat pulldowns, I should stop or adjust them if it hurts. Adjust would mean not letting the weight go all the way back up.
I now have three new exercises, all to be done with a piece of elastic hooked behind a closed door (or similar, I suppose): pulling back, a la the rowing thing at the gym; pulling forward, "as if you were trying to punch somebody," and pulling sideways (inward). The last is the one that most directly uses the rotator cuff. I'm to do these once or twice a day, doing each until I'm worn out from it. Larry said that he was handing me the red elastic, which isn't as easy as the yellow (I infer the colors are correlated to thickness or other variables affecting material strength), because I'm strong.
It sounds as though he has two (or more) approaches, and I got the one labeled "athlete"--for example, he's pleased that I kept using the shoulder some, and have all that motion, rather than "frozen shoulder" from disuse due to pain; I also got the reminder that "no pain, no gain" does not apply here, and that while I can do lat pulldowns, I should stop or adjust them if it hurts. Adjust would mean not letting the weight go all the way back up.
It was very odd, reading a Newsday article on the Patriot Act, to find myself wondering on whether said Act had restrictions on speculating in print/online about a person's identity, when that identity is being concealed from his lawyer by the government.
It was very odd, reading a Newsday article on the Patriot Act, to find myself wondering on whether said Act had restrictions on speculating in print/online about a person's identity, when that identity is being concealed from his lawyer by the government.
I've just done a round of the exercises with the new piece of elastic. The first step was for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude to remove julian_tiger from the bedroom, because Julian seemed to think the elastic hooked behind the door, and moving, was a marvelous toy.
In theory, I'm supposed to do enough of each to tire myself out. I think I stopped somewhere above 50 on the one that feels like the adjustable row machine; I could probably have done another 100, and may ask for the next level of elastic for that one. I took the one where the fist gets pushed forward into the mid-30s, where I started feeling tired, and did 30 of the sideways ones.
cattitude to remove julian_tiger from the bedroom, because Julian seemed to think the elastic hooked behind the door, and moving, was a marvelous toy.In theory, I'm supposed to do enough of each to tire myself out. I think I stopped somewhere above 50 on the one that feels like the adjustable row machine; I could probably have done another 100, and may ask for the next level of elastic for that one. I took the one where the fist gets pushed forward into the mid-30s, where I started feeling tired, and did 30 of the sideways ones.
I've just done a round of the exercises with the new piece of elastic. The first step was for cattitude to remove julian_tiger from the bedroom, because Julian seemed to think the elastic hooked behind the door, and moving, was a marvelous toy.
In theory, I'm supposed to do enough of each to tire myself out. I think I stopped somewhere above 50 on the one that feels like the adjustable row machine; I could probably have done another 100, and may ask for the next level of elastic for that one. I took the one where the fist gets pushed forward into the mid-30s, where I started feeling tired, and did 30 of the sideways ones.
cattitude to remove julian_tiger from the bedroom, because Julian seemed to think the elastic hooked behind the door, and moving, was a marvelous toy.In theory, I'm supposed to do enough of each to tire myself out. I think I stopped somewhere above 50 on the one that feels like the adjustable row machine; I could probably have done another 100, and may ask for the next level of elastic for that one. I took the one where the fist gets pushed forward into the mid-30s, where I started feeling tired, and did 30 of the sideways ones.
I carry a backpack. It's easier on my shoulder than a shoulder bag large enough to carry what I consider the basics for a day out and about--book or other reading material, notebook, a few pens, sunglasses, water bottle [1], that sort of thing. It's also light purple and well supplied with pockets.
On my way from work to the drugstore today, I went through Penn Station. As I entered, a police officer asked me to "step over there" for a bag search. I did. They were polite and efficient, and I'll file this under "if they're going to do this pointless thing, at least they're not doing it in a stupid way": I'd be very surprised if, in the current political and psychological climate, the "profile" of a possible terrorist looks like me.
Nonetheless, it is a useless intrusion, and I want them to stop.
[1] Not always necessary, but in weather like this it's prudent.
On my way from work to the drugstore today, I went through Penn Station. As I entered, a police officer asked me to "step over there" for a bag search. I did. They were polite and efficient, and I'll file this under "if they're going to do this pointless thing, at least they're not doing it in a stupid way": I'd be very surprised if, in the current political and psychological climate, the "profile" of a possible terrorist looks like me.
Nonetheless, it is a useless intrusion, and I want them to stop.
[1] Not always necessary, but in weather like this it's prudent.
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I carry a backpack. It's easier on my shoulder than a shoulder bag large enough to carry what I consider the basics for a day out and about--book or other reading material, notebook, a few pens, sunglasses, water bottle [1], that sort of thing. It's also light purple and well supplied with pockets.
On my way from work to the drugstore today, I went through Penn Station. As I entered, a police officer asked me to "step over there" for a bag search. I did. They were polite and efficient, and I'll file this under "if they're going to do this pointless thing, at least they're not doing it in a stupid way": I'd be very surprised if, in the current political and psychological climate, the "profile" of a possible terrorist looks like me.
Nonetheless, it is a useless intrusion, and I want them to stop.
[1] Not always necessary, but in weather like this it's prudent.
On my way from work to the drugstore today, I went through Penn Station. As I entered, a police officer asked me to "step over there" for a bag search. I did. They were polite and efficient, and I'll file this under "if they're going to do this pointless thing, at least they're not doing it in a stupid way": I'd be very surprised if, in the current political and psychological climate, the "profile" of a possible terrorist looks like me.
Nonetheless, it is a useless intrusion, and I want them to stop.
[1] Not always necessary, but in weather like this it's prudent.
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