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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.