About six months ago, in a combination of extensive digging in the garden (replanting irises and peonies) and a step up in weights on a couple of exercises in the gym, I "twanged" something in the front of my right shoulder. And it didn't get better. As these things sometimes do, it got worse. It got so bad that I couldn't get anything off a high shelf without lots of pain (at the 'stop and breathe' level).
Whatever I twanged affected the stability of my shoulder, and so the other muscles started tensing up to keep it from hurting, and it just escalated.
The first five or so weeks of PT were just getting all those muscles to loosen up so they could determine where the original damage occurred, and then they can work on that. There's been a lot of general shoulder work, but now they're targeting the muscles at the very back of the shoulder blade, and the ones under the arm which need to be balanced for the shoulder to work properly. (The triceps thing was a red herring, as it turns out.)
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Date: 2020-04-15 12:38 pm (UTC)About six months ago, in a combination of extensive digging in the garden (replanting irises and peonies) and a step up in weights on a couple of exercises in the gym, I "twanged" something in the front of my right shoulder. And it didn't get better. As these things sometimes do, it got worse. It got so bad that I couldn't get anything off a high shelf without lots of pain (at the 'stop and breathe' level).
Whatever I twanged affected the stability of my shoulder, and so the other muscles started tensing up to keep it from hurting, and it just escalated.
The first five or so weeks of PT were just getting all those muscles to loosen up so they could determine where the original damage occurred, and then they can work on that. There's been a lot of general shoulder work, but now they're targeting the muscles at the very back of the shoulder blade, and the ones under the arm which need to be balanced for the shoulder to work properly. (The triceps thing was a red herring, as it turns out.)