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On Jun 9, 1:41 pm, "Christina Websell"
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On May 28, 3:26 pm, "Joy" wrote:
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At the supermarkets where I shop, the price of each item is visible
as
it is
rung up.

Joy

I have said nothing about your PT but hope you tough it through. NO
ONE knows how
much use you will regain of left arm. I know it "burns" and hurts but
you beat death and
I know you can beat this for your untimate goal.
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I do all these exercises faithfully but there are so many to do, so often
it
pretty well takes over my life.
I get up in the morning with not much pain, but once I start to do them,
it
hurts like crazy. I have so many exercises to do now.
I have to pick a big stick up and hold it up with both hands.
It's agonising but I think it's doing good. I can raise my arm
now level with my waist. I cannot move it across to be able to put my car
into third gear, so I am still stuck in the house.
Hydrotherapy was fabulous. I wanted to go again next day!

Tweed

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Tweed, Do you have a swimming pool nearby? And would you have any way to
get to it (perhaps June could help)? I'm asking because I had incredible
shoulder pain some years ago. The doctor did not fully diagnose it for me
because it was in an unusual place at the front of the shoulder (*not* a
rotator cuff injury). I went for physical therapy and heat treatments,
but they did not help much even after several months. The pain was so
severe that I had to use both hands just to turn a key, and I would fasten
my bra in front and then turn it around to the back because I could not
possibly reach backwards. Then, one day, my doctor asked me if I knew how
to swim. Well, yes, in fact I was on swim teams and was a waterfront
director in my younger days. He suggested that I try swimming. I did,
and the pain was excruciating the first few days. I swam laps, first 2
laps with each stroke and gradually increasing. The pain gradually
diminished. At the end, I was swimming 70 laps a day (Olympic-size pool),
and the pain was completely gone--and it has never recurred!

You would need to check with your physical therapist, of course, before
trying this; and I do realize that your injury is entirely different than
mine. But it was amazing to see that type of "water therapy" (just
swimming laps) work far better than real physical therapy. I did have an
advantage because I was previously an expert swimmer, so I could swim very
easily without any struggle in the water.

I can't swim very well, only doggy paddle and it would be impossible to do
it right now.
It's still difficult to get my arm up to mouth to feed myself.
Tweed

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I understand. That turned out to be the perfect therapy for my, but I had
the advantage of being able to swim smoothly. The first few times
(especially the crawl) were excruciating, but it got better and better. I
could see a difference with each day of swimming until I suddenly realized
that there was no pain at all. Still, my shoulder problem was different
than yours, so it's possible that the same "therapy" would not even have
worked for both of us.

MaryL