Another health update...I've started physical therapy
So, my surgeon finally gave me the okay to begin physical therapy and while it seems like we're doing very little, once it's done the after-effects hurt like hell. I see the therapists twice a week so they can do range of motion stretching upward and outward with my arm in slow degrees. In addition to that, I have two sets of exercises that I do twice a day, twenty reps each where I bend at the waist and with my arm hanging down do a sort of rotation stretching with it. The way my therapist explains it, it's a gentler way to work the arm's rotation without having to work over my head as most of the work is done with leg and hip movements and the arm then is propelled by that action.
On the down-side, my surgeon also decided that I was doing too much on my own with my arm and told me to ease up, tighten my sling and limit activity to just what was done through physical therapy. Of course, this also comes at the same time that my in-home assistance is cut off so, I have no one to help with any house cleaning, or anything else that I'm unable to do myself. To add to that, they also refused to allow PT to be done in home, meaning I have to drive myself to my appointments without having use of my right arm or being able to wear a seat-belt. I love the logic of the system sometimes.
Anyway, other then that, my surgeon says the arm is healing wonderfully and I can't ask for more then that, so, I'm just going to follow his orders and hope that I come out of all this without any loss of range of motion or strength.
On the down-side, my surgeon also decided that I was doing too much on my own with my arm and told me to ease up, tighten my sling and limit activity to just what was done through physical therapy. Of course, this also comes at the same time that my in-home assistance is cut off so, I have no one to help with any house cleaning, or anything else that I'm unable to do myself. To add to that, they also refused to allow PT to be done in home, meaning I have to drive myself to my appointments without having use of my right arm or being able to wear a seat-belt. I love the logic of the system sometimes.
Anyway, other then that, my surgeon says the arm is healing wonderfully and I can't ask for more then that, so, I'm just going to follow his orders and hope that I come out of all this without any loss of range of motion or strength.