I encourage you to go getting 100% of the mobility back at our age critical. You might feel good but if you leave it you’ll probably only get 85 or 90% mobility back and somewhere down the road you’ll pay for that.
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The message therapist, who is trained in numerous other modalities worked on my shoulder.
Not sure why she didn’t work on it and give me exercises before, but she thought if I was doing physio, leave it at that.
She gave me some exercises and told me what to do to get full range back.
I have not had full range in a decade I bet.
You have been around a long time, tried everything and as weird as this is may sound I will state it anyway. For whatever reason, holding only a bar and using your BW to hang down and hold for extended periods has a way of healing shoulders. You have to have strong hands if you don't use straps, which I refuse to, and now I use the belt to put a few plates around my stomach (hanging down and use this as part of warm-up and shoulder injury prevention). I had two sore shoulders for months (years ago), physiotherapist was quick to diagnose it - I was sort of hunching over in my work chair and my chest muscles were getting stronger than the muscles that should naturally pull your shoulders back into a neutral position were not getting worked enough. No hangs though. I added those in everyday starting with 10 seconds and at the end I would just stop holding after 4-5 minutes. All the stability muscles around the spine, between my shoulder blades were not getting enough work so I had to do 4 'mobility/strengthening' exercises before every workout. I was better in a month. This is not your situation, but hanging by your BW has a way of somehow helping your shoulders healing and stretching everything out.
If you have a muscle tear or tendon/ligament tear this would be a big no, but for many joint issues/minor muscle imbalances this has a way of helping.
You no doubt know all this, but the other benefit is larger/stronger forearms/hands as given a month your grip will get stronger.
I tried hangs at first and it aggravated my shoulder, but I agree they are good.
I am likely at the point where things are healed enough that I can start them again.
I damaged the shoulder way worse than what I pretended I did. After 4 months it is now at the point where someone would feel like with a normal decent shoulder injury with impingment. Up until the last 3 weeks recovery was super slow. I can feel progress almost daily now.
This will be a 6 month to a year process. And that was with gh and peptides. Well throwing the whole book at it. Yeah it was fucked bad.
I believe hangs help a lot because it stretches your lats, scapula and thoracic.
You know I think I will start to incorporate them today, but not full body weight and only 15 second reps of 3. Start slow and go from there.
Thx
Just saw this Sorbs. Any update? Hopefully you are progressing even if it’s little by little. This getting old thing and everything taking longer to heal really is a bitch.
Hurt my left shoulder at work 4 days ago. Incredible pain on day one. Still can’t lift my hand above head level. But it improves a little each day so just riding it out. Just when I’m starting to ramp up for summer. Grrrrrrrrrrr
Hurt my left shoulder at work 4 days ago. Incredible pain on day one. Still can’t lift my hand above head level. But it improves a little each day so just riding it out. Just when I’m starting to ramp up for summer. Grrrrrrrrrrr
Still catches when I lift it, but much better. It is stronger.
I’m in St. Lucia right now, so nit stressing it or doing rehab or anything, just letting it do its thing for 10 days. I’ll get back on rehab when I get back. I should be resuming lifting in some capacity in another month.
St. Lucia sooo nice. Enjoy brother.
Weather has been pretty shit so far, raining every day. A couple days so far it rained for a bit then got nice, a couple days just wind and clouds.
I don’t know if its just me, but I beleive the all inclusive resorts have become a fair bit slower since covid, or maybe its just the fancy ones I go to?
Which resort (if you don’t mind saying)?
Coconut Bay