Weight training

Now that my shoulder has improved and is only a little frozen, I find that weight training really makes it feel better! I get almost as much relief from doing light presses as I do from any other therapy.

The ART therapist told me to do light presses against the wall with a pillow between my palm and the wall. Just pressing my weight. My frozen arm is very weak, so this is actually worth something. However, I think it is even more effective to do a light forward press on the Total Gym. I set the angle very low and push forward with my hands on the stirrups. My whole shoulder feels better for hours afterwards.

I worked for almost an hour on the shoulder today, with my husband's help. Lots of trigger point massaging - especially to the serratus and latissimus dorsi. He did "spray and stretch" with ice to my shoulder area while I tried to raise my arm behind my back. I couldn't even take my hand back to my hip at all two months ago. Now I can get it halfway up the back without any pain. Still a ways to go, though. I still don't have 100% extension or external rotation most of the time. Every now and then, though, things click into place and I can do it.