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[Akasa]

As you may remember I broke my arm and needed surgery to reattach my radial head. I have started physical therapy. It basically consists of "Do x till it hurts, then do it 10 more times" or "Do Y till it hurts, then hold it for 30 seconds, then do it again."

I'm supposed to do my exercises every hour. That means just as soon as I stop hurting I do it all over again.

[Sparky]

As you may remember I broke my arm and needed surgery to reattach my radial head. I have started physical therapy. It basically consists of "Do x till it hurts, then do it 10 more times" or "Do Y till it hurts, then hold it for 30 seconds, then do it again."

I'm supposed to do my exercises every hour. That means just as soon as I stop hurting I do it all over again.

Ow!

You have all my sympathy. The last time I had PT (following compression fracture of head of humerous) I named my therapist Dr. Evil.

On second thought, I lied. Dr. Evil was not the therapist for post-break PT, he was the therapist post-bonespur surgery PT. It seemed far, far worse than the PT I had the first two times (broken shoulder, frozen shoulder). This may have been because the therapist was going faster than the one I had the other two times, or maybe just because I had forgotten blocked out how much fun PT is. It dragged on for months because I wasn't doing what I was told, because I was just plain tired of hurting myself. Finally I got fed up and told myself to shape up and do the damn exercises. And I still could not do what Dr. Evil -- who was actually a very kind man -- told me to do, so I kind of invented my own, doing what I felt I could do. At this point I began making rapid progress. (I did show Dr. Evil and the surgeon what I was doing and they approved.)

You get out of PT what you put into it. But it still sucks. A lot.

[bbbr]

Ah the joys of "personal torture "... I'm in the middle of rehabbing 2 large shoulder labrum tears my Ortho fixed. 8 weeks locked in a sling to protect the repair has resulted in months of pt to pull loose and strengthen all the muscles/ligaments/tendons in my left arm and shoulder. It's been less than fun

[Eevie]

I know EXACTLY how you feel! I had tendinitis in my ankles and the regular exercises everyday were awful. Just gotta power through it!

[Sapphire Silk]

You'll see the pay off when you get your full range of motion in that shoulder yet.

[Akasa]

It's elbow, not shoulder. Range of motion up and down, and wrist flat palm down and palm up.

[Sapphire Silk]

Whups!

[dalesys]

Whups!

The elbow bone's connected to the shoulder bone...
(HsD here.)

[Company_Slave]

Akasa, I had the same surgery a few years ago. I know the physical therapy is a pain, but listen to them. My Therapist was a complete nazi about my therapy but I have back over 90% in both rotation and extention and 75% strength, when they told me best case was 80% R&E and 50% strength. If you don't have a permanent plate, I hear with enough work you can get to 95% rotation or more and extention and 80% or more strength!

[Company_Slave]

Also, I recommend finding an upperbody or arm bike to use! Hurts like hell but you'll watch your numbers shoot up!

[Akasa]

What is an upper body/arm bike?

[KatherineB]

What is an upper body/arm bike?

It's basically a bike-like set-up which you pedal with your arms instead of your legs. Oh, and you don't go anywhere. Like this:



They're great for building upper-body strength, increasing reach, etc.

[Seshat]

The elbow bone's connected to the shoulder bone...

Now heaaarrr the worrrrd of the physiotherapist!

[dalesys]

Now heaaarrr the worrrrd of the physiotherapist!

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