It's been almost 3.5 months since I hurt my shoulder. Since I somehow, in the middle of the night, managed to pinch or damage the long thoracic nerve. In turn, the damage on this nerve caused the winging in my shoulder blade.
Since I started PT at the beginning of June, my shoulder has come a very long way! It's winging at about half of the angle it was before, my strength is returning and I still have full range of motion most of the time. I say most of the time, because sometimes it locks up on me and I don't have that.
At today's session, she gave me some new exercises after massaging the neck and shoulder area and manipulating my neck/skull where the LTN starts. The tighter that area gets, the more my scapula wings and the more discomfort I experience. I do my stretches for that area several times throughout the day.
I've still been doing my 30 wall push ups per day. I do 15 in the morning and 15 at night. Some days are better than others for that exercise. Some days it doesn't bother me at all and others it makes my neck and shoulder hurt so badly I want to cry.
One of the exercises she gave me today was actually lifting weights (in a weird way) and I just giggled throughout the whole time we were doing that one. It was a very low weight (5lbs), but damnit I was lifting weights again! We have a machine in the gym at work that is very similar to the one she had me use today, so I'm going to see if it will work. If it does, I'll be incorporating those exercises into my workout routine. Every day.
Hoping to get a workout from The Trainer tomorrow. If not, I'm sure I'll make something up!
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