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Week 6 Blog Post11/5/2023 This week was the week that I started physical therapy again. I went Monday and my shoulder was really bad and sensitive to everything. I could barely move it and had limited range of motion. I couldn’t do any of the exercises they tried to get me to do. All that we ended up doing that day was icing my shoulder and massaging it. After the appointment on Monday they told me that my shoulder was super bad and because of its condition they wanted to start seeing me two times a week. After I got done with physical therapy I went to rise to check in with my volleyball team. It was the first practice of the season and I didn’t want to leave her without an explanation of my absence. I told my coach about the history of my shoulder and everything that has happened. I told her how the physical therapist didn’t have an idea on how long I would be out yet. They just told me that I have to get over the initial pain, swelling, and inflammation stage of my injury before they can give me an idea of how long I’m going to be out. They have to wait for that stage to be over because once that stage is over I can start doing exercise for my shoulder. Once my shoulder actually allows for me to do those exercises the physical therapist will be able to further examine the strength of my shoulder and what the actual problem is within it. Once they find the actual problem that’ll tell them how long I will be out.Whenever I went back Wednesday my shoulder was in more pain than it was the appointment before. They said this was because of them messing with it that became inflamed. I had less movement and mobility on wednesday than I did before. This was a very bad appointment and it didn’t matter what I did my shoulder was hurting constantly. It felt like my shoulder had a heartbeat of just pain. They ended up finding a sac of fluid in my shoulder and they spent the rest of the appointment trying to massage the fluid out. At the end of the appointment I iced my shoulder and was told not to put anymore heat on it. Heat could cause temporarily satisfaction but in the long term it’s only going to do more damage. I was instructed not to do anything else involving my shoulder for the rest of the week except to ice it. I schedule my appointments for next week for Monday and Wednesday again. My physical therapist gave me simple exercises to try and do as tolerated but he didn’t know if I’d be able to do them at all. Which I did not end up doing because of the amount of pain I’ve been in.
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