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Week 7 Blog Post11/12/2023 This week I had physical therapy again two times a week Monday and Wednesday. On Monday I still was not allowed to do anything with my shoulder. It still had a guard presented and was super stiff. I had to continue to get my shoulder massaged and stretched throughout this appointment because everything else hurt too bad. However, on Tuesday I went to hangout with my aunt and she has a bemer machine. A bemer is an e-stem device that stimulates and increases blood flow to muscles to increase performance and recovery. It also takes away inflammation and swelling but stabilizes the tendons and tightens them back up. This is exactly what my shoulder needed. I needed that sac of fluid to release, inflammation to decrease, and my tendons to tighten back up to where they are supposed to be located at. My aunt said that the bemer helps her knee to feel better after she does a session of the therapy. After hearing all that it was supposed to do and how it helped her I thought I’d give it a try because at this point even my physical therapist said that my shoulder couldn’t become any worse than it already was. I thought that if the bemer helped that would be good but if it didn’t that would’ve been what I expected because nothing else so far had seemed to help at all. After the 20 minute session of having the bemer on I took it off and my shoulder popped. It was a good pop though and after it popped I had a complete full range of motion with no grinding or rubbing feeling in my shoulder. My shoulder almost instantly stopped hurting. I went home that night and was finally able to completely sleep through the night without waking up in pain for the first time in two weeks. I even woke up the next morning feeling good. My shoulder didn’t have to pop first thing in the morning for me to get my range of motion but I just woke up having it and without pain. I went to therapy that afternoon since it was now Wednesday when I woke up and the therapist was completely shocked with everything that I was able to do without pain. He said that the sac of fluid that was in my shoulder had shrunk by three times the original size it was. They were able to press on my shoulder for the first time and I was allowed to do rehab since I was finally able to do exercises. The therapist had to change his whole plan for the appointment because he thought that I would still be in as bad shape Wednesday as I was Monday. We didn’t add any weights to the exercises this week because he didn’t want to do too much to push it to its limits to where we go backwards rather than continuing to progress. We hope to start getting into more physical workouts next week with weights rather than just simple exercises. However, this week was a major milestone to my recovery and I’m very thankful for that. For once I’m actually excited about going to physical therapy next week and seeing what happens with my shoulder with a full week of actual therapy.
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Ace Rucker
12/5/2023 10:38:20 am
It sounds like this was real progress. I'm happy you are getting better!
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