Lift Ribs and Shoulder Injury

[mranster]

I was reading through Kiona's Korner about lifting ribs, and decided to focus on that during my MORE w/o today.

For several months now, I've been plagued with this obnoxious little shoulder injury. Seems like the head of my humerus is rotated forward, and the top of my anterior deltoid goes >PING< whenever I reach around behind me, and sometimes other parts will do it more or less at random.

I've been very gently doing just a couple of the arm moves in plie', but today, I focused on lifting my ribs throughout, and I noticed much less pain, and very little >PING<. Just a few twinges. Yay!

In general, the T-Tapp way of engaging my shoulder girdle and lats will tend to pull the humerus back where it belongs. I suppose the fact that all of this takes some extra effort might have something to do with my having the shoulder injury in the first place, eh?

[ayj67]

Miranda,

Do More Chair and More Broom too, it will speed things up for you. The Broom stepping DVD might be great to add to your physical therapy. There is a session on The Broom that will be an equivalent of doing BWO+ with a Broom, that you will definitely be lifting ribs with lats engaged the whole time.

[mranster]

Thanks, I will try this. I haven't done the Chair or Broom yet. With my CFS, I can only do a workout every few days, no more frequently, so I try to go for the main workout when I do, but it might be a good thing to focus on healing this shoulder for now.

[ayj67]

Miranda, for rehab, I will alternate More one day, and then the next workout day, you can do More chair (it has the build in spinal stretch) first, then More Broom, and follow with Step Away, they add to 20 mins too.

[BlessedMama]

That's great, Miranda! Yes, ribs up helps equalizes all the muscles holding the shoulder joint, so less potential for injury. Among many other good benefits, too!

[T'appy Tapper]

That's so neat! At the time I started T-Tapp, I was still recovering from tearing my rotator cuff. ( fell down a flight of stairs) I noticed that my shoulder would be sore before starting the workout, but by the time I finished PBS, it was significantly better. After a few more moves there was NO pain! It's true that T-Tapp is truly a rehabilitative workout!

[mranster]

This is really great feedback, everyone! Thank you, Aurora; I've made a playlist with your suggestions and can hardly wait for my next exercise day to try it.

Emily, ouch! So glad you're getting better. I didn't do anything in particular to my shoulder, just lived with scoliosis for a long time. The T-Tapp is starting to fill in the hollow in my upper back, between my shoulder blades. My sweetie and have been hypothesizing that I might have used very few of my shoulder muscles all this time, and eventually the ones I was using just went poof.

There's a rehab move he suggested I do, where you bring one arm in like a chicken wing, and use your elbow to "draw" letters in the air, big block letters. It's a range of motion exercise. I notice when I do that, there's a place in my upper back that gets inflamed, which it historically has when I do anything unusual with my arms. For example, I first noticed that pain when I learned to drive a stick shift. So I really think my upper chest, back and shoulder array has some relearning to do.

I'm grateful for the advice and will definitely try it. I hadn't tried Broom yet, and this is a good excuse to do it.