Week 28 - Looking up

Thankfully the week is ending much better than it started. My arm is back to its usual not-great-but-not-that-bad movement. Physio wasn't necessarily convinced by my theory of adhesions, but I am more convinced than ever. I have no more pain around the deltoid insertion, the pain has now moved further down towards my elbow. So that makes sense to me - after the accident the muscles and tissue were swollen, bruised, and had all that blood from my shoulder draining down into them, and as the muscles are now getting worked and bigger, everything is getting stretched and the old stuck bits ripped.

Now if I could only get my shoulder working better. It feels a little like a holding pattern now - the muscles are coming back, the pain is receding, but I'm still frustrated by lack of movement behind my back.

Yesterday I went for a run, and my knee held up fine, and is also fine today. Bit stiff maybe, and a tiny bit of pain below my knee, where my shin joins in to it, but nothing major.

Bloody cold by the river, and a weird thing happened with my leggings - my legs were sweating from the run, and as the moisture wicked through the fabric it condensed on the outside when it hit the cold air, so it looked like I had a white cloud draped over my legs. So, so odd!

Physio session today was more cheerful, as neither of us had to look unhappily at my misbehaving shoulder. I had had time to hop on the airbike for 5 minutes, and stretch with the rings, so my shoulder was warmed up nicely. And the nasty metal tool didn't appear, so I was happy. Still a fair amount of pain inflicted, but nothing too major. Afterwards down to the gym to complete an upper body workout of:

Incline Rows (3 sets at 4kg)
Incline Flys (3 sets at 2kg)
Tricep Rope Pushdowns (3 sets at 7.5kg)
Lat Pulldowns (2 sets 15kg, 1 set 20kg)
Ring Pullups
Ring Stretches
Swiss Ball stretches
Pilates Arm workout (10 minutes)
Side Lying Abductor with 1kg Dumbbell
Door stretches (YTW)

5 more minutes on the airbike and done. Tomorrow is a rest day, with yoga and pilates. Except that my Indian Clubs are waiting for me at the Post Office, so if I can pick those up I won't be able to resist trying them out. Hopefully don't knock myself out in the process.

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