I've been a quad since 1973 and have ALWAYS done a series of stretching exercises which includes my shoulders.
****do the below at your own discretion***** Take arms out of covers, gently stretch arms/shoulders up over your head. Have someone help if you can't. Stretch eyes, they are muscles too, by looking left, looking right, looking up and the down. Put right hand behind left elbow and gently pull then do opposite elbo. I sit up in bed, doing long sitting, and lean forward putting my hands under my legs and pull gently. Sit up and repeat. Sitting up, as tall and straight as possible, I take my right hand place it inside my right knee and my left hand behind me anchoring me ... the look over my left shoulder. Repeat this looking over my right shoulder. While balancing place both arms behind my lower back and try to touch elbows. With both hands on my side bring left ear down to left shoulder, hold for 10 seconds, repeat 5 times. Do the same with right ear and shoulder. Then do the very same thing except when you bring your right ear down to your right shoulder turn your head ever so slowly to the right as far as comfortable and hold for 10 seconds. Lastly, roll your head from ear to ear. Never roll it back ... it's not natural. Bobbie Smile Everyday > On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Billy, I have been a c5 quad for 45 years. In the last ten I have noticed a > big difference in my arm strength and endurance. I have become very weak in > all my still working muscles. I chalk it up to growing old. Joints hurt too. > Growing old is a b...ch. growing old as a quad is a double b...ch. > > Sent from my iPad > > Begin forwarded message: > >> Resent-From: [email protected] >> From: William Lang III <[email protected]> >> Date: February 14, 2016 at 12:02:49 PM EST >> To: greg <[email protected]> >> Cc: quad-list <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Shoulders >> >> Greg, >> >> My shoulders have gotten progressively worse over the 26 years I have been a >> quad. A number of factors have gone into degrading the joint and tendon in >> both shoulders. Because we have little or no triceps we rotate all shoulders >> in ways they are not intended to be used. We really can’t help it. >> >> I have been through trials where they took blood, spin it down into >> platelets and reinjected it into the shoulder cavity. using an ultrasound >> to guide the needle they scraped calcified bone to fool the body into >> thinking it had to rush white blood cells into the cavity. The procedure was >> horrific, and the results not worth the pain. >> >> Right now I get injected with cortisone and lidocaine, every three months. >> This relieves the pain but there are diminishing returns. Eventually this is >> not going to help either. like you my left shoulder (I am right-handed so I >> don’t know if this matters) is my worst one. >> >> I use a product called Bio Freeze. It helps for a while. I Know the pain >> lessens at times with certain positioning. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> >> Billy >> In Feb 11, 2016, at 6:16 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My shoulder is so sore, like a knife stuck in my left shoulder blade. It >>> can hurt so bad some days I want to throw up. Other days nothing. The sun >>> or heat pad helps, but nothing else. No pain meds even dent the pain. Even >>> though I have no feeling in most of my arm, it often feels like I have a >>> numb nerve going down my arm out my middle finger. Like I banged my elbow >>> really hard on something. >>> >>> I have weird shoulder blades, but doc said not sure that would cause my >>> issues. From years in a chair, and sitting back with shoulders back, my >>> shoulder blades touch. Sometimes even over lap. >>> >>> Greg >> >> William Lang III >> [email protected] >> last 4: 0160 >> DOB: 05/12/1949 >>
