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[dchenes]

Got x-rayed and asked to do various things with both shoulders, and the verdict is impingement on the right side and tendonitis in both. Treatment to consist of PT for the rest of forever (three months is apparently not enough time), because shoulders take that long to heal and the right side is weak because I haven't been using it, because using it hurt. And if it still hurts after half of the rest of forever, we can think about cortisone shots.

Hm. Can't get an evaluation appointment for PT (not the same place I was going before, which was a madhouse and which wasn't helping as far as I could tell) until the day after the four-week follow-up with the orthopedist. That's going to be less help than it might, but I guess I can re-start the unhelpful exercises in the meantime on the theory that anything is better than nothing. And I can start the massage-every-other-week plan, which might at least be good for my neck. It ties itself in knots trying to compensate for my shoulder.

At least it's warm and no longer pouring rain outdoors. And it's Wednesday, so I can go home after my voice lesson and fall into mushroom ravioli and alfredo sauce. And it's voice lesson day, and that's been good lately. And tomorrow is technically Friday, because Friday is a holiday. I'm thoroughly in favor of that idea.

So far next weekend's Up To Something list goes like this, in no particular order:

- Massage
- Swan boats
- Minions, Inside Out, or both
- Townsman
- Breakfast out, or ice cream, at least once (maybe both at least once)

Thereby leaving a lot of time for anything else I might come up with to get Up To. So there.

Comments

[siercia]

tendonitis in which should bit specifically? I had a go-round with it in both shoulders, bicep tendons, and it did suck out loud. The shoulder that ended up frozen did take many months of twice a week PT before it got better. With the second one, I got a doc who was not interesting in faffing about and I got a cortisone shot before it got to that point, and it really helped it clear more quickly.

Your massage plan sounds like a good one, as half of my PT appointments were spent on massage of my neck, shoulder and upper back, all of which were, apparently, epically tied up in knots.

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

It's somewhere around the bursa on the right side (but it isn't bursitis; I asked) and in the long head of the biceps on the left. Neither one of those spots likes massage, but everything else connected to it does.