I will add another up date. 1st is crazy!!!! I just discovered a SUPER easy way to get a coat on ALONE! (This is after you leave the sling) Just wish I had stumbled on it 4 weeks ago, with all the taking the dogs out! OK, you need a coat with a hood(go get one at Goodwill if you have to), & a hook at chin/neck level. Hang coat from the top of the hood, not the neck. Pull coat open to find & put you "bad" arm in it's sleeve 1st. Take a step out(pulls the coat wide open while still hanging on hook) spin your back into now open coat. Can get your good arm in it's sleeve easily! The hardest part is having to unhook the hood. It's like someone holding a coat for you!!! OK, it's the little things that make my day.
Shoulder up date: No more flash backs to my lower arm just doing what it should do? :-( Still only a little improvement on the movement of lower arm out from body(but, I can crack an egg open in frying pan, without risk burning my stomach now!), & yes, I do crank on it with the cane at home. I'd say 5 maybe 10% improvement on what "I" can physically do self directed movement wise, in the air. PT can get a lot more when he cranks on it(another reason for the now 3 times a week). I have set up a lot stuff at home, to do most the general PT he has me do there, arm pulley for general loosing/stretching, & cane work, pulling my lower arm out from body using my hand to grip door trim(he said to pull the elbow into body with my other hand), and elastic work now, etc. The 3 times a week now, he is mostly focusing on the the stuff I can't do at home. The deep hard ouch massage in the back of LF shoulder blade(I can't reach or even do it well anywhere, with the nerve damage to my RT(good hand, I'll add, he showed me the massage hook. 1) I don't have good control of my RT hand or LF really, 2)plus am so skinney(add muscle atrophy now, 3) They are too hard.) that's is breaking/looseing up stuff. About 3 different types/ways of electrical simulation. Some heavy duty cranking on getting the lower arm to rotate out. Last time, under electrical simulation, I could FINALLY push out(sliding lower arm/wrist out, while resting it on table a tiny bit. He was excited, so I guess I should be too, it is something I didn't have before. But this is 2 months out! He has brought up dry needling for bango tight spot in the back....... I HATE needles! But, I can't "see" back there...........? Anyone have dry needling done? So much for being a 4 month good to go person.