Showing posts with label Adhesive Capsulitis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adhesive Capsulitis. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

In the beginning


In the beginning there was pain, and there was much unhappiness...

This blog is to chart my progress through Frozen Shoulder, aka Adhesive Capsulitis.

I see there's another blogger who started one of these, but unfortunately didn't continue. We'll see if I do. Along the way I'm going to tell you about the various treatments and other information I uncover.

It all began a couple of days before my motorbike trip to central Australia, into some of the most amazing remote desert regions. On my lunchtime walk I picked up a sponge ball, and when I got back to the office I flung it over the partition to Bim.

It hurt straight away, and I knew I'd done some damage. Just before a very physically demanding motorbike trip. Good timing!

As it happened, I was able to do the trip without much impediment from the injury. The only time I noticed it was when I went to pick up a bike after our many prangs. I also recall starting to swim across the Diamentina River, and realising I couldn't properly swing my arm over my head.

Then when I returned I tried to fix my arm by exercising with light weights. Bad news; I wish I hadn't because all that happened was that it triggered the onset of Frozen Shoulder.

Postscript: I now know the damage was to my rotator cuff.