Re: cheat_training_group shoulder injury - solved

Thank you Jennifer for your happy story!  Hence I do yoga every morning for 20 minutes for my shoulder, back, neck and rest of body.  I still have pain but manage it without ibuprofen. Keep up the good work!  SYOTR 

Carlos

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On Jul 22, 2019, at 7:59 AM, 'Jonathan Stevens' via LAKS advanced <upper_yough_training_group@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Jen,

Many thanks for sharing your email (below).

Jonathan

jonathanstevens@alum.mit.edu

On Sunday, July 21, 2019, 7:38 PM, Jennifer Sass <sass.jen@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

Some of you may recall that a few months ago I asked you all for advice on what to do about a shoulder that had been hurting me for over a year, and was getting worse. You all gave me excellent advice which I followed, and my shoulder is now fully functional and pain-free. 

I made an appointment with Dr. Brent Wiesel, an orthopaedic surgeon that specializes in shoulders, and specifically kayakers shoulders. He said as we age our big and small muscles degenerate. The problem is that my big muscles are still big because of kayaking etc, but my small muscles aren't getting the same workout and they are weakening. He sent me to PT, as you all predicted.

I found the most amazing PT rehab expert. Her name is Jennifer Akman. She said the small muscles that stabilize my scapula are weak, thus letting my shoulder blades (scapula) and shoulder slide forwards. In fact, she said the head of the humerus bone was so far forward it was barely in the socket (glenoid fossa). Yipes! I visited her about a half-dozen times, and she gave me about a half dozen easy exercises to do, which take me about 10 min each day. They do two things: (1) stretch open my pec/chest muscles to loosen up my chest muscles, and (2) strengthen the small scapula stabilizer muscles (suprascapularis, infrascapularis, subscapularis, lower trapezius) to pull back my shoulder blades.

I am now completely pain-free, and done with PT though I still do the exercises each day and work on holding my shoulder blades back and down.

My PT guru, who I would highly recommend is:

Jennifer Akman, PT, DPT, OCS

Jennifer.I.akman@medstar.net

301-581-8030

6410 Rockledge Dr, Suite 600, Bethesda MD

Thanks all, for great advice!!

SYOTR,

Jen

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