What have you been doing today?

[JonathanM]

I never took anything for it, neither last year suffering for months with my right, nor this past week suffering with my left. I avoid taking anything which has not been prescribed. Each time, the arm felt OK just hanging limp, at my side, the pain came if I tried to change the shoulder angle of the arm, to my body. I would find myself reaching over with the good arm, to take the weight of and reposition the bad one. I was fine carrying the weight of shopping bags, even with the bad arm.

Several physio appointments, last year, provided little help, just phone calls from the therapist and emailed links to exercises. It would be helpful to know what actually triggers the issue?

I think Mottie and myself had problems, in some way, with the rotator cuff, which is caused by some sort of tear or degradation or inflammation to one of the muscles or tendons which move the shoulder. A proper frozen shoulder, I think, is different. The tissues surrounding the shoulder become inflamed and inflexible and this stops the normal movement of shoulder. As far as I can see, they don't really seem to know why it happens, except often it occurs when the shoulder is immobilised whilst recovering from another type of shoulder injury.

 

[Mottie]

1st night. Motteville. Booked.
2nd night. Honfluer. Booked.
3rd night. Mont Saint Michel. Booked.
Probably have a couple of nights in Rouen before heading home. Not sure yet whether to go city centre or just on the outskirts.

Rouen now booked. City centre. I booked and paid direct with hotel and approx £100 cheaper than through Booking.com although no cancellation. Can’t see us cancelling though unless we have a sudden lockdown again but with Boris out of the picture, there’s not much chance of that happening.

 

[Brigadier]

they don't really seem to know why it happens,

My bet?

The shoulder joint is a big trade-off between range-of-motion, and stability.

Some strong and powerful muscles and tendons, and some much less so. These these weaker ones though, are essentially for stability.

Like all muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones, they become stronger through use.

If you don't do specific (and unnatural, in the case of infraspinatus -see the video) exercises, these will become weaker and weaker.
To the point where you'll either injure them unscrewing the tops from pop bottles*, or be moving in a subtly but unnatural way, and degrading the joint over a long period of time.


*example to illustrate trivial nature of how you may eventually injure yourself -"it just went! " - when, in reality, you'd been injuring yourself for years.
I am not saying unscrewing pop bottle tops is a dangerous pasttime....

 

[JonathanM]

The shoulder joint is a big trade-off between range-of-motion, and stability.

Some strong and powerful muscles and tendons, and some much less so. These these weaker ones though, are essentially for stability.

Like all muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones, they become stronger through use.

If you don't do specific (and unnatural, in the case of infraspinatus -see the video) exercises, these will become weaker and weaker.
To the point where you'll either injure them unscrewing the tops from pop bottles*, or be moving in a subtly but unnatural way, and degrading the joint over a long period of time.

In my case, I'm pretty sure the problem is with the supraspinatus. I can feel it all the way from my right shoulder blade, through the top of my shoulder and down the front of my arm. I can definitely see how that could be caused by an imbalance. It is worst when I push down forcefully on something through my shoulder, like a polishing a car motion. I've been doing a well known exercise where you squeeze your shoulder blades together and down, to add some more pulling to the mix. And also making sure my posture is not hunched. I'm not sure if this would count as an unnatural exercise. In general, the idea of doing exercises that are unnatural instinctively feels wrong, because I would worry is I was messing with the way things are supposed to be, which might have the unintended effect of making things worse.

 

[Brigadier]

In my case, I'm pretty sure the problem is with the supraspinatus. I can feel it all the way from my right shoulder blade, through the top of my shoulder and down the front of my arm. I can definitely see how that could be caused by an imbalance. It is worst when I push down forcefully on something through my shoulder, like a polishing a car motion. I've been doing a well known exercise where you squeeze your shoulder blades together and down, to add some more pulling to the mix. And also making sure my posture is not hunched. I'm not sure if this would count as an unnatural exercise. In general, the idea of doing exercises that are unnatural instinctively feels wrong, because I would worry is I was messing with the way things are supposed to be, which might have the unintended effect of making things worse.

Get a resistance band.

Tuck elbows in at sides.

Bend arms at elbow, hands to front, thumbs up.

Grip resistance band in both hands.

Gradually - keeping elbows tucked in -move hands apart, to parallel with hip-to-hip plane.
The only things that should move arm your forearms.

Definitely not a natural movement though.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Been chugging up and down the river Wey and the Wey Nav, moored up at a pub for lunch. Lovely down here.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Only bad thing is the infestation of paddle boarders making a nuisance of themselves, similar to the just stop oil prigs.

 

[Mottie]

Went for a walk around Danbury with Mrs Mottie today. Some charity based thing where you can go in other peoples gardens to look at what they've done. Slightly underwhelming but it was for a good cause. The heat beat us back though and we came home early. Saw a cracking Mini Moke there. Mint condition.

 

[JonathanM]

I forgot all about it being hot outside

I've actually been a bit chilly and have had a blanket on in the lounge. And a bodywarmer.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Gym twice & Beer in garden

 

[Mottie]

Just got back from splashing some more water around on the allotment and picked some salad to go towards tomorrows lunch.

 

[Stivino]

There's nothing like a wet lettuce.

 

[Mottie]

Early dog walk this morning because of the heat - she just doesn’t get on in the heat and we stayed in the woods.

Turned the house upside down looking for some Euros that I thought I had in a wallet - Mrs mottie is going away for a few days in Spain. Couldn’t even find the wallet so went out and got some for her. Got home and put them in this travel pouch we have for passports, GHIC cards, insurance, tickets etc and found them in there. Oh well, I'm sure she'll make good use of them.

Finally, Thames water came and removed the barriers and reopened our road after six weeks replacing our drains. I got my pressure washer out and cleaned up the mess - mud, sand, cement in our drive and on the pavement outside ours and our neighbours houses - Thames water can do the road although I suspect we won’t see them anytime soon.

Fixed my leaking toilet cistern thank to the help from Andy @HERTS P&D. Next time I buy something to fit, I’m going to read the instructions before I fit it.

Right, off out now - I can hear my crops gasping for a drop of water!

 

[JonathanM]

Trying out my new prescription sunglasses, which arrived early this afternoon. The website says they're made in either Thailand or Pakistan. They took nine days from ordering to get here and they are perfect. All for £21.80.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

A bit of a busy evening - Another BBQ on the summerhouse veranda yesterday evening, with yesterday being so incredibly hot here, I had three shirt changes and four showers. She decided to trim my hair, I did hers, then we started on the dog's hair. The garden chairs are a little low, for the BBQ dining table on the veranda, so we had sort of planned to seek out some thick foam, to make cushions from, on Friday. She'd already sorted out some material for the cushion covers, picked up new, in a charity shop for a tenner....

Stacked up for the councils 'bulky rubbish collection', was a load of old carpet, and the cushion part of a redundant sun-lounger, stuffed with foam. Come 10pm, we got the bright idea of diverting the foam from the sun-lounger cushion, to make new, thick, seat cushions from. As a result, we were out on the veranda, lights on, transferring the loose foam, from the sun-lounger, to some cut down pillow cases. It wasn't easy, trying to pack the loose bits of foam in as tight as it needed to be - I ended up using a short bit of fall pipe, then using a smaller pipe to ram it tight into the pillow cases. It was 1am, before we finally got the pillow cases stitched closed with the sewing machine.

The machine is left out, she is planning to make up, the cushion covers, from the material she bought, after she finishes work today. She's also on about making a matching BBQ table cloth, with the left-over material.