I have not, at least not yet. I'll see if I can find anyone locally. I've had crap luck with chiros, they press all my bullshit detector red alert flashing lights, heh. I do, however, have a fantastic massage therapist who can get his thumb deep into the joint and sort of force more space into it. It sounds awful but it really helps.
I went because several students recommended. His nickname is magic fingers. He does not do the pop and crack stuff. He works the trigger point areas while moving you through various ranges of motion. He also gave me some exercises to do in between visits. He was the one who told me on my very first visit that he thought the joint was toast. Now, my ortho and a general doctor had both said it was soft tissue. He also ordered the mri which proved he was right. There is another art person in nashville that the celebrities and titans use. I tried him but he was more agrressive than magic fingers. No popping spine ...just stretching through ranges of motion. It is worth one visit to see if it helps.
indeed, it might be, and everything is worth looking at. Is it similar to myofascial release massage? Because my therapist does do that, and it sounds similar, working through range of motion with various pressures on the joint and surrounding tissues.
The chiros I've seen have tried to suggest they're curing everything from athsma to fever, and that we shouldn't ever get vaccinations, and....it was just a turnoff. And I think it's a shame, because if they got to working with medical best practices, I think the techniques have a lot of merit.
edit to add: I'm doing searches in my area to see if I can find anybody using the technique, thanks!
Hah, yeah, I've been doing it for a while now. The range of motion is JUST now such that I can even get it to hang behind my back. It's been a long road.
The external rotation one, they have me lie like the woman in the picture, and use a light cane held in my good hand to push the hand back towards the floor. Hurts like hell. But since when I try it with my good shoulder and my hand easily flops back to the ground, I guess I can see why it's necessary ;-)
I've been having a lot of shoulder stuff lately too. Doesn't help when Rumble YANKS that rotator cuff during a tug session last weekend. I'll try these! Slowly, ya know, so I don't have to run screaming. yikes.
The 'really bad' stretch looks so basic and easy it is very hard for me to understand how that could be painful. Your whole shoulder thing has been most educational for me. So happy you can dry between your shoulder blades now!
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The chiros I've seen have tried to suggest they're curing everything from athsma to fever, and that we shouldn't ever get vaccinations, and....it was just a turnoff. And I think it's a shame, because if they got to working with medical best practices, I think the techniques have a lot of merit.
edit to add: I'm doing searches in my area to see if I can find anybody using the technique, thanks!
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The external rotation one, they have me lie like the woman in the picture, and use a light cane held in my good hand to push the hand back towards the floor. Hurts like hell. But since when I try it with my good shoulder and my hand easily flops back to the ground, I guess I can see why it's necessary ;-)
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I'll try these! Slowly, ya know, so I don't have to run screaming. yikes.
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And yeah, that second stretch is not a stretch on my good shoulder. It's really that stiff. Weird stuff.
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