Good evening friends. I have not had shoulder injuries requiring surgery, however I have learned a number of physiotherapy exercises for injured shoulders. If you have the go ahead from your doctor to perform rehabilitative exercises, the following movements are greatly restorative to the soft tissues of your shoulders when done progressively over time.:
Windmills
Hindu Pushups
And a special drill that a kung fu student I used to know showed me which I will have to video to explain. I wish I knew the name. But I am a strong believer in movement as medicine, and despite a fairly serious injury to my knee a couple decades ago, and one to my foot a decade after that, and then my neck, and then my back, I have never relied on surgery or western medicine to "fix" myself, but only movement and the sweet and tender instruction of pain (and just enough to not reinjure!).
That being said, I don't think most of these injuries involved broken bones - except maybe the foot, and I don't know about the knee. I slammed it pretty hard - like
really hard - into an I-beam. Maybe I thought I was spiderman in my younger days...
And the foot, I had just showed off for some friend jumping over a large outcropping in the parking lot, but landed hard with a flat foot. I think I hobbled around on a broken toe for about a year.
Anyway, Windmills, Hindu Pushups, and I'll get that other one to you shortly. And the windmill, since most people have never done it, will (believe it or not) often bring
instant relief to some types of shoulder defects.
David Mary
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