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Inconvenient, but so worthwhile.
Aug. 5th, 2013 11:03 pmIt takes a lot of time (and cash) to go all the way across town to visit Inconveniently Located Therapist, but I walk out of there feeling amazing. This morning we had an hour, and along with working on my hamstring we figured out what's wrong with my tweaky left shoulder and worked on my anterior pelvic tilt (which he says isn't that bad, actually).
It is SO GOOD to understand what the shoulder thing is, after a few weeks of knowing something's been messed up but not being able to isolate it. And it is... teres minor, the sad little muscle that always seems to get the short end of the stick. That thing has hurt like a sumbitch, on both sides, every time someone knowledgeable has given me a massage, and it doesn't surprise me that one of them has finally gotten hurt. I really perplexed the therapist for a while, though, since none of the usual shoulder things were hurting me; he had to try secondary and then tertiary tests on me to isolate it. Finally he had me hold my forearm in front of my eyes, palm out, and press UP against his hand -- "youch! That's it!!" We shared a little victory dance at having solved the puzzle.
Apparently this is an uncommon one (handbalancers don't GET the usual shoulder problems; we don't have usual shoulders). I am to do a windshield-wiper sort of exercise every day for a while, with a 3 pound weight. There there, little teres minor... that's right, settle down.
As for the pelvic tilt business, it was pretty intense to have the therapist leaning deep into my abdomen with his elbow to get my psoas, and digging his fingers in front of my hipbone (but deep!) to put pressure on the iliacus. It was weird and hurt a little and I just relaxed into it.
And the hamstring is getting better, after all those weeks of not getting better. The flexibility is starting to come back, and he was able to go deep today with the cross-fiber frictioning. I'm so pleased about that. I even did my straddle workout again on Saturday. and touched my chest to the floor at the very end. In the end I skipped three weeks of that, and lost about three weeks of progress, but I'm not in a bad place and nothing in my adductor area feels especially injured.
Happy wiggles. :-)
It is SO GOOD to understand what the shoulder thing is, after a few weeks of knowing something's been messed up but not being able to isolate it. And it is... teres minor, the sad little muscle that always seems to get the short end of the stick. That thing has hurt like a sumbitch, on both sides, every time someone knowledgeable has given me a massage, and it doesn't surprise me that one of them has finally gotten hurt. I really perplexed the therapist for a while, though, since none of the usual shoulder things were hurting me; he had to try secondary and then tertiary tests on me to isolate it. Finally he had me hold my forearm in front of my eyes, palm out, and press UP against his hand -- "youch! That's it!!" We shared a little victory dance at having solved the puzzle.
Apparently this is an uncommon one (handbalancers don't GET the usual shoulder problems; we don't have usual shoulders). I am to do a windshield-wiper sort of exercise every day for a while, with a 3 pound weight. There there, little teres minor... that's right, settle down.
As for the pelvic tilt business, it was pretty intense to have the therapist leaning deep into my abdomen with his elbow to get my psoas, and digging his fingers in front of my hipbone (but deep!) to put pressure on the iliacus. It was weird and hurt a little and I just relaxed into it.
And the hamstring is getting better, after all those weeks of not getting better. The flexibility is starting to come back, and he was able to go deep today with the cross-fiber frictioning. I'm so pleased about that. I even did my straddle workout again on Saturday. and touched my chest to the floor at the very end. In the end I skipped three weeks of that, and lost about three weeks of progress, but I'm not in a bad place and nothing in my adductor area feels especially injured.
Happy wiggles. :-)
