Sunday, March 10, 2013

March 5, 2013

I think it's time to teach Nora that old saying, "March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb"... We had what I'm hoping is the season's last snow storm today. We even got enough snow for Nora to get a snow day.

John and I ventured out for his follow-up with the orthopedic surgeon to check on his shoulder. The doctor's report: he's made nice progress in the reduction of his pain and the increase of active motion. At this point, he can move his hand to behind his back (which I hadn't seen since before his accident). He still lacks complete elevation, so he needs to continue to use his pulleys at home to stretch his shoulder and work on increasing his range of motion. The doctor told him that he thinks it's a reasonable expectation that he'll eventually have a shoulder he can use fully pain free. Apparently, there's a one-to-one correspondence of pain and motion -- the greater the range of motion he gets back, the less pain he'll have. So for the next four months, he needs to be particularly vigilant in stretching it out since adhesive capsilistis has a tendency to flare back up in the first few months after getting it under control; the exercises that he's been doing will keep his shoulder flexible enough to fully heal and hopefully ward off a relapse.

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