The following shoulder “first aid measures” could bring you at least temporary relief. Apart from that, the effect starts fast and could help you to avoid taking some medicines!
The following tips provide temporary decompression in the narrow acromion:
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• Let your hurting arm hang down at the side of your body with an additional weight in your hand, e.g. a filled-up bottle or a partly filled bucket for a few minutes.
• If necessary, let it swing back and forth a little. (How heavy the weight has to be, in order to be effective, depends on the individual stage of illness. Or you just have to try it out, it could be 1kg or it could be 5kg or 10kg that are necessary.) |
• Sit down and put your hand underneath your bottom.. |
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• Through sloping your body in the opposite direction, building up tension and thus pulling the arm.
• Hold this tension for a few minutes, if possible. Especially when pains often occur at night, get up and do this, it can help you get a few more hours sleep. |
• In order to not have to get up, you can lay out a therapy-rubber band or similar, which has two loops, ready for the night. When necessary, put one loop round your wrist and the other around your foot with your leg bent at the knee (fasten it well!). The rubber band has to be so short that it becomes taught when you stretch your leg and thus basically pulls your arm towards your foot! Be well prepared, then it can be done very fast.. This “stretching device” must not and should not be left on the whole night. 10-15 minutes are enough for a while..
• A comfortable solution to the “stretching device” is our shoulder night pain aid. This includes 2 comfortable loops with Velcro tape and a special therapy band.
• The above-mentioned can, for example, be carried out in the office. There it is actually a lot simpler. You simply put the one end of the band on the leg of your office chair and wrap the other end around your wrist in such a way that the band is taught and pulls your arm down when you sit up straight in your chair.
And if you have a boss who allows you to do one or two exercises every now and then, the working day becomes a lot easier to cope. Strictly speaking, your boss is not the last person to profit from a satisfied, productive colleague.
The following tip could help to stop or even improve inflammation processes:
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• Put a frozen gel cool pack in a thin piece of cloth. |
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• Then put it on the painful area until it has taken on body temperature and repeat this 5-8 times a day (and at night). |
Putting the shoulder active bar on without doing exercises brings about a different, relieving pressure in the acromion and can thus bring about a temporary soothing of pain!
And please avoid a mistake that is often made:
On inflammation to joints, please DO NOT USE WARMTH!!!
And if you exercise regularly with the shoulder active bar, you will soon no longer need “first aid”!
Get well soon!!!!
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