Shoulder Problems

I’ve been battling a shoulder injury lately. On Monday morning I visited Doug Chase at Active Therapy in Waterloo for an assessment. He started treatment, and he did explain what the problem was, but I forget the names of the muscles that he cited. They’ve been strained.

It was funny, because I asked him how these muscles might have been strained. The problem is in my right shoulder. He suggested that a very common cause is someone repeatedly stretching their arm back behind them, while seated in the front seat of a vehicle, to grab something from the back seat.

That was funny because my vehicle is currently my mobile office, generally with many files and documents in the backseat, and I frequently reach back to grab something. Doug had nailed it.

And I must now constantly remind myself to get out of the vehicle to retrieve my files, rather than reaching.