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Today was the first day of physical therapy following getting the green light from the Ortho DR to begin strengthening exercises. This amoounted to a lot of pulling rubber bands of different resistance levels in different directions i.e. with my arm out at 90 degrees, elbow bend and "punching" straight ahread, rotating my forearm away from my body, rotating my forearm towards my body, and pulling the bands and different angles away from my body, and ending with exercises in which layed on my stomach and lifted a 5lb dumbbell from my arm extended down towards the floor and lifting it up, almost like a tricep kickback, but with my arm straight. The last exercise laying on my back and holding a 5lb weight straight up, pulling my shoulder in tight and basically rotating my arm clockwise and counter-clockwise 2 sets of 30 each. I wasnt sore at all following the exercises and I opted to skip the ice afterwards. I think next time I will need to increase the resistance.
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