Exercises for loosening joints

[DaveC426913]

You can check your posture by standing back flat against a wall with palms out at shoulders. Wall contact points are heels. tail bone, and back of head. If you don't feel any pulling good. Now slowly raise hands sliding palms up the wall as far as you can. You should feel that

Update:

With heels and tailbone against the wall, I can just barely touch my head to the wall. It is uncomfortable, akin to any head rest.

I can touch the backs of my hands to the wall at shoulder height, but only a fair bit of discomfort at my shoulders.

While keeping my hands in contact with the wall, I am unable to raise my arms higher than my head, at least not without a great deal of pain.

 

[Point Conception]

Yes this you must do often. You can start this program first just with the contact points all against the wall . You can force this since that is the correcting mechanism. Then after you have all the points on the wall with minimum pulling . The
next phase is sliding back of hands up against the wall. Take as long as it take for phase one. Ie you are working against years of incorrect posture. So this is a soft tissue situation and controllable.

 

[berkeman]

Thread closed temporarily for Moderation...

 

[berkeman]

There has been too much medical-type advice given in this thread, so it needs to remain closed.

Dave -- please do talk to a local Physical Therapist or Personal Trainer to discuss your best ways forward.