some possibly good news

Ever since I added dumbbell bench presses to my routine, I think my frozen shoulder (left shoulder) has begun to improve. While the problem with frozen shoulder is how it limits your range of motion, the solution may be to put pressure on the joint through weight. I admit that the bench presses I'm doing are on my bed, i.e., I'm not on a narrow bench where my elbows can sink below the level of my torso, but that day may be coming soon.*

But it could also be that it's been a couple years, so the frozen shoulder is now just "thawing" on its own. With these long-lasting conditions, it's kind of hard to tell.

PS: I have at least two ways to measure the disappearance of my frozen shoulder: (1) Can I put a button-down shirt on the way I used to? —and (2) Can I do kettlebell around-the-worlds the normal way instead of doing semicircles, which is what I do now? Well, today, I put my button-down shirt on the normal way, but I still can't do around-the-worlds the right way** because doing the handoff behind my back is still too painful. I'll eventually need to see whether I can do a full-body hang without screaming in agony.

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*I can simulate a true bench by doing bench presses with my head at one corner of my bed and my body lying diagonally across it. This would give my elbows room to sink down for a fuller range of motion. But the whole point of using the bed in the first place was to prevent pain from overextension, so... let's do this in baby steps, yes?

**More badass version of the exercise here. This adds antirotation to the mix.