As I go to bed each night I try to do some exercises. The current one is to lay my left arm at 90 degrees to my body(this forces my pectoralis to relax) and from the forearm pointing straight up, lower the arm to level or below the bed. It is hanging over the bed at this time. My first one takes a minute or so to accomplish because I have to verbally abuse my spastic bicep to stop behaving like a spoiled brat, getting his way all the time. I do between 25 and 50 a night. After that is done I work on just raising and lowering the forearm 4-6 inches, this goes much faster and I'll change the position in order to cover the full range of straightening the arm.. After that I try to position the arm so the pectoralis muscle is straightened out, this occurs by grabbing the spindles in the headboard and pulling the whole arm over my head, the arm is bent but the bicep spasticity was worked on earlier. This is called PMS(prolonged muscle stretch), posted about here:
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/04/prolonged-muscle-stretch-on-spastic.html
But nothing here has any scientific basis so don't even bother to ask your doctor or therapist about it. This comes from the do-it-yourself therapy proposed by Dr. Steven Wolf;
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/03/problem-solving-for-stroke-rehab.html
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