And finally some useful therapies rather than all this high-faluting doctor and researcher stuff.
At work we have free coffee machines, they are about chest high and I usually visit them twice each morning to get the wake-up quota of caffiene. They grind their own beans for each cup so it takes about a minute to fill your mug. I take my left arm/hand and place it on the top of the machine in order to stretch out the bicep and pec muscles. Currently there is no way I can get the arm up there by itself. It stays there for maybe 2 minutes at a stretch, 2 fillups for my mug. I know this isn't much as far as massed practice is concerned and there definitely would be no research showing this to be useful for anything. But because we survivors are left completely on our own we have to come up with our own therapy protocols. Do not do something like this without your doctors ok.
I also prefer to space my exercises out over the whole day. I can't stay motivated if I pack my exercises into a long session I have to find space for in my schedule. I want to maintain the physical gains I made in rehab, but I'm not willing to make my life revolve around therapy until the day I die.
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