Update

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would update you on the progress of my irritated nerve patient that I spoke about last week. I am happy to say that she is making progress. At the end of last week I tried taping her shoulder to unload it and she came back tuesday morning to say that she had the best night's sleep since Christmas over the weekend and didn't wake up in pain at all but then went on to say that Sunday, because she had to lift her son's wheel chair she was in pain yet again. So Tuesday's treatment only consisted of some STM of her UT's and LS that were quite tight and we taped her shoudler again. she seemed quite pleased with the treatment and was to return again on Friday. Friday I decided to reassess her NTPT's again to see if the irritation had decreased at all, and it did, I was able to get her arm into further abduction (for the radial nerve testing) then during the initial assessment. So based on these findings I decided it was time to get into her neck and do some lateral glides and open up that joint space. After the frist set she still complained of pain radiating down her arm but after the 3 sets were done the pain was gone!! So slowly but surely she is making improvements. Too bad I only get to see her one more time, I would really like to see how she progresses.