This is another site I found ages ago that I liked.
It's listed in the useful stickys post #1 - but I'd like to add it onto this thread also.

http://www.bodymindresources.com/Class1/Class1lab.htm

Here's the main page for all info/overview-
http://www.bodymindresources.com/

Thanks for all the above info

http://physicalliving.com/exclusive-...hed=1&ids=2953
I thought this interview was really interesting. He talks about a lot of things that I've never heard before. It's pretty long but the part where he's talks about joint mobility starts 24 minutes into it.

One of these days I'm hoping to do some posts on how much I've improved from stretching, but not today. I overdid some new stretches yesterday and my shoulders are tight and hands are swollen. Unfortunately, that's how it's been from the start of my stretching journey. There's many ups and downs, it's not a steady uphill climb.

Most of last year I felt worse. It wasn't until the last couple months that I've started to see some big improvements in some areas. I'm constantly playing around feeling for tight areas and figuring ways to stretch them. It's usually when I try something new that I flare up but that's how I learn. There's no way around that, that I know of. It takes so much patience and persistence and can be very frustrating and discouraging at times.

It's really true though, we each have to more or less experiment for ourselves to see what will work for us.

And to find our limits as to what is a little bit too much, then you go back a step and then go forward with a smaller increase. Baby steps are about the best way for us to go forward.

I still will overdo once in awhile, especially if I've lapsed on my stretches like I have this long winter.

Still having some cool weather here and it's just hard to get myself moving to loosen up in the mornings...and I can really feel the difference when we have a warm day vs a chilly day.

If you guys only knew how many wrong keys I hit ...LOL
thank you to Firefox for the built in spell check

I don't know if anyone listened to that interview with Scott Sonnon that I posted here but he mentions how bad bodybuilding is for you. Unfortunately, I did a lot of that in my younger days and I think it's caused a lot of my problems. It compresses your joints and it can cause nerve impingement, rounded shoulders, and many other problems. He's a coach for many types of athletes and he says," Bodybuilding is as close to death as you can come while remaining animate". That's an exact quote from that interview. If you're someone that does any weightlifting you may want to listen to it.

Since I had surgery 20 years ago(scalenectomy) on my right side it's always been worse and more painful than the non surgery side. However, lately I've been noticing that the two sides are getting more evenly matched. In fact, during this last flare up that I've had there's been more pain in the nonsurgical arm than the surgical one. Also, I've noticed that I now have better flexibility on the surgical side than the nonsurgical side. So what does this mean? Could it be possible that the surgery I had 20 years ago did me some good but I just never had the proper therapy to release all the adhesions? I did work that way for more than 10 years before I was ever diagnosed with TOS and had the surgery. I don't know but this is getting pretty interesting. I just plan to keep on stretching and see what happens.