It's taken a long time, but reaching is starting to get a lot easier for me. For the first time in many years, I'm actually able to lock my elbows out without pain. So now I'm starting to reach from the shoulder and all the upper back muscles are starting to loosen up. The lats, the traps, the rhomboids, all that stuff. It's pretty neat. Sometimes, it seems like you work on certain areas over and over, without much progress, and then all of a sudden, the muscles start to let go. Persistence pays off.

This is an exercise I like a lot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ffpcRxWgsg

For many years, I couldn't even turn my palms up right in front of me. Now I can do movements like this. That's how effective joint mobility can be if you work at it.

Ohhhhh..... thats a tough move!!!!!! It makes me realise how tight I am in that region. I will work on it though- very CAREFULLY. The words in my head sound abit like this..... "Come on woman your 38 not 83".

Oh man, that brings back memories from when I trained martial arts. That exercise is straight out of baguazhang kung fu. I was thinking just the other day that baguazhang has a lot of nerve glides built into it. Enjoy!

Enjoy! I watched the video and had a flare.

Keep going as your getting progress, congrats. My goal is to crack the seal on the video I bought one year from now.

Which video will you be cracking the seal on?

By the way, this reads humorously as if simply watching the video caused a flare.

I did get a flare buy watching the video. There is NO WAY I could balance tea while swooshing my arms around. It reminded me of the spinning plate circus act.

I did buy the Scott Sonnon video, as it looks like it could have potential if I continue to make progress over the next year or so. Not opening though as I'd be tempted to try some movements and I've learned from enough mistakes!

My latest exercise tools are a pair of 2lb exercise/pilates balls and a 5lb kettlebell. Mainly I use these to get a little better stretch from some of my exercises. These things can be swung, twisted, turned, and rotated. I'm really into the three dimensional type of movements.

When I was young, I did a lot of bodybuilding with free weights. It didn't occur to me back then, but most of my exercise movements were done in straight lines. How often do you move that way in real life? Not many. Most real life, everyday movements, are more three dimensional.

TOS in my case, was largely a repetitive strain injury, I think. Lifting weights, and doing bodybuilding type movements just added to that, but that was 30 years ago and I didn't know any better. 30 years ago, there was pretty much no information out there on TOS and repetitive strain injuries.

So now everything I do is more three dimensional movement type exercises. I'm trying to get all the flow back in my body. This stuff is working way better than the Edgelow protocol ever did for me. There just wasn't enough movement in it. I've spent hours working on my shoulders and arms. Lying on foam rollers and breathing can only get you so far.