Quadius, When I go to bed at night I use a bean bag (heated in the microwave for 45 seconds) on my shoulder, I also use another on my back/ hip area. They both help me sleep better. I also use a shoulder one during the day when it is painful. A friend made the bean bags for me and they are great and easy to handle. , A cortizone shot might work, ask your Dr. if an injection will help bring down the inflamation. I hope this helps. Rose In a message dated 5/8/2014 9:53:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, quad...@gmail.com writes: I'm probably going to be way off base, but I am unable to move my arms and I find the best solution is to use armrest which support the arm and shoulder. I still have shoulder pain, but if I have the proper amount of air in my cushioned and I'm sitting in the appropriate spot in my chair, the pain is minimal.
I know it's more difficult when you drive chair with your hand, so I don't really have an answer there. A lot of my shoulder pain is because I have to have the back of my chair slightly reclined, because I get a tremendous amount of bladder pain if I sit upright. I feel for you and I hope you're able to get some sort of relief which also improves your quality of life. Quadius On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:57 PM, greg <_greg@eskimo.com_ (mailto:g...@eskimo.com) > wrote: After going to my doc and seeing a PT, they think my shoulder pain is mostly from being a quad for 32 years and my muscles are just no longer able to hold my shoulders in place. Since being a C/4-5 quad my shoulders have always been pretty week. Soon after my injury my muscles no longer would hold my shoulder blades in the correct place. They almost touch each other and my right shoulder hangs much lower than my left one. The PT is going to look for a shoulder compression brace. Some days it can hurt so bad I can't hardly move my arm. (#%@* Greg
