Finding Physical Therapy Videos for Arm Online?

Question by R U Serious!: Finding Physical Therapy Videos for arm online?
I injured my elbow back in May. My muscles are very stiff and can’t fully extend my arm. I am going to a physical therapist on Monday and want to know if there are any videos I can view at home to start on my arm?

Best answer:

Answer by Hal Lancer
There are lots at YouTube. If you just search “elbow extension exercise,” you’ll see them. The quality of YouTube rehabilitation videos is all over the map, because anybody can put up a video, but some are quite good.

But if you’re starting formal physical therapy on Monday, I would just wait and give the therapist a full shot at it first rather than start a YouTube program. (I think of YouTube as the poor man’s–or cheapskate’s–physical therapy. ;-) In the meantime, it wouldn’t hurt to support the bad elbow with the good hand and just practice gently extending the bad arm until it just starts to hurt or resist, then flexing it back. Repeat ten times. Then wait a bit and do some more reps. Don’t force it into a really painful extension unless the therapist tells you to. If the next day, you can extend even a few degrees farther, you know the extension exercise was good… but if it hurts more, it was not good exercise to be doing. “Let the pain be your guide.”

Good luck with your new program on Monday.

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