Mabon Elk Rut Moon
The waning of the golden aspen leaves has begun. The weather has become wetter and gloomier, all presaging the onset of late fall. This is the first month of the snow season here and elevations above 10,000 feet are already seeing regular snow though not a lot. Nothing in the immediate forecast for Shadow, Black and Conifer mountains, our rocky neighborhood.
Had a second physical therapy appointment today. This is a very different approach than my last round two years ago. Dana has focused on postural, neck and spine issues rather than muscle strengthening around my shoulder. She mobilized my spine, dug her fingers in at my neck and around my left scapula and gave me two more exercises. That brings me up to five right now: neck tucks, shoulder blade dips, setting my head at neutral, now looking toward my pocket after turning left and right and a modified yoga stretch while lying on my side and extending my arms, together, as far as they will go away from my body horizontally.
Oddly, Dana did not demonstrate the latter exercise, which she said she would normally do. Why? She broke a rib last Thursday during a particularly delicate adjustment on a patient. I don’t think of P.T. as a dangerous occupation.