Kenalu Wiki74 and Boost Fin, 6/2023

[surfercook]

The epic paddle score!

[supmmmm]

Nice sesh - glad the paddle is working out for ya.

I have one of Yuval's old boards - just rode it today. Love it. Dude is pure stoke 😀🤙

[burchas]

The epic paddle score!

Fun edit Cookie. I'm a yogurt fan my self, learned a new thing

I have one of Yuval's old boards - just rode it today. Love it. Dude is pure stoke 😀🤙

Thanks supmmmm! I have good memories from that board. Good to hear it lives on.

Lots of stoke on the zone

[surfercook]

Yuval!! Paddle feels UNREAL 💪!! I can't believe the difference between the wiki 74 and carbonara 85. The 74 feels like I'm barely holding anything it's so light and the 85 feels like a lead broomstick! LOL
Quick session and edit today before going to work. Lucky me!
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[Night Wing]

@Cookie

Sorry to hear your surgically repaired shoulder is "not doing well". Both of my surgically repaired right and left shoulder joints weren't as invasive as your right shoulder replacement surgery.

After my first left shoulder surgery, my surgeon told me I would be in rehab for one month at the Sports Medicine complex at The Woodlands, Texas. Rehab was every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in one hour sessions for four weeks. After that, I was told to rehab my shoulder for the next eleven months at my home every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in one hour sessions. Result was no pain in my left shoulder.

I did the same thing after my right shoulder was operated and no pain in my right shoulder. My surgeon told me to get rid of my Werner 85 paddle and get a "75" paddle. So I ordered a women's small diameter Naish Alana 75, 2 piece paddle and it worked fabulous. So good in fact, I ordered a second Alana 75. Best paddle money I ever spent.

Nice to see you like your Boost fin. But maybe you might want to revisit surfing on a longboard. Should be easy on your right shoulder. The only caveat, your lower back has to be in good shape to do a pop-up.

Again, thanks for sharing your video.

[surfercook]

Thanx, NW. Been wondering if you'd show. Good deal. I was SO bad at rehab. Mostly because I dislike regimented exercise so much. I'm gonna take your advice and try a longboard session next op. I rode longboards for years. Always dug the glide. Alana paddle sounds nice. One of the lady surfers at our break here has an Alana sup.
Here's the last proper session I had on my longboard. The day I blew out my shoulder. March 2019. Got the tens unit on 50% as I type this reply. Hurts.

It's one of my least viewed vids. less than 100 views. Only a slide show. Prob why.

[Night Wing]

@ Cookie

Don't shoot the messenger (me) on this post.

When I had to do physical therapy on my left shoulder in 2002 and again on my right shoulder in 2017, both of my therapists told me the same thing.

Both of my therapists told me shoulder surgery usually takes about 12 months to properly heal. When people don't do the required time for therapy on their own at their homes, the surgery doesn't heal properly and there will always be pain in their joints. This is why I was told to do my therapy on my own at my home every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in one hour sessions for the entire 12 month period.

I did what I was told even when I wasn't in the mood or I had "other things to do". If I didn't have the time, I made the time because I didn't want to have sore shoulders for the rest of my life. And my left and right shoulders are pain free.

Most people, like you, don't like doing physical therapy. Most people complain therapy "hurt" in those sessions. And when released from therapy, per their insurance, when told to continue doing therapy at their home for the time needed, these people didn't.

These types of people think the area involved in their surgery whether it be shoulder, hips, knees, etc........will heal on their own without doing the necessary therapy at their homes. It won't heal properly because the ligaments and tendons will take the "wrong set" which gives them pain.

It seems to me you didn't do the required therapy and the time required on your own at your home and the ligaments and tendons in your right shoulder "took the wrong set" which is causing your pain.

If your right shoulder is really giving you pain; go back to your physical therapist, tell him/her you were complacent about doing the necessary physical therapy at your home for the time required and tell your therapist or whoever gets assigned to you, you need their help to get rid of the pain in your right shoulder.

Your therapist will do a "reset" for those ligaments and tendons. And that reset, it will........HURT. But stay at it and your shoulder pain should go away.

They will tell you after you leave their care, to do the required therapy (shoulder exercises) in the time allotted for sessions and for the time they say (months) at your home on your own and "do them".

As for thumbnail video, I saw it. Speaking just for myself, nothing beats a live action streaming video because I look for details in the live action.

[surfercook]

Thanx, NW. That is solid advice.

[Night Wing]

@ Cookie

One last thing which I think will be helpful to you.

When it comes to physical therapy for shoulders, some therapists like to do therapy on the shoulder every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Therapy on a five day schedule like in the previous sentence, makes the shoulder stay weak and it takes much longer to heal.

My therapists disagree with this schedule. What my therapists told me is when they work their patients shoulders on Monday in a one hour session, they work the shoulder hard.

The shoulder needs a day of rest to recuperate from the Monday's session. This makes the shoulder joint get stronger along with the subsequent ligaments and tendons.

Work the shoulder on Wednesday, rest the shoulder on Thursday, work the shoulder on Friday and rest the shoulder on Saturday and give a bonus rest day for the shoulder on Sunday.

All I know is my therapists patients heal fast, properly (in my opinion) where their shoulders are pain free with the "day of rest" between therapy sessions.

A little background on me.

I had my shoulder surgeries done at the Sports Medicine Complex, which is affiliated with Memorial Herman Hospital, at The Woodlands, Texas. At this place, the surgeons offices are on the second and third floors. The physical therapy rooms are on the second floor and the operating rooms are on the first floor.

Since this place is a sports medicine complex, the surgeons do a lot of operating on professional athletes such as pro players for the NBA Houston Rockets, NFL Houston Texans, etc, etc. If these surgeons do a poor job on a professional athlete, the player's sports pro career is ruined. The surgeons at this complex are adamant about the therapists doing the Monday, Wednesday and Friday therapy sessions. Not the five day therapy sessions.

If you go back to a therapist and he/she wants to do the five day therapy sessions, if you do and if the shoulder isn't responding like you think it should, then do the three day therapy sessions like I did and see if the result is different to your shoulder.

The above is just "food for thought" for you. And...................."I won't charge you a dime for this consultation". 

[surfercook]

"I won't charge you a dime for this consultation". 

LOL..Thanx. Every other day PT! Good to know.

[PonoBill]

Ditto for what NW said. Do MORE PT than you're supposed to. It makes a huge difference, and paddling is good PT (it's not enough, but it's good). Not just the little bursts of speed necessary to catch a wave. Head out to the horizon and back. An hour or more. According to my doc I shouldn't be able to raise my right arm above shoulder height. I can go all the way up, but if there's anything in my hands it either needs to find a place to stay right now, or it's coming back down.

[surfercook]

Do MORE PT than you're supposed to.

Thanks for ringing in, Pono. I'll try to get on that PT but I ain't making any promises! LOL

[PonoBill]

It's hard to make the time for PT, but I do it like I do anything I don't like. First I ask myself "If not now, then when". And then "how will later be better." That works about 50% of the time, which is way better than nothing.