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The Top Line of the Blackboard Is Still Out of Reach

I am fifty-two, and I teach Bangla at a school here in Chattogram. Two months ago I slipped on the wet floor at home and landed on my right shoulder. Nothing was broken, my doctor said, but the joint stiffened while I rested it. She told me plainly: the shoulder needs guided exercise with a physiotherapist, and resting it longer would only stiffen it more.

My classroom tests me every morning. I write on the board all day, and the top line needs a full reach above my head. By the second class my arm starts to cheat, and the letters slide downhill. Then there is my book bag. Carrying it from the rickshaw stand to the staff room has become a two-handed job.

I did not know where to begin. My daughter searched on her phone one evening. She went through DoctorBD24's directory of doctors in Chattogram, just to see how this kind of help is usually found. A senior teacher at my school then shared where she had taken her own mother. Between the two, I had a name and a number by Friday.

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The Top Line of the Blackboard Is Still Out of Reach

First, She Watched Me Reach

There was no exercise in the first ten minutes. The physiotherapist asked me to lift my arm the way I do in class, slowly, and stop where it stopped. She asked about my medicines and which hand carries my bag. Only then did she lay out a plan on a card I still keep.

Sessions Are Built Around a Piece of Chalk

Each session starts with gentle movement to warm the joint. Then comes the guided work: her hand under my elbow, my arm travelling further than I would dare. Some days we practise the motion of writing, palm flat against the wall, sliding upward. When a movement turns easy, she makes it harder in the same session. She watches my face as much as my shoulder.

My Bedroom Wall Does the Evening Shift

The sessions are only half of it. She gave me a short set of movements for home, using the bedroom wall and a rolled towel. My husband marks a pencil line where my fingertips reach. Some evenings the line moves up. Some evenings it does not, and I have learned not to argue with it. I report honestly at the next session.

My Tablets Stay Between Me and My Doctor

I take a tablet my doctor set for me long ago. It runs exactly as she wrote it, and the physiotherapist has never once asked to change it. Exercises are her side of my care. Tablets are not. If one ever troubles me, that question goes back to my doctor, not onto the exercise card.

The Morning She Stopped Everything

One morning my shoulder felt hot, with a new, sharp pain. The physiotherapist stopped before we began. She said a change like that is not hers to judge, and she sent me back to my doctor the same week. Some problems point beyond exercise, toward a different doctor. Families here look through the DoctorBD24 page for general surgeons in Chattogram when an operation becomes the question.

What I Asked Before I Settled In

What happens in the very first session?

Mostly watching and measuring. She checks how far the joint moves, and only then plans the exercises.

Do I have to stop teaching during this?

I did not. My sessions sit after school hours. The home set takes ten minutes, twice a day.

How will I know the reach is really returning?

The pencil line tells me. It climbs a little, the board's top line gets closer, and the bag feels lighter in one hand.

Can the physiotherapist change my night tablet?

No. She never touches medicines at all. Tablet questions go back to the doctor who set it.

What if the shoulder feels worse on a given day?

Say so before the session starts. She eases the work that day and notes it, instead of pushing through.

What sudden trouble means hospital the same day, not a session?

One side of your body suddenly going weak. Your bladder or bowels slipping beyond your control. A limb that refuses to move after a fall. Bad pain with a rising fever, or pain in your chest with trouble breathing. Skip the session and get to a hospital that day.

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