If you put your hands behind your head can you then….

[saxonyv]

touch your elbows to the wall behind/floor underneath (or just generally put them in that position so they are opposite your ears)

Some weird threads on here sometimes, but good for a smile /laugh.

I have frozen shoulder! Have anaesthetic arthrogram next week but not holding out much hope!

how was the surgery?

Yes but it isn’t that easy

I’m glad it’s not just me.

I thought the same! Assumed the poster meant point your elbows behind your head to touch the wall behind you which I most definitely can’t do!

If you just mean your arms and elbows are bent pointing to your left and right if you face forward, then yes!

No, I think the statement people should be able to touch their elbows to the wall behind them is fine without specifying for contingencies.
Just like people should be able to walk or you should be able to pay at the counter, it’s not necessary to add unless every time for the sentence to make sense. Should implies an expectation, it doesn’t imply certainty.

Should was fine. You then followed it up with definitely

Can we have a diagram @saxonyv ?

Yes - and I have some lingering issues from a frozen shoulder. Last year I couldn't have moved my left elbow anywhere.

I don't think I know what I am meant to be doing. I am quite flexible and fit, but no where near being able to do this

If you mean like when you’re lying in bed and you put your hands behind your head and your elbows flat out to the side - then yes easily.

If you mean putting your hands behind your head whilst standing in front of a wall and getting your elbows to touch the wall behind you - then no definitely not.

My right elbow can't quite make it to the wall. I think it would have done a year ago, but at the end of last year I fell and my shoulder flexibility has definitely not been the same since. Slowly getting there, but not yet.

Interestingly, I can easily do it lying down, touching the floor. I would have thought it was the same position, but clearly it isn't!

That isn't what was said though is it? There was no qualifier about being "a healthy, able bodied person". Would you word it the same way if the question had been "Can you walk 20 feet?" and the answer "Yes and you definitely should be able to"?

it's a very easy posture to assume for an an able-bodied person (which I assumed was a given).
Interesting assumption. Why would you assume that?

You "expect" people to be able to walk? Digging a hole deeper somewhat? It is expectations like this that result in continued inaccessibility. There are a wide range of people with an even wider range of abilities - why "expect" anything?

No.

Edit: OK I have totally misunderstood what the position is, judging by googling this. I will get back to you! 😂

The answer is till 'no' !

I could before I had an accident & had my shoulder replaced. I think I could have after a couple of years healing & exercising rehab. I've since had a stroke & can't now.

Very few times have I seen such a blatantly deliberate attempt to misrepresent another poster's words. It doesn't work, I should add.

I reckon OP has posted the most innocuous thing they can think of to see if it will start a fight. 😆

Mission accomplished 🤣

You have gravity helping you when you're lying down. Against the wall, you don't.

I cannot picture what you mean at all

Not sure that would be enough to make a difference. I think it's more likely to do with the alignment of my body.

Ouch!

I seem to be getting older.

Yes please