Hi, Everyone,
I did a three-mile race yesterday and felt fine for several hours afterwards. Then, I woke up from a nap feeling intense pain in my shoulder. My chiropractor says it's a displacement of my bicep tendon, complete with inflammation. Has anyone had any experience with this? It hurts like crazy and I very much hope it'll disappear before my mile-and-a-half swim this Sunday.
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...I watched the link that GMM posted. I do not like how she does the exercise, at least for rotator cuff. This is off topic for Heart's original post, except that it is shoulder injury related....
I agree. Just to say that I posted it "as example". This kind of drills are very good during the normal training, not during the "pain" because is too late for it. Is necessary wait until the pain is over and then re-start with a new training protocol, with these extra drills
Try a search including shoulder, bicep, injury, etc and see what pops up.
But from non-medical anecdotical evidence, various activities either remedied, prevented, or eased swimming related shoulder pain for me. Those things are (with no significance to order):
1) FORM
2) Weight lifting
3) Incorporate a stretching program
4) Warm up prior to performing anything vigorous
And the things that made it worst were:
1) bad form
2) certain weight lifting exercises
3) certain stretching movements, approaches, or when (i.e., morning:eek:)
4) Swimming too much in volume in one set :nono:
I think if you are having pain,back off alittle. You need to work with an MD who can send you to PT for an eval. I think we spend our lives keep our shoulders healthy. Pain is a warning. I find when I have pain and keep swimming my technique falls apart and I am risk to causing more damage to my shoulder. Stop with pain! Work with a coach,athletic trainer. Goodluck
