For the past couple of months, my shoulder has been feeling "loose" or instable. I have some moderate pain and mostly the very odd feeling that it just is about to fall out of its socket. It usually feels okay while swimming but very bad afterwards. I've taken the past week off from swimming in the hopes that things would feel better, but no dice. I do have a call in to my doctor, but I've done some Googling around and it seems like it might be multi-directional instability of the shoulder. Does anyone have any experience with this? I am physically unable to participate in most other cardio (running, step aerobics, anything with any level of impact) so the idea of not being able to swim is very depressing.
Definitely see the doctor, but it sounds like if it isn't hurting during swimming, only after, that it might be an imbalance of some kind. My shoulders were great for freestyle, but since the majority of my cardio was running for so long I didn't have a lot of stability in the muscles around the ones I used primarily for freestyle... so any little exertion outside my normal range of motion was "dangerous." Swimming the other strokes has helped and doing some stability exercises has helped too. Good luck.
Definitely see the doctor, but it sounds like if it isn't hurting during swimming, only after, that it might be an imbalance of some kind. My shoulders were great for freestyle, but since the majority of my cardio was running for so long I didn't have a lot of stability in the muscles around the ones I used primarily for freestyle... so any little exertion outside my normal range of motion was "dangerous." Swimming the other strokes has helped and doing some stability exercises has helped too. Good luck.
