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.
Agree about getting rid of the kick board. Just wanted to say that for many years now I have not used a board with kicking, doing the dolphin, breaststroke, and flutter kicking on my back, and more recently I am also kicking on my front side with the snorkel. The fins are useful too for kicking while resting the arms, single arm swimming and/or combining kicking-sculling-drills. I wish everyone the best possible outcome with the shoulder issues towards pain free enjoyable swimming.
Agree about getting rid of the kick board. Just wanted to say that for many years now I have not used a board with kicking, doing the dolphin, breaststroke, and flutter kicking on my back, and more recently I am also kicking on my front side with the snorkel. The fins are useful too for kicking while resting the arms, single arm swimming and/or combining kicking-sculling-drills. I wish everyone the best possible outcome with the shoulder issues towards pain free enjoyable swimming.
