Ok...Here's the short verison of the lead up to my question. I dislocated, well suplexed (popped out but popped in on it's own), my shoulder about a month ago when I was doing butterfly (I promise my form has improved since then:D ). I took a week off from swimming, work and everything and my shoulder was for the most part healed, it only bothers me every once in a while..mostlyat work. But today when I was swimming, it kinda started grinding and hurting when I started my recovery on all my strokes. Any ideas about what to do? Drills to make it stronger or anything would be good. When I do dryland I spend some time focusing on making it stronger...benchpress and such, so it should be getting stronger, so I was surprised when it hurt today. Maybe it's the changing weather;). Im gonna let it rest for a day or two and ice it regularly, but when I get back into the pool it would be nice to not have this problem again. Thanx for your help!!
~Kyra
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Kyra, I think you should take that kind of thing really seriously and consult a doctor, 'cause we all sometimes procrastinate with "minor" pains and then end up with smth. major that needs a surgical inteference.And I suggest you do not work out before you see what a doctor says.It might be still not too bad and you don't want to make it worse.We do stupid things when young and try to exceed our physical performance regardless of what is up.I learnt it by my experience: I used to powerlift for 5 years and rushed into big weights once after a little break from lifting and strained my shoulder ver bad(no dislocation fortunately).It hurt for quite a while.BUt I do believe that you can make it stronger by bench-presses and stuff.I kept excersizing with smaller weights and higher reps and eventually healed my shoulder.I never had any trouble with it since(about 3 years now).One tip though:when you bench-press, do it slowly, with good technique, lowering the bar down to your nip area :-))), DO NOT JERK THE WEIGHT or you'll hurt the shoulder even more and do not do heavy weights.Hope your shoulder problem is something you won't even think about very soon ...
Good luck
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Kyra, I think you should take that kind of thing really seriously and consult a doctor, 'cause we all sometimes procrastinate with "minor" pains and then end up with smth. major that needs a surgical inteference.And I suggest you do not work out before you see what a doctor says.It might be still not too bad and you don't want to make it worse.We do stupid things when young and try to exceed our physical performance regardless of what is up.I learnt it by my experience: I used to powerlift for 5 years and rushed into big weights once after a little break from lifting and strained my shoulder ver bad(no dislocation fortunately).It hurt for quite a while.BUt I do believe that you can make it stronger by bench-presses and stuff.I kept excersizing with smaller weights and higher reps and eventually healed my shoulder.I never had any trouble with it since(about 3 years now).One tip though:when you bench-press, do it slowly, with good technique, lowering the bar down to your nip area :-))), DO NOT JERK THE WEIGHT or you'll hurt the shoulder even more and do not do heavy weights.Hope your shoulder problem is something you won't even think about very soon ...
Good luck
