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
Been there..done that! I had the same shoulder problem! Don't ignore it. You may end up having to have surgery and a painful , long rehab like I did! You need to STOP doing bench presses...period. They will not help for your problem. It is called subluxation of the shoulder and the only way to help it is rotator cuff exercises. I would definitely go see a doctor to make sure this is indeed what is going on. If so, your doctor will probably send you to physical therapy. Don't ignore this problem. Everytime your shoulder pops in and out you are damaging the soft tissue around your shoulder and stretching out your cartillage and ligaments that help hold your shoulder together. I kept ignoring mine til everything was too stretched out for the rotator cuff exercises to help. I ended up having to have surgery, painful rehab and miss almost a year of swimming! Nip this in the bud! Sorry to get preachy on you but I just don't want you to go through what I did!
Been there..done that! I had the same shoulder problem! Don't ignore it. You may end up having to have surgery and a painful , long rehab like I did! You need to STOP doing bench presses...period. They will not help for your problem. It is called subluxation of the shoulder and the only way to help it is rotator cuff exercises. I would definitely go see a doctor to make sure this is indeed what is going on. If so, your doctor will probably send you to physical therapy. Don't ignore this problem. Everytime your shoulder pops in and out you are damaging the soft tissue around your shoulder and stretching out your cartillage and ligaments that help hold your shoulder together. I kept ignoring mine til everything was too stretched out for the rotator cuff exercises to help. I ended up having to have surgery, painful rehab and miss almost a year of swimming! Nip this in the bud! Sorry to get preachy on you but I just don't want you to go through what I did!
