Many of you already know that I have been dealing with a shoulder injury for the last month. It gets better and then it gets worse. The worse seems to come after I do something foolish like pulling myself out of the pool without the ladder or picking up my youngest daughter with extended arms. My question is this, is exercise that causes me no pain okay for the recovery of my shoulder; ie swimming? I ask this because I have been swimming more regularly now and my shoulder seems to feel better afterwards, except for last night when I pulled myself out of the pool. Immediately I felt the strain/pain and knew I just set myself back again. It seems like I will never get past this injury.
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I have had an MRI and seen an ortho. He told me that I had a rotator cuff strain and that light exercise that was not painful is okay, just take it easy. I just want to make certain that my relapses of pain are due to stupid mistakes and not to my painless exercises. I have not altered my stroke at all to avoid pain but I do notice that the muscles in the back portion of my shoulder are sore after I swim. Remember that I took about 2 1/2 weeks off from any upper body exercise. I do avoid the fly by the way. I never really learned it that well and I can only imagine that it will only make my shoulder problems worse.
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I have had an MRI and seen an ortho. He told me that I had a rotator cuff strain and that light exercise that was not painful is okay, just take it easy. I just want to make certain that my relapses of pain are due to stupid mistakes and not to my painless exercises. I have not altered my stroke at all to avoid pain but I do notice that the muscles in the back portion of my shoulder are sore after I swim. Remember that I took about 2 1/2 weeks off from any upper body exercise. I do avoid the fly by the way. I never really learned it that well and I can only imagine that it will only make my shoulder problems worse.
