I swam Wednesday night, and didn't notice anything wrong. Yesterday I woke up and don't remember noticing anything, then after I was at work awhile I noticed that I had difficulty putting on my jacket. It hurts my left shoulder. In the past, all my shoulder pain was a bursitis (spelling?) issue, and this is very different. Basically it is stiff/tender to lift from my side or to reach behind or forware. The pain seems to be at the top of my shoulder and straight down the arm. I know there are lots of folks with shoulder issues, so I'm wondering how I figure out what I've done. Thanks.
I tried swimming last night and realized that this shoulder/arm thing is weirder than I originally thought. It hurts during the recovery on freestyle, the initial off the wall underwater pull on breaststroke, and the early part of the pull during backstroke. So other than the breaststroke, it is when the arm is in the “chicken wing” position. That probably doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anyway I found a reference to about 15 threads I’m supposed to read to fill my time since I won’t be doing a lot of swimming.
I'm sorry. Not sure what that is... Maybe something in the labrum? It's so hard to tell because you can feel pain in x place, but it could be referred pain due to an injury in y place.
Have you seen an orthopod yet? Better go soon! Lots of freestyle always bugs me, but, since you're a distance gal, that's a problem. At least you can still keep running for that marathon!
If you go to the whining and complaining thread that TheGoodSmith started, I left a bunch of shoulder threads for Swim4Me. Maybe you already found them?
I tried swimming last night and realized that this shoulder/arm thing is weirder than I originally thought. It hurts during the recovery on freestyle, the initial off the wall underwater pull on breaststroke, and the early part of the pull during backstroke. So other than the breaststroke, it is when the arm is in the “chicken wing” position. That probably doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anyway I found a reference to about 15 threads I’m supposed to read to fill my time since I won’t be doing a lot of swimming.
I'm sorry. Not sure what that is... Maybe something in the labrum? It's so hard to tell because you can feel pain in x place, but it could be referred pain due to an injury in y place.
Have you seen an orthopod yet? Better go soon! Lots of freestyle always bugs me, but, since you're a distance gal, that's a problem. At least you can still keep running for that marathon!
If you go to the whining and complaining thread that TheGoodSmith started, I left a bunch of shoulder threads for Swim4Me. Maybe you already found them?
