I'm too lazy to look up the archive on this one. Sorry. I was wondering. How many of you people have had shoulder surgery? I mean. Most of us have swum (or is it swam) many miles. What do you contribute your pain too? I have not swum long distances for quite some time. Just wondering what I should watch out for as I begin to balance my stones.
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Morgan - How is your shoulder now?
My shoulders are more or less still very good. I did have a lot of pain last year, but it wasn't the same type of pain I had had originally--this pain was more associated with knots that I had that developed all along my scapula and were pulling on my rotator cuff--IDK....thats what they tell me.
I actually thought I had a knot in May of my freshman year of college, in that same region that my PT was going to try to work on but after first working on it-he actually ended up referring me for scans because he thought it might be a tumor...thankfully it wasn't.
Last year I had acupuncture 1-2 times every 2 weeks and that really helped--he broke up the knots and used the needles to release pressure along my shoulder and upper back. I will probably do that again this year and see a chiropractor on a regular basis because I was told that I might have some of my shoulder pain because of misalignments in my back which have my shoulders a little lopsided which would cause me to over pull with the one shoulder.
But I still have about 95% of the proper Range of motion--and that is such a relief having come from having less than 50% before the surgeries...like I said if it hadn't been for the surgeries I wasn't going to be able to swim on a collegiate team.
Morgan - How is your shoulder now?
My shoulders are more or less still very good. I did have a lot of pain last year, but it wasn't the same type of pain I had had originally--this pain was more associated with knots that I had that developed all along my scapula and were pulling on my rotator cuff--IDK....thats what they tell me.
I actually thought I had a knot in May of my freshman year of college, in that same region that my PT was going to try to work on but after first working on it-he actually ended up referring me for scans because he thought it might be a tumor...thankfully it wasn't.
Last year I had acupuncture 1-2 times every 2 weeks and that really helped--he broke up the knots and used the needles to release pressure along my shoulder and upper back. I will probably do that again this year and see a chiropractor on a regular basis because I was told that I might have some of my shoulder pain because of misalignments in my back which have my shoulders a little lopsided which would cause me to over pull with the one shoulder.
But I still have about 95% of the proper Range of motion--and that is such a relief having come from having less than 50% before the surgeries...like I said if it hadn't been for the surgeries I wasn't going to be able to swim on a collegiate team.
