It got me thinking that it's funny how any kind of shoulder pain really worries us as swimmers. I get little nagging aches and pains all the time and don't get too concerned, but as soon as my shoulder hurts I worry. I'm sure breaststrokers feel the same way about any knee pain.
Excellent observation, Kirk. Stuff like lower back pain, the sensation of having a lost sewing needle driven into the bone of my heal, fleeting agonies in the mid brain that makes one wonder if a jagged wire has somehow wandered in there: I get MUCH worse pains quite frequently, as well, but usually manage to dismiss them.
But if my shoulder is experiencing even a little twinge, it's as if my entire consciousness gets sucked into monitoring the progress of whatever inflamed and malformed tissues I imagine lurk therein--hoping against hope that I will find my way back to health, which is in this case defined as "not noticing my 'sore' shoulder anymore"--an impossible hope, of course, when every iota of failing brain power is focused on monitoring precisely that body part!
I agree!! I can obsess about my shoulder 24/7. But I've run with multiple stress fractures and ignored tendonitis in my foot for 6 months with barely a worry.
Jim, what is the treatment for scapular winging? What if the nerve doesn't "kick in"? Pain? You seem to be swimming very well despite it!
It got me thinking that it's funny how any kind of shoulder pain really worries us as swimmers. I get little nagging aches and pains all the time and don't get too concerned, but as soon as my shoulder hurts I worry. I'm sure breaststrokers feel the same way about any knee pain.
Excellent observation, Kirk. Stuff like lower back pain, the sensation of having a lost sewing needle driven into the bone of my heal, fleeting agonies in the mid brain that makes one wonder if a jagged wire has somehow wandered in there: I get MUCH worse pains quite frequently, as well, but usually manage to dismiss them.
But if my shoulder is experiencing even a little twinge, it's as if my entire consciousness gets sucked into monitoring the progress of whatever inflamed and malformed tissues I imagine lurk therein--hoping against hope that I will find my way back to health, which is in this case defined as "not noticing my 'sore' shoulder anymore"--an impossible hope, of course, when every iota of failing brain power is focused on monitoring precisely that body part!
I agree!! I can obsess about my shoulder 24/7. But I've run with multiple stress fractures and ignored tendonitis in my foot for 6 months with barely a worry.
Jim, what is the treatment for scapular winging? What if the nerve doesn't "kick in"? Pain? You seem to be swimming very well despite it!
