I am experiencing some mild shoulder pain on the front of my right front shoulder. It hurts if I press on it with some firmness. I feel it when I swim but it's not overwhelming.
I'm laying off the weights in the gym until this feels better. I haven't done anything in the gym since Wednesday last week so I don't think this is recent. I swam on Friday but it didn't start bothering me until late Saturday.
Any suggestions?
The bare minimum:
1. rotator cuff muscles with stretch cords or 1 or 2 lb weights. if you can only do one exercise, it should be external rotation
2. our coach says not to do any weight lifting that requires weights going over the head--swimming exercises these muscles enough as it is
3. ice after practice
4. fins or zoomers to "de-weight" your shoulders
5. avoid excessive ibuprofen and other NSAIDs (it's called tendinitis but it's really tendonopathy--there is no inflammation going on here, and drugs/cortisone injections designed to reduce inflammation most likely weaken the tissues, mask the pain, and retard healing)
6. pinkies enter water first, not the thumbs
7. don't sleep on your shoulders! and cut out unnecessary and overly provocative activities, like volleyball spking, tennis serving, and being hung by your thumbs in an S & M dungeon.
8. try to keep hysteria in check: the vast majority of these shoulder issues heal on their own if given time to settle down
The bare minimum:
1. rotator cuff muscles with stretch cords or 1 or 2 lb weights. if you can only do one exercise, it should be external rotation
2. our coach says not to do any weight lifting that requires weights going over the head--swimming exercises these muscles enough as it is
3. ice after practice
4. fins or zoomers to "de-weight" your shoulders
5. avoid excessive ibuprofen and other NSAIDs (it's called tendinitis but it's really tendonopathy--there is no inflammation going on here, and drugs/cortisone injections designed to reduce inflammation most likely weaken the tissues, mask the pain, and retard healing)
6. pinkies enter water first, not the thumbs
7. don't sleep on your shoulders! and cut out unnecessary and overly provocative activities, like volleyball spking, tennis serving, and being hung by your thumbs in an S & M dungeon.
8. try to keep hysteria in check: the vast majority of these shoulder issues heal on their own if given time to settle down
