Last january I was forced to takes 2 weeks off from the pool due to some upper back/neck pain. A few changes like chest stretching and ergonomics at work seemed to resolve the problem. Now, I have a muscle tighness to a point that it actually pulls my shoulders toward my ears with a pain that radiates to my elbows. I can not swim at all right now. It's hard to determine what caused it, maybe my new medicine ball workout...who knows.
Anyway, Has anyone gone through this? What did you do to get rid of it? I'm headed to get a shot of butorphanol so i can at least concentrate on something rather than pain. The shot sucks because it kills todays run workouts. I've read a lot of the previus posts and didn't see much help. :cane:
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Timely post (for me, at least). I woke up this morning with an awful muscle spasm and knot in my mid-back, right side. Normally, I'd take a day out of the pool or at least take it really easy in workout, combined with advil, light stretching, hot showers, etc.
Problem is, the meet I've been training months for is this and next weekend. I'm swimming the mile this saturday, and several events over three days the following weekend. I don't want to lose any conditioning, but I certainly don't want to injure myself further.
I'm wondering if I'm better off:
a) resting + icing/heating tonight, no swim
b) light swim tonight to stay loose
c) swim full workout tonight to maintain conditioning, on track with pre-meet speed/pacework, provided the pain is manageable
Has anyone swam through a really tight back and lived to tell about it?
Timely post (for me, at least). I woke up this morning with an awful muscle spasm and knot in my mid-back, right side. Normally, I'd take a day out of the pool or at least take it really easy in workout, combined with advil, light stretching, hot showers, etc.
Problem is, the meet I've been training months for is this and next weekend. I'm swimming the mile this saturday, and several events over three days the following weekend. I don't want to lose any conditioning, but I certainly don't want to injure myself further.
I'm wondering if I'm better off:
a) resting + icing/heating tonight, no swim
b) light swim tonight to stay loose
c) swim full workout tonight to maintain conditioning, on track with pre-meet speed/pacework, provided the pain is manageable
Has anyone swam through a really tight back and lived to tell about it?
