I'm love the IM and Butterfly but about 2 years ago I dislocated my right shoulder and ever since then it won't stabilze, it keeps slipping slightly out of place when I swim (which kinda really hurts ;) ) and I was wondering if any of you could recommend some drills and that I could do to rebuild the muscles around it to stop that.
Thanx
Oh yeah and I've already done PT but no one has really been able to help.
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well you see my shoulder has always been odd, I could dislocate it on command and it would never hurt. However during a swim meet on the first lap of my 200 IM it dislocated and came back in midstroke, which had never happened before. I didn't tear any ligaments, I just streached them out. So I was told by my doc to keep it in a sling until I saw an orthopedist a month later. He told me that I had tendonitis and gave me cortizone injection. This did make it so that my shoulder could move without pain and I could do some PT to get regular motion back, but I still have trouble swimming. So here I am 2 years later, I've gone through 2 injections of cortizone, 3 months of PT, and the only thing that makes it so that I can swim without major pain is my bi-monthly trip to my chiropractor (who also helps me with my lower back pain). I'm only 18, I should be able to swim normally again, but no one has been able to help me swim like I used to.
well you see my shoulder has always been odd, I could dislocate it on command and it would never hurt. However during a swim meet on the first lap of my 200 IM it dislocated and came back in midstroke, which had never happened before. I didn't tear any ligaments, I just streached them out. So I was told by my doc to keep it in a sling until I saw an orthopedist a month later. He told me that I had tendonitis and gave me cortizone injection. This did make it so that my shoulder could move without pain and I could do some PT to get regular motion back, but I still have trouble swimming. So here I am 2 years later, I've gone through 2 injections of cortizone, 3 months of PT, and the only thing that makes it so that I can swim without major pain is my bi-monthly trip to my chiropractor (who also helps me with my lower back pain). I'm only 18, I should be able to swim normally again, but no one has been able to help me swim like I used to.
