Hi Prophylaxis,
thanks for offering your advice on here - very kind of you.
Just a couple of questions:
1. What do you think about sitting on a fitball when doing desk work to improve posture - is it worth it? or a waste of time?
2.
Body Chart: Right shoulder (I'm a left hander so non-dominant)
Age: 28
Mechanism of injury: While just doing a swimming freestyle I aggravated my right shoulder. It was a sudden pain, but it subsided pretty quickly immediately after and I didn't really think too much of it until the pain continued to persist in the days after from time to time with certain movements. If I had to pinpoint the time in the freestyle swimming stroke it happened, it would be as my arm was going past my right ear.
Aggravating factors: I'm able to do overhead presses and bench press without too much issue, and in fact I'm benching more than I have ever done.
But I'm definitely more conscious of it when I'm doing reverse grip chin ups (I'm still able to do 2-3 but it just doesn't 'feel right')
I'm also more conscious of it (initially) when I'm gripping the barbell for squats (after a few warm up sets it goes away though)
I can re-create/exacerbate the pain when I get to the horizontal on abducting my arm and then going above the horizontal and I adduct (or is it still abduct?) the arm towards me overhead.
Easing factors: The pain is non-existant at rest and it doesn't bother me in any ADLs except overhead activities.
It appears to be getting better, but very very slowly.
My questions:
1. what do you think I have strained with that kind of freestyle motion?
2. In the future, what kind of exercises should I do to strengthen the shoulder? currently, I do squats, deadlifts, bench presses, chin ups, overhead presses, bent over rows, farmers walks and I'm thinking of doing some bar dips as well
thanks for offering your advice on here - very kind of you.
Just a couple of questions:
1. What do you think about sitting on a fitball when doing desk work to improve posture - is it worth it? or a waste of time?
2.
Body Chart: Right shoulder (I'm a left hander so non-dominant)
Age: 28
Mechanism of injury: While just doing a swimming freestyle I aggravated my right shoulder. It was a sudden pain, but it subsided pretty quickly immediately after and I didn't really think too much of it until the pain continued to persist in the days after from time to time with certain movements. If I had to pinpoint the time in the freestyle swimming stroke it happened, it would be as my arm was going past my right ear.
Aggravating factors: I'm able to do overhead presses and bench press without too much issue, and in fact I'm benching more than I have ever done.
But I'm definitely more conscious of it when I'm doing reverse grip chin ups (I'm still able to do 2-3 but it just doesn't 'feel right')
I'm also more conscious of it (initially) when I'm gripping the barbell for squats (after a few warm up sets it goes away though)
I can re-create/exacerbate the pain when I get to the horizontal on abducting my arm and then going above the horizontal and I adduct (or is it still abduct?) the arm towards me overhead.
Easing factors: The pain is non-existant at rest and it doesn't bother me in any ADLs except overhead activities.
It appears to be getting better, but very very slowly.
My questions:
1. what do you think I have strained with that kind of freestyle motion?
2. In the future, what kind of exercises should I do to strengthen the shoulder? currently, I do squats, deadlifts, bench presses, chin ups, overhead presses, bent over rows, farmers walks and I'm thinking of doing some bar dips as well