Patrick Donnelly
09-24-2008, 08:52 AM
Recently, I've been doing a lot of jerks and shoulder stands (working up to rings) with decent results in both. However, it caused me to develop some minor shoulder pains which I noticed on the landing phase of the jerk, and also during the release of headstands on the floor (only practiced those ones, so I simply may have been using bad technique). It wasn't anything stretching and warm-up sets wouldn't alleviate.
Yesterday morning (the day after a rest day), I woke up with extreme pain in my right shoulder throughout much of the range of motion. It's no better today. I'm fairly certain that I slept on it funny and damaged it. Yesterday evening, I tried to do some soft-tissue massaging with a tennis ball; it was a difficult position, but I got it. Unfortunately, it didn't help at all (seriously, not at all).
Any hints on what the pain may be and how to alleviate it? (I know, any advice I get here is worth what I pay for it and cannot be considered professional. I am thinking about seeing a doctor if this continues through tomorrow evening though.)
The pain is:
underneath the clavicle and above the humerus (the bursae?) when I:
--- raise my arm in any direction more than 15* above the horizontal plane of the shoulders
--- depress the right scapula/shoulder
--- either flex or internally rotate the left shoulder (still hurts the right)
along and underneath the medial side of the scapula when I:
--- raise the arm to 15* underneath the horizontal plane of the shoulders or higher (meaning going to 15+ adds the pain in the clavicle to it), while either crossing over the front of the torso or back behind the line of the body
--- retract my right scapula
along and underneath the lateral side of the scapula when I:
--- raise the arm to 15* underneath the horizontal plane of the shoulders or higher (meaning going to 15+ adds the pain in the clavicle to it), while infront and to the side of the body (as I move further back to sticking out sideways, the pain slowly shifts to the medial side)
Yeah, so, it hurts.
Yesterday morning (the day after a rest day), I woke up with extreme pain in my right shoulder throughout much of the range of motion. It's no better today. I'm fairly certain that I slept on it funny and damaged it. Yesterday evening, I tried to do some soft-tissue massaging with a tennis ball; it was a difficult position, but I got it. Unfortunately, it didn't help at all (seriously, not at all).
Any hints on what the pain may be and how to alleviate it? (I know, any advice I get here is worth what I pay for it and cannot be considered professional. I am thinking about seeing a doctor if this continues through tomorrow evening though.)
The pain is:
underneath the clavicle and above the humerus (the bursae?) when I:
--- raise my arm in any direction more than 15* above the horizontal plane of the shoulders
--- depress the right scapula/shoulder
--- either flex or internally rotate the left shoulder (still hurts the right)
along and underneath the medial side of the scapula when I:
--- raise the arm to 15* underneath the horizontal plane of the shoulders or higher (meaning going to 15+ adds the pain in the clavicle to it), while either crossing over the front of the torso or back behind the line of the body
--- retract my right scapula
along and underneath the lateral side of the scapula when I:
--- raise the arm to 15* underneath the horizontal plane of the shoulders or higher (meaning going to 15+ adds the pain in the clavicle to it), while infront and to the side of the body (as I move further back to sticking out sideways, the pain slowly shifts to the medial side)
Yeah, so, it hurts.