| Over thirty percent of us are going to injure a shoulder | | | | was sent for an MRI scan which showed that I had |
| at some point in their lives. I'm helping someone out by | | | | shoulder impingement. I was offered an operation and |
| taking their share for them having succeeded in injuring | | | | being in the UK the date was set for three months |
| both my shoulders in the last few years. Don't worry I | | | | away. |
| know it doesn't work like that. | | | | Having already suffered shoulder pain for about ten |
| The first time, my shoulder healed on its own after I | | | | weeks by now, I was impatient for a cure so started |
| tore the cartilage cup that makes up the socket of the | | | | researching the injury on line. Google shoulder pain and |
| ball and socket joint. Don't do it, it you get severe | | | | you come up with a mass of information amongst |
| shoulder pain.. I was offered an operation to staple the | | | | which was information on shoulder specific physio |
| cartilage to speed up the healing process but declined | | | | therapy exercises. |
| because it coincided with the due date for our | | | | This was an option that had not really been discussed |
| daughter. By the time I got round to thinking about it | | | | with me in terms of a potential cure. I had had some |
| again the shoulder had healed on its own. | | | | physio and acupuncture to help with the pain but that |
| A few months ago I tore a muscle in my rotator cuff. | | | | was all. With nothing to lose I started exercising my |
| In case you're new to this, the rotator cuff is the name | | | | shoulder, very carefully at first with small movements |
| given to a group of four muscles that hold the shoulder | | | | and gradually building things back up. At the same time |
| together and move it. They run under and over each | | | | I was learning more about my injury to try and avoid |
| other, as well as under and over the bones of the | | | | damaging the muscle again. I have progressed until ten |
| shoulder and back. Because these muscles are so | | | | weeks on I have full movement and am pain free. I |
| close together any injury can cause shoulder pain. | | | | have escaped the knife again as I have postponed my |
| I tore a tendon on my supraspinatus muscle. The tear | | | | operation and at the moment feel confident that I will |
| resulted in inflammation and as the tendon became | | | | be able to cancel it altogether. |
| swollen it started to catch on my collar bone because | | | | So if you are experiencing shoulder pain. Don't despair. |
| the gap that it normally ran through was now too small. | | | | A lot of shoulder pain can be eradicated with exercise. |
| I had shoulder pain, which started in the shoulder and | | | | Take the anti inflammatory tablets, try steroids but get |
| gradually became worse and worse until my left arm | | | | your shoulder moving again as soon as you can and |
| was as good as useless. | | | | gradually build it back up to full strength.. Five months |
| The doctor treated it with steroids and anti | | | | ago I had so much shoulder pain that I was nearly in |
| inflammatory drugs. I was maxed out on Ibuprofen but | | | | tears. Now I feel as good as new and am back to |
| although the pain reduced it never went away. So I | | | | playing golf. |