Question:
two-fold shoulder injury
First, I was dirt jumping my BMX bicycle, and overshot my jump. Ditched the bike and tried to land on my feet. I ended up on my left shoulder and my head. My head was fine (being nothing enclosed to worry about), but my shoulder got hurt pretty bad. I am a carpenter by trade, and I tote plywood and pick it up over my head all day. The following year my shoulder would pop, causing incredible pain, but only when it would pop (from raising something heavy over my head, not just from rotating my arm. I was sitting around one day, and I managed to stretch/dislocate? my shoulder. It popped, hurt worse than it ever had, but then when the pain subsided it ceased hurting. Then I was playing football, caught a pass, and somebody took my feet from beneath me and I landed back on my shoulder and I knew I had messed it up. I went to the doctor, and he said that it could be out of place by millimeters and be causing that pain. This last incident was two years ago. It hurts worse than it ever had, my collar bone pokes out from my shoulder about a quarter inch more thanthe other. The doctors say nothing is broken, but every time I go for something else they ask about what happened. It feels like a similar injury, but no stretches have worked. It's killing me, I just need an opinion, or an idea of what I can do on my own, because I have no money to give a doctor. They already charged me 1200 dollars just to tell me that there was something wrong with my shoulder. My hip is messed up to, but that is another story. Help me.
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Asked by volva960 - 1 answer - 2 years 44 weeks ago
i'm 15, and i have that same problem. i have a packet of shoulder exercises that took me my whole softball season to heal. but now i'm fine. every Once in a while it will pop.
grab a weight- 1 LB.
[trust me it may be light but it works]
and have your index and thumb facing down like a sideways fist
and extend your hurt shoulder/arm about 45 degrees from your
center of your sternum. and life your arm up and down for 10 reps.
find a corner and stand about 1-2 feet away from the wall
press your elbows and shaft of your arms and against the wall
squeezing your shoulders together in your back
then you can find a therapy band and tie it to a doorknob
and stand next to it keeping your arm locked and pulling
i hope this helps. my athletic helped me with all of this when i had problems, so i hope that i pass it to you the same way. :)
Submitted 2 years 44 weeks ago by alyb