[QUOTE=IronFist;1158100]How’s your injury coming? You said you were like 50% back in October.[/QUOTE]
well i kind of aggrivated/reinjured it, but ive stopped being stupid…:rolleyes: im about where you are right now 80ish%, just doing rehabilitation exercises and stretching. this is honestly the first injury ive had where i cant just work around it. it seems like when ever i try train, i just do something in the wrong range of motion and mess it up..
im going to lay low and keep working at it until i feel confident i wont worsen
This is a good reminder for me to keep up with the prehab exercises. Without the constant nagging pain it is easy to forget.
I still have some pretty drastic neuro-muscular adaptations to deal with.
I still make really “guarded” movements anytime I raise the affected arm throughout the ROM that would trigger the impingement. In fact I think this maladjustment prolonged the inflammation.
I have to do a lot of work really watching my shoulders and focusing on a relaxed, even and natural range of motion. Even then I catch myself tensing up in anticipation of the “pop”.
[QUOTE=Oso;1158111]fwiw, i had the same issue with doing squats, back or front. some stretching helped…but not much.[/QUOTE]
Rotator cuff impingement tends to make the position of “hands up” a bit painful and when you get under the bar to do a back squat it puts the shoulder in that angle.
Impingement syndrome (Rotator cuff tendinitis, Bursitis).
[QUOTE=Brule;1158130]WTF is wrong with you guys? If you just stuck with doing just kung fu, non of this would have ever happened. MMA knuckleheads…:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Know how I hurt it the first time?
Kung fuing the Heavy bag !!
LOL !
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1158123]Rotator cuff impingement tends to make the position of “hands up” a bit painful and when you get under the bar to do a back squat it puts the shoulder in that angle.
Impingement syndrome (Rotator cuff tendinitis, Bursitis).[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Neeros;1158109]If I were you I would stop weight lifting and focus more on holistic exercises like the 8 piece brocade, etc and if possible see a (good) TCM doctor.
Western medicine may provide much conflicting advice.
Eastern philosophy provides simple, and direct advice, all ailments are caused by yin yang disharmony, restore the harmony and you are healed. :D[/QUOTE]
omfg…dude, seriously? I don’t want to come off like i’m targeting you…but…****…you’ve already admitted you are young with minimal experience. just keep reading for a couple of years. and, not just here, i’m not trying to claim that this is the be-all, end-all for info.
[QUOTE=Oso;1158179]omfg…dude, seriously? I don’t want to come off like i’m targeting you…but…****…you’ve already admitted you are young with minimal experience. just keep reading for a couple of years. and, not just here, i’m not trying to claim that this is the be-all, end-all for info.[/QUOTE]
In his defense, most kung fu people go through an “Eastern medicine has all the answers” phase when they first become interested in kung fu, and the idea of herbal formulas and special exercises that can heal injuries in less than 24 hours is pretty alluring. You know, stuff that western medicine won’t accept or admit because it’s too focused on “treating the symptoms” with expensive drugs to make the drug companies rich.
[QUOTE=Neeros;1158109]If I were you I would stop weight lifting and focus more on holistic exercises like the 8 piece brocade, etc and if possible see a (good) TCM doctor.
Western medicine may provide much conflicting advice.
Eastern philosophy provides simple, and direct advice, all ailments are caused by yin yang disharmony, restore the harmony and you are healed. :D[/QUOTE]
haven’t been around in a while;
I see that the rosy-colored glasses have been passed off to the latest patsy…
btw, impingement that doesn’t go away strongly suggests that the primary issue is not at the shoulder itself: if there is restriction / dysfunction somewhere else (usually more proximally, e.g. - thoracic spine, rib cage, hips, sacroiliac, etc.), the shoulder will have to bear the brunt of the lack of mobility / strength of the more proximal structure; meaning you can do NSAIDs, rehab, acupuncture, tree-hugging to your heart’s content, and it’s not going to get better until you clear the other stuff; even if not, at the very least, you need to clear the sub-scapularis, latissimus and quadratus lumborum muscles, and get them to be bilaterally balanced with normal tone, as they all will adversely impact shoulder when they are screwed up;
in that sort of situation, typically unless you find someone who knows how to think globally and synergisticaly, your progress will be limited;
I’ve had both shoulders sort-of rebuilt. Acromioplasty on both, due to (at times) acute pain from bad lifting habits. The first one took about a year to come 100%. The second one is 4 months and counting. On the plus side, now that I’m the $6,000,000 man, I can finally try the Olympic lifts so I’ve finally moved away from powerlifting and am teaching myself C&J. I started lifting about 8 weeks after surgery.
Like you iron, I could barely do squats last year. It got bad until there was a point where I was doing a particular sport and couldn’t lift my arms above shoulder height afterwards.
