My minor rotator cuff injury diagnosis and prognosis - in case of any interest

[murrelld]

Maybe not the most interesting thing in the world, but:

- had pain for a few weeks I was pretty sure was rotator cuff-related. Dropped shoulder and chest exercises and took anti-infs and it would feel better after a couple of days but kept hurting again after any upper body day, e.g., biceps, triceps, back.

- went to chiropractor. he did about 30 muscle/movement tests and determined I strained my teres major, supraspinatus, and one part of my posterior delt.

- he adjusted, electrified, massaged the area and various related areas, and got it all up and running again. BUT it's only going to stay that way if I do no upper body exercises at all for at least a month. I'm seeing him again in 2 weeks to get the whole adjustment gamut done again, then again in another 2 weeks for the same. At that point, assuming it feels good (which I'm sure it will), I'll try some very gentle upper body stuff and see if it re-strains anything. Hopefully it won't, and I'll be able to take it from there -- lightly restarting biceps, triceps and back, and probably not doing shoulders per se until I've done rotator cuff exercises for a month or so.

Big-time bummer, but hopefully it'll be fine within 2-3 months.

-Dave

[ccs77]

What adjustments did he make? Did you see a chiropractor?

[murrelld]

What adjustments did he make? Did you see a chiropractor?

yeah, if you look at my post, items 2 and 3 deal with that. I don't know chiropractic lingo, but he did a bunch of adjustments to the area as well as some (apparently) related areas elsewhere on my trunk.

[ccs77]

I go see my Chiro next week to see if he can help with my shoulder.

[bigred253]

hey what kind of pain were you feeling in your shoulder? I have an injury to what I think is my teres minor and it just feels like a pinch back there and shoulder instability when i pull up into throwing position or across body arm extension. dont know if i can just rest then pt it or its going to need surgery rehab and i just lost my medical last month and cant afford to get it looked at.

[braindx]

You can do self massage and it will help.

Fish oil for anti-inflam.

[bigred253]

yeah im doing fish oil.. was on it for awhile actually and had stopped so i still had some leftover and started taking it again the other day when i realized something was def off in my shoulder.

I am also taking some tylenol/naproxen for anti inflam and i went out and grabbed some animal flex tonight since it was only 10 bucks more than the msm, glucosamine, chondroitin mix i was looking at and i've read good stuff about it.

self massage is kinda tough for me as the back of the shoulder/middle of back is a tough spot to reach.. and then massage around lol

thanks for the advice and help brain.. ill let ya know how it goes.

[sifr]

self massage is kinda tough for me as the back of the shoulder/middle of back is a tough spot to reach.. and then massage around lol

get a baseball, or hockey ball, or pool ball or something, put it between your shoulder and the wall, and move around.

[bigred253]

get a baseball, or hockey ball, or pool ball or something, put it between your shoulder and the wall, and move around.

thanks i was actually going to try with a tennis ball later as i saw something about a tennis ball massage and figured this is what it meant.. i was going to do so laying on my back on a bed so there wasnt too much pressure but ill try it standing against a wall. appreciated.

[braindx]

Can also use the corner of a wall to get the area in the back.