Doc,
Now that I'm finally back on the board, I was hoping you might use your profound insights to help me a bit.
The issue: my silly shoulder. See when i was younger I ended up fracturing my collar bone really nicely, flipping over the handle bars of my bike after flying down one of the steepest hills around my house. It hurt real badly.
The thing is that it always irritated me as I grew older - my neck being stiff regularly, popping noises coming from the area, and soreness. I seem to need to do the back and forth, grab my chin and back of my head deal, to crack my neck a lot. As I was training heavily in the Arts before I came to China, it sometimes felt better. On the other hand, my Shi fu is a big fan of arm swings. The amount of arm swings loosened my body up, for sure, but the problem in my shoulder neck region pervaded, and it seemed to agitate it more and more the looser I became. Anyway, about 1 year ago now, as I was enjoying a quite flamboyant episode of push hands, I floated over my classmates head with a right open hand smack to the ear, which he slipped under and parried. I turned my right shoulder to the left as he swept my leg out from under me. Instead of doing what I probably did more than 5 hundred times before, which would be to tuck my right should under and just roll through, the speed was a little overwhelming so I guess I switched in hesitation. At the last moment I basically slammed my left shoulder into the floor. It hurt real badly. When I got up it popped. I thought doing a few arm swings would help, like walking it off, but my body kind a went into a shock from the pain. It became very sore and after a while I couldn't move the shoulder. I even felt sick cause of the pain I suppose. No medical insurance so..no doctor visit.
It took about a month before I got most of the movement back. And the newly injured area was located more in the cuff part of my shoulder, like around the rotator cuff. It really feels a mess combined with my once fractured collar bone that sticks up a few extra centimeters, compared to the right one that is. It's always putting strain down through my arm. My thinking is due to a lack of blood flow. Yet the problem seems to be inside at a place I can't readily locate, underneath and to the right of the color bone, if your facing me.
This year I've given it a lot of rest and have been doing some light weight training. The only MA I've done over here was some tai ji. Nothings changed though. Anyway, bet your wondering what the heck my question is after all this. I just want to know if you can shed some light on my problem? Is there anything more I should consider doing? When I have a better opportunity i will jump back into my training, but I'm a little worried that I'll end up hurting it again and well, you get my drift. Thanks!
D
Now that I'm finally back on the board, I was hoping you might use your profound insights to help me a bit.
The issue: my silly shoulder. See when i was younger I ended up fracturing my collar bone really nicely, flipping over the handle bars of my bike after flying down one of the steepest hills around my house. It hurt real badly.
The thing is that it always irritated me as I grew older - my neck being stiff regularly, popping noises coming from the area, and soreness. I seem to need to do the back and forth, grab my chin and back of my head deal, to crack my neck a lot. As I was training heavily in the Arts before I came to China, it sometimes felt better. On the other hand, my Shi fu is a big fan of arm swings. The amount of arm swings loosened my body up, for sure, but the problem in my shoulder neck region pervaded, and it seemed to agitate it more and more the looser I became. Anyway, about 1 year ago now, as I was enjoying a quite flamboyant episode of push hands, I floated over my classmates head with a right open hand smack to the ear, which he slipped under and parried. I turned my right shoulder to the left as he swept my leg out from under me. Instead of doing what I probably did more than 5 hundred times before, which would be to tuck my right should under and just roll through, the speed was a little overwhelming so I guess I switched in hesitation. At the last moment I basically slammed my left shoulder into the floor. It hurt real badly. When I got up it popped. I thought doing a few arm swings would help, like walking it off, but my body kind a went into a shock from the pain. It became very sore and after a while I couldn't move the shoulder. I even felt sick cause of the pain I suppose. No medical insurance so..no doctor visit.
It took about a month before I got most of the movement back. And the newly injured area was located more in the cuff part of my shoulder, like around the rotator cuff. It really feels a mess combined with my once fractured collar bone that sticks up a few extra centimeters, compared to the right one that is. It's always putting strain down through my arm. My thinking is due to a lack of blood flow. Yet the problem seems to be inside at a place I can't readily locate, underneath and to the right of the color bone, if your facing me.
This year I've given it a lot of rest and have been doing some light weight training. The only MA I've done over here was some tai ji. Nothings changed though. Anyway, bet your wondering what the heck my question is after all this. I just want to know if you can shed some light on my problem? Is there anything more I should consider doing? When I have a better opportunity i will jump back into my training, but I'm a little worried that I'll end up hurting it again and well, you get my drift. Thanks!
D
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