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From: Hammond on 6 Aug 2008 09:20

<sjobs12(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0a79a5d7-6218-4ea3-a614-bcc816c3b337(a)59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> About 6 to 9 months ago, I did a upper body workout and my left hand
> might
> have been used inappropriately. Anyway, since then, there is a pain in
> my
> left shoulder and it is not going away. Any workout I do with my left
> hand
> aggravates it. Even swimming causes problems. If I stop using the left
> hand
> for any workouts for a few days, the pain reduces but does not go
> away. My
> doctor gave me some medicines but they didn't work. He asked me to see
> a
> specialist. Someone suggested that I give up doing any exercises and
> any lifting with my left hand for 6 months.
>
> Has anybody experienced this?
>

Jayzuus! Six months is a bit draconian.

I frequently acquire shoulder/elbo/knee injuries, and I have learned over
the years to stop and let them rest and heal (keyword here (heal*) for a
period of time. I can't suggest what that length of time might be for you,
but I suspect it is prolly a lot longer than "a few days". Try a few
weeks...with appropriate, daily sports cream treatments. Once you get a
good feel for it, return to your regimen very gradualy/slowly--with adequate
warm up and stretches beforehand. Bruce Lee once said that the older an
athlete becomes the longer he takes in warming up. "Not because he's older,
but because he's smarter." Good advice.

The general mode for everyday gym guys is to begin an exercise with a light
set and then *too* quickly move to the heavy ones. This usually constitutes
their *warm up* and is seldom enough.

--Hammond


From: BOfL on 7 Aug 2008 05:47
On Aug 6, 11:20 pm, "Hammond" <V...(a)Apex.net> wrote:
> <sjob...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:0a79a5d7-6218-4ea3-a614-bcc816c3b337(a)59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > About 6 to 9 months ago, I did a upper body workout and my left hand
> > might
> > have been used inappropriately. Anyway, since then, there is a pain in
> > my
> > left shoulder and it is not going away. Any workout I do with my left
> > hand
> > aggravates it. Even swimming causes problems. If I stop using the left
> > hand
> > for any workouts for a few days, the pain reduces but does not go
> > away. My
> > doctor gave me some medicines but they didn't work. He asked me to see
> > a
> > specialist. Someone suggested that I give up doing any exercises and
> > any lifting with my left hand for 6 months.
>
> > Has anybody experienced this?
>
> Jayzuus!   Six months is a bit draconian.
>
> I frequently acquire shoulder/elbo/knee injuries, and I have learned over
> the years to stop and let them rest and heal (keyword here (heal*) for a
> period of time.  I can't suggest what that length of time might be for you,
> but I suspect it is prolly a lot longer than "a few days".  Try a few
> weeks...with appropriate, daily sports cream treatments.  Once you get a
> good feel for it, return to your regimen very gradualy/slowly--with adequate
> warm up and stretches beforehand.   Bruce Lee once said that the older an
> athlete becomes the longer he takes in warming up.  "Not because he's older,
> but because he's smarter."   Good advice.
>
> The general mode for everyday gym guys is to begin an exercise with a light
> set and then *too* quickly move to the heavy ones.  This usually constitutes
> their *warm up* and is seldom enough.
>
> --Hammond- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thats a good prevention, but can exacerbate the problem. Part of
warming up includes natural anesthesia, and can facilitate further
damage.

B
From: spodosaurus on 7 Aug 2008 07:01
BOfL wrote:
> Part of
> warming up includes natural anesthesia,

Please elaborate on this.

Ari

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From: supernico on 25 Aug 2008 03:40
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