Repairing a Loose Shoulder joint

[jmpainter]

My shoulders pull out of socket easily.
I've had a few painful injuries from wrestling (fell on it and it popped out)
Military behind the neck press and it came loose with a lot of weight on it.
Those were about 20 years ago.

I do lots of martial art training (Kali, JKD, Mantis) where I snap my arms out. Sometimes straight, sometimes at hooking angles (hooks are worse).

I am doing IntuFlow and Flow Fit as well as the ClubBell casts from Grapplers Toolbox and can feel my whole shoulder system getting stronger.

Any specific tips for saving my shoulder?
It is terrible to be good at techniques after years of training that are too painful to train!

My shoulder pain is an annoying burn in the front top at the joint.
Rolling it back and down relieves the pain.

Thanks,
John

[Coach Jones]

John,

Don't think of it as something that IS to painful to train, think of it instead as something that is too painful for you to train RIGHT NOW. I'm just now coming through the tunnel after a shoulder injury that has kept me from training like I like to - for a couple years. The reason it took so long to reover is that I can be a bullheaded, stubborn ass at times. (some would argue the "at times" part). I neglected to seek out the proper medical attention when it happened and afterwards and muddled through scaled down versions of my training that did me little good.

Here's my advice, go to the doc. Seek out a good sports doc in your area. One that comes with highly recommended. Get in their and have him take a look. Get a good PT, focus entirely on your recovery and do precisely what they say. Accupuncture is what finally did it for me. Careful on this one, there are a lot of people out there looking to "balance your chi" - not what you're looking for. Look for a accupuncturist who appraoches things from a more "medical" perspecive.

It's easy to get discouraged and figure that the things you love to train are just unavailable to you at the same level as before. When that happens we tnd to take what we can get - we settle. DON'T SETTLE. Get a good medical team on your side and take it all back to formula. Heal, recover, and then come back and revisit those skills. Slowly and incrementally. It will all come back fast - you don't lose knowledge that you own. You'll have to bring the physical back up to speed, but it will happen quickly once your recovered.

Best of luck.

[kcsportsdoc]

It's really difficult to imagine better advice than that.

[lorenzodamarith]

hello,

kcsportsdoc, of course coach jones gives good advice. after all, he WAS the oracle at delphi, though he was later fired because the gods thought he was too pretty.

hahahahahahahahahahaha!

thanks

[jmpainter]

I've a friend that is a really good PT.
Going to see her tomorrow.
I also know an excellent Acupuncturist.
I'm kind of avoiding the Doctor as I would just get a Steroid shot wouldn't I?

THANKS!

[kcsportsdoc]

Don't assume the worst. While there are certainly Docs who fit into the category of taking the path of least resistance: Chiros who just want to snap you, P.T.s who slap you on heat and ultrasound and give you a sheet of general exercises, and Orthopods who just want to mask it, shoot it up or cut it out, there are many others who want to help you get to the root of the problem. You just have to figure out which kind of office you're in! The point of going to a doctor of any kind is to find out specifically what the problem is and the severity thereof. What you do with that information is then up to you, as an informed patient.

Best,