Wow. I have not had time for much lately. Got home at 5 am last night from work if that tells ya anything...
Anyway, Tom, I like your Q & A idea! And since I haven't had much time to think about anything lately, I gladly open up this post to any questions at all. In fact, I welcome any questions at any time. And vice versa. If you have anything you'd like to share, please feel free to do so. Far be it from me to stop ya!
I'm no expert and will admit I don't have an answer when I know I don't have one. Just give me some time so I can look into it and we will all hopefully be the wiser.
Once your injury heals up, will you be purchasing the new body by jake regiment, seeing as CF has proven to be quite bad for Mr. JJ? If so, can I borrow it once you are finished? Also, what's the best way to stretch and heal a nagging shoulder/ rotator cuff injury? What an anterior deltoid tweak? Any tricks up your sleeve from the baseball days?
ReplyDeleteHa! I may just do that. Perhaps a shake weight is in my future.
ReplyDeleteLet me preface this by saying I'm not a doctor or a physical therapist. But if your shoulder is actually injured, as in persistent soreness, pain, sensitivity to the touch, etc. then the best thing is rest. Unfortunately that's probably it. If you feel like you've done real damage then you should see a professional. If after resting for awhile doesn't prove to help, then you may need to see someone.
If there are WODs that you know will attack your sore spot you should probably modify or swap the movement. You can still use the shoulder to keep it moving and working but if there is any kind of pain, stop immediately.
Elastic bands are great for strengthening the internal parts of the shoulder and can definitely be used to warm it up before working the deltoids. I'll try to find a link to some good exercises but here are some brief descriptions from my baseball days working with pitchers that will give you the right idea:
Wrap the band around a fixed vertical object like a pole at just above waist level. From there you can do internal and external rotations by placing a folded towel between your elbow and your torso. Standing perpendicular to the post, rotate your arm towards your body or away from your body (depending on the direction you face) keeping your upper arm next to your body. You can also put your arm up in the air in a scarecrow position and while bending at the elbow, using the upper arm as the axis of rotation, rotate your arm away from the pole. This can be done facing towards and away from the pole.
That should give you an idea of basic things to do and then once you get a feel for how the muscles are working in regards to stretching the band, you can come up with an infinite number of ways to perform a movement to strengthen or warm up the affected area.
As far as my athletic endeavors are concerned, we'll see what the future holds...
Tom P. here's a link to a good Kelly Starrett video from the Crossfit Journal, which has some ideas for great shoulder stretches using bands and a pullup bar. I've played around with this and it definitely hits crazy spots that are hard to stretch.
ReplyDeletehttp://journal.crossfit.com/2010/07/kstarr-2min-3.tpl
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