When I make the freestyle motion, as the elbow is overhead, there is a lot of cracking and popping going on. One of my physio's says its scar tissue and I can keep swimming, but the other says that muscle rubbing against bone.
I previously had impingement in the shoulder...
Thank You
2007-10-13 12:47:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
I would go to the doctor, it might be swimmer's shoulder, if you swim alot. I would go and get it checked out before it get's worse! Good luck!
2007-10-13 13:25:52 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ElizabethAnne♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any answer you get here will only be a guess. Only a doctor can give you an answer, likely with more sophisticated equipment (e.g., x-ray, MRI, etc.) to see what is going on in there. Someone with expertise in the field can probably tell you more.
As for shoulder problems and freestyle, I believe every swimmer I've known with shoulder problems is a freestyler--a distance freestyler. Certainly not uncommon for freestylers to have shoulder problems (it is the repetitive nature of the stress that causes the problems). Some who have problems come back--others do not, unfortunately. Only medical professionals can help.
2007-10-13 18:56:22 · answer #2 · answered by Neptune221 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would definitely go to the doctor asap. this past summer i had what sounds like the same problem as you have, popping & cracking. my sports doctor said that a tendon had popped over the shoulder bone & stretched out too far. i had to have physical therapy & was out of swimming for 4 weeks. the technical name for it is really really long, something -itis. but i hope it gets better!
2007-10-14 13:57:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you swim alot its probly swimmer's shoulder!! I've been swimming forever and since I was 16, im now 18 have been dealing with it! It gets better if you do strechs before practice and then ice after!
2007-10-15 11:57:01 · answer #4 · answered by hyperlil6seat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have the same problem, and do a lot of low weight exercises that work a really small muscle in the shoulder. it holds together the other muscles, so its easily overlooked. it works for me and is strait out of a sports-medicine doctor.
2007-10-16 14:59:04 · answer #5 · answered by mike nap 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GO TO A SPECIALIST! You have to get it checked out before it gets worse. Trust me, a girl on my swim team had a problem, slightly different than yours and she waited until her she almost lost the use of one arm. You dont want to wait too long.
2007-10-16 12:55:06 · answer #6 · answered by WhatGoesAroundComesAround 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are a lot of people at my swimming club that have pains in there shoulders and im one of them. i've found that going for physiotherapy really helps. they do stuff like massaging the muscle and tehn give you excercises that you can do to make it better
2007-10-15 08:11:24 · answer #7 · answered by x_iced_gems_x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to an orthopedic specialist and get it taken care of. do exactly what they say. if you don't, you'll probably develop arthritis there later in life, and swimming will become VERY painful.
2007-10-14 17:14:09 · answer #8 · answered by bad guppy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats surprising with freestyle.. usually people hurt theyre shoulder when they are butterflyers.. i would go to the doctor.. he might send you to a physical therapy.. my friend has to go through that and she says it is helping her a lot..
2007-10-13 13:52:07 · answer #9 · answered by KBro 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
u shud lay offf the swimming till it heals ur muscle might be damaged
2016-05-22 06:57:00 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋