A poke in the ribs
I’ve never felt so good after a jolly good poke in the ribs.
Sad but true.
The problem with my Deltoid muscle hasn’t lessened. Weird. I expected it to be like using another long forgotten muscle. It hurts for a good 2-3 days and then it comes right.
No such luck.
I went swimming yesterday (did I blog about that?) and while it was pretty good throughout the swim session, it burnt like crazy after. I was forever rubbing my arm during the day and of course had difficulty getting comfortable in bed.
Anyways, this morning I was back to see Chelsea at Active Health at QEII. She’s as much fun as Sally is, and Sally’s a barrel of laughs.
Chelsea had hoped that we’d get back to exercises today but alas it wasn’t to be. As I tried a couple of movements to check what was happening she could see me lifting my shoulder. I wasn’t even aware.
There was quite a bit of poking and prodding, the final being right under my arm pit. You have a moment of panic wondering if you’ve just shaved when someone announces that they need to get into that spot.
Chelsea also warned we wouldn’t be friends after it because it would be awful. So anything nice I had to say, needed to be said beforehand.
When the time came I asked if she could sing throughout. She suggested that wouldn’t give me any relief, only intensify my pain.
See, she’s funny.
Actually it was uncomfortable but it was tolerable. And while I felt like someone had winded me as I sat in the car driving (as if you walk about in the car while driving), I’ve found it’s been remarkably better today.
That and raising my chair so my arm was bent at 90deg while at my desk.
I still feel myself hitch up at the shoulder. I’m not sure if I need to raise my chair further or it’s happening out of habit. Lets hope it’s out of habit. I’m almost touching the underside of the table with the seat raised as it is.
Here’s hoping that my Deltoid is finally on the road to recovery.
Sometimes this blog is about my struggle with eating properly. I do seem to have an infatuation. But really it's more about my life, and my training. A bit of a mixed bag really.
Have you ever been videoed in the pool before? The way you stress/exercise/build your delts is by lifting the arm out to the side, like when you’re doing fly lifts with weights in the gym. I’m just wondering whether you’re doing something with that arm when you swim that makes it sore/ache, ie do you lift your arm out to the side when you take a stroke rather than lead with a high elbow? I know my arms do different things depending on which side I breathe to.
Anyway, onwards and upwards – here’s hoping they’ve finally isolated the trouble spot and the physio will work.
Well, Mark did come to video me but we can’t get the tape to rewind to view it.
The problem with my Delt has only come about since I tried to do one of the new Physio exercises I’d been given. Basically I was having to place my arm in a spot that it was under strain before even beginning the exercise. It was always going to end in tears (read that anyway you like).
I don’t think I’m throwing my arm out to the side. I’m sure Tash would have picked that up straight away and I don’t think my technique has changed (for the better or worse).
I definately know the side I don’t breathe on, the arm does something different. Actually I think it’s a lazy arm. When I really focus on the catch I know it’s not really happening on that arm.
Oh. So are you saying that once the delt is fixed, then you still have the “old” shoulder ailment that you used to talk about (like is the delt problem more recent)?
Exactly. I’ve acquired a new problem (the Delt) in trying to strengthen the old problem (calcification in the Bursar). So I’ve lost all round