Catrin
12-12-2014, 02:32 PM
Sometimes it feels like I can't win for losing, but that is life sometimes. There may not be a problem, but I've not experienced anything like this in all the years I've had shoulder troubles. Which is pretty much been since I was 12. My KB training session went fine last night...except for the one moment when I got a sharp pain in my left deltoid. Not the first time, that shoulder has, well, altered anatomy (my chiro's words), and that happens sometimes if I don't lock out properly at the top of the lift. I rested a couple of minutes and went back to it, no problem. This morning I rowed for 35 minutes (close to 6K meters). I didn't want to over do things because our Saturday KB workouts are always intense, but not shoulder pain rowing.
For most of the day, however, I've had twinges of pain in my shoulder that also causes numbness in my first two fingers at the same time. Sometimes aching in the shoulder, sometimes not. I can poke with my fingers and cause pain - again not bad but still... I also know that quite often pain that high up isn't in the arm but referred from other parts of the shoulder, like the rotator cuff. I've come SO far with THAT shoulder that it would indeed be ironic if I damaged it with such a light weight.
I honestly don't know what to think. I am getting ready to do a nice long session of gentle stretching and some mobility work. Crossing my fingers that nothing will cause pain. I've such a high threshold for pain that it is sometimes hard for me to use a pain scale - I remember when I was back to work a week after a major abdominal surgery - the old fashioned kind where they cut all the way across. My coach KNOWS me and has a lot of personal experience with this kind of thing as well - I will go tomorrow unless things get worse. He may not allow me to do anything, but it is so hard for me to tell sometimes if there is a real problem or not. There are disadvantages at having a high pain threshold...
Please send me good thoughts on this. Thankfully I see my Chiropractor (high level Sports & ART practitioner) on Tuesday afternoon for my usual monthly visit.
For most of the day, however, I've had twinges of pain in my shoulder that also causes numbness in my first two fingers at the same time. Sometimes aching in the shoulder, sometimes not. I can poke with my fingers and cause pain - again not bad but still... I also know that quite often pain that high up isn't in the arm but referred from other parts of the shoulder, like the rotator cuff. I've come SO far with THAT shoulder that it would indeed be ironic if I damaged it with such a light weight.
I honestly don't know what to think. I am getting ready to do a nice long session of gentle stretching and some mobility work. Crossing my fingers that nothing will cause pain. I've such a high threshold for pain that it is sometimes hard for me to use a pain scale - I remember when I was back to work a week after a major abdominal surgery - the old fashioned kind where they cut all the way across. My coach KNOWS me and has a lot of personal experience with this kind of thing as well - I will go tomorrow unless things get worse. He may not allow me to do anything, but it is so hard for me to tell sometimes if there is a real problem or not. There are disadvantages at having a high pain threshold...
Please send me good thoughts on this. Thankfully I see my Chiropractor (high level Sports & ART practitioner) on Tuesday afternoon for my usual monthly visit.