Update on the shoulder

[Blueberry]

Wow!!! I'm so glad you went to yoga. And that you found a non-surgical alternative (always nice when there is one)!

CA

[bmccasland]

That's great! Where did you find a yoga class? I keep thinking that'll help my various tight muscles...

No surgery fixes are always better. What did your Surgeon say? Yoga is bad for business?

[ehirsch83]

Yeah the surgical coordinater for the ortho didn't seem to thrilled, oh well. I would rather not go through surgery unless I have to(also don't feel like shelling out all that money to find out that they didn't really need to go in there).

I also work at a small neighborhood gym while I am completing my bachelors(the same people own the LBS that I work at on the weekends) and we have an amazing yoga instructor(who went to worlds for short course DU a couple years ago) who comes twice a week for classes. Some classes, like monday, are focused almost exclusivly on stretching, while some days are focused on strength. There are also quite a few cyclist in the class, so we do a lot of stretches for the back,quads,it bands, and hamstrings- so it is the perfect class for an athlete, since she is a former endurance athlete herself!

[KnottedYet]

ehirsh - sounds like you had a "joint derangement" which yoga cleared up for you! Hooray! If it comes back, don't despair. Do the yoga move that fixed you again (and if you can, do it every couple hours until you've been pain-free for a week and you can assume the boo-boo has healed completely) or find a McKenzie-trained physical therapist who can help you refine the motion that reduces your derangement.

I love it when this stuff happens!

[SheFly]

Yay! Definitely a better option than surgery, and trust me when I say I know how happy you must feel! Keep up with the yoga, and good luck with the training (my first race is in 3 weeks ).

SheFly

[tulip]

That's great news! I have a hip issue that has been bothering me for years. Somehow, the other day, I moved (I was not doing yoga...TMI...) and I heard and felt this THUD, and my hip has been amazingly pain free ever since.

So yoga works, and, um, so do other mind-body activities...

But back to the shoulder, I do have an old rotator cuff injury that has come back because I started doing some weight lifting and I did the butterfly-type machine, which I knew I shouldn't do, but I did it anyways. So now my shoulder hurts and that's why I opened up this thread. I have a century coming up and a trip to France with alot of cycling and I don't want my shoulder to hold me back. But I am going to do some yoga, since it's been months since I did it, and see what happens. It may or may not help my shoulder, but it'll have lots of other benefits.