clevermanka | Lessons in body limits

Last week I pulled my shoulder all weird while I was (drum roll, please) squirming out of a sweaty sports bra. It's been getting more and more tender and yesterday it felt pretty awful. The joint was hot and achey and it hurt no matter how I held it. Risa spent most of our rolfing time last night working on it and figured out it's not really the joint. It's one of the muscles that's tucked under the top muscles of my shoulder blade and deltoid. Maybe the Teres major? I can do most arm and shoulder exercises (push ups, rows, plank, etc.) with minimal discomfort, but when she asked me to raise my arm away from my side while she pressed (gently!) on the wrist? Ow. Immediate pain. I'm icing it (meaning I brought a bag of frozen pearl onions to work and I'm slapping that on my shoulder every hour or so) and taking ibuprofen.

From a freaking sports bra, people. How insulting. Lesson learned? I must purchase sports bras that have actual closures and ditch my pull-on-pull-off cheap ones.

Training tonight might be interesting. (Note: Did all lower body stuff last night with the exception of rowing on the water-resistance rowing machine for a warm up. No way in hell I'm jumping rope without a sports bra.)

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My guess is that this isn't a teres major injury. It sounds more like a problem with the infraspinatus or maybe even levator scapulae, but I certainly couldn't tell.

Either way, ice is your friend indeed.

I'm so grateful it's not cold weather yet. I don't know that I'd be able to bear icing it if the weather was all snowy and gross.

I hate pull-on pull-off sports bras with a very special passion, even though I still have one. Thankfully it's so old as to be nearly useless, so I seldom have to do that odd jumping-up-and-down thing to pull it over my head. Get this: I actually managed to *sublux* my shoulder once with that stupid bra.

Highly recommended: Title Nine Sports bra selection. Comprehensive AND humorous! http://www.titlenine.com/category/sports-bras-and-undies.do

Yep! If I can't find something at Weaver's downtown, you better believe I'll be shopping the Title Nine store.

I actually managed to *sublux* my shoulder once with that stupid bra.

I totally believe it. I think that's what almost happened to me. But because my shoulders are fancy-baby flexible, I wrenched the muscle instead of the joint.

SOOPER. :)

I wish Title Nine made sports bras in my size, but if there's anyone else out there whose true size is out of the realm of DDD, I can recommend Freya's Sports bras (http://www.barenecessities.com/Freya-Firm-Control-Underwire-Sports-Bra_product_Freya4392_,search,.htm) from the 32DD community. I have a soft cup style and it's still a partial pull-on and a real pain, so this one is my next stop.

Runners think this one is the shiz: http://www.enell.com/

I want to order an Enell because I'm so tired of the Sweaty Sports Bra Dance of Frustration as well. It is just ... really expensive.

Thankfully, I am not terribly well-endowed, and I don't do much jumping or other activities that cause me to bounce. So I don't have to pay quite as much for the mega-support.

*whew*

Yeah, I'd already be a size 0 for that bra, but ...

No Bounce = Good for me. Not even the pain from bouncing, but the pain from chaffing because of friction from the constant bouncing. That's why I finally had to go out and buy a smaller sports bra, otherwise the bouncing wouldn't bother me.

I just bought one new one, so if you find a good one with enclosures, let me know.

Will do!

Gross. I seriously sympathize with the insulting injury phenomenon. Shoveling in flip-flops was mine and it put me out of commission for WAY too long. I hope yours heals much more quickly than mine did.

I only use full closure sports bras any more. I always hated the squirming necessary for the slip-on's and they never felt as supportive. You probably know, but I highly recommend Title 9.

I seriously sympathize with the insulting injury phenomenon

Yes. If I must be injured, I want the cause to be romantic or noble. Worming out of a poorly-fitted sports bra is neither. I mean come on.

I seriously sympathize with the insulting injury phenomenon

Yes. If I must be injured, I want the cause to be romantic or noble.

OMG YES. This is my bane, given my back. I don't even *mind* the back being out itself as much as I mind that it went out because I, oh, shut the fridge door with my hip and not, you know, lifted the car off my child or something. So, then not only am I lame, but I'm *lame*.

::sigh::

Overall, though, this post made me laugh. I'm pretty giddy today because straight from nannying i get jet and we head down to pumpkin fest which is then nonstop every weekend and takes an extraoridinary amount of gearing up for because it's not just the literal tons of pumpkins it is the *people* and the smiling *chat* that is required of my position specifically; a month's worth weekends which entail 20+ hours of physical endurance and social charm both turned on to the max - I'm sure you can relate. :)

20+ hours of physical endurance and social charm both turned on to the max - I'm sure you can relate

Srsly.

Happy to make you laugh! It's especially funny when you have the additional information that I'm belly dancing Saturday and Sunday this weekend. My one instance of back-to-back dance days during the whole run of this year's faire.

Typical!

A lady I used to know who is both a physiotherapist and a 4th degree black belt in aikido (so knows about all there is to know about falling and rolling safely, including doing backflips 2ft in the air) threw out her back picking up a hairbrush.

It could be worse.

Ha ha ha ha!

I mean, OMG, poor woman...

I pulled a muscle in my back picking a half carton of eggs out of my fridge about a month ago. It's only now just getting back to normal. Oy!

Oh, geez.

Thanks for the reminder that it could be worse. Thank goodness this is my shoulder, not my back.

I'm gonna' say impingement. It sounds like your acromial bursa, the little packet of tendons and sheathes between your humerus and acromion process (the bony bit at the point of your shoulder), got squeezed. This is the end of your supraspinatus, which is (along with your deltiod) responsible for moving you arm laterally. It's joint capsule can get pinched if things are a bit misaligned.
It sukks and there is naught you can do but...
Rest Ice Compress Elevate, as Normalcy pretty much said.
compress is a bit weird in this situation.
eElevate basically means, don't sleep on that side.
sounds acute tho, which is good, 'cause people with the chronic version can't raise their hand to answer questions, even in the most basic anatomy classes...
***Yeah I got an "A" in my Sports Injuries class. It took me about a year to recover...***

This sounds exactly like what I did. Thanks! Going to go *shudder* put some ice on now so I can get a couple sessions of that done before I head out to faire site today.

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