The Injuries Thread - Page 11

1. Google a pic and mark where it hurts.

it hurts in many locations. the entire neck. i have headaches. biceps/triceps are very tight. shoulders are tight. forearm tightness and hand pain are also pretty bad. especially ex tensors and flexors. wrists also have pain.

2. What exercises hurt? Which shoulder articulations hurt? Make sure you check both with passive motion and resistive/active motion.

squeezing weights make hands and forearm hurt. over head excersises like pull downs and pull ups.

3. What type of pain is it? Burning? Ache? Tingling? Sharp?

burning, sharp, sometimes tingling.

4. What would you rate the pain at on a 0/10 scale? 0 being no pain, 10 being go to the emergency room.

7 (used to be 9)

5. Acute or chronic (chronic more than ~6-8 weeks)? What date was onset? How has the pain improved since the initial injury?

its been ongoing for 13 months now. everyday every second of the day. i have started massage and chiropractic care. stopped playing starcraft 2. stopped working out.

6. Have you been training through pain? If so, how long?

i was playing sc2 through pain for about 4-5 months after i got hurt.

7. How deep is the pain? Is it more superficial tissues? Or does it seem to be more inside or around the joint? Describe it.

the pain in the hand and fingers is like an ongoing burning pain. forearms pain and bicep/tricep pain is due to tightness and is more sharp pain. wrist pain is usually sharp feeling. neck and back pain is a sore aching feeling.

8. What have you been doing for recovery purposes?

just started massage and chiropractic therapy. trying not to use pc much and im trying to fix posture. chiro says i have weak back and over developed chest. so im trying to strengthen the back and stretch chest out.

9. What seems to help? What seems to make it worse? Is it constant? Does it increase/decrease with certain activities?

pain and tightness is perpetual. computer keyboard work makes it worse. weight lifting doesn't seem to help. driving and sleeping seem to make it worse as well.

10. Check the tissue quality of the surrounding muscles. Which ones are tight? Which ones are tender? Is there any swelling?
ya just about everything is very tight. forearms are tight and bicep/tricep. shoulders are tight and neck/trap muscles are always aggravated and tight.

11. How does it feel after exercise (if any)? How does it feel at the beginning of the day? How about the end of the day?

beginning of the day is usually better but neck is always stiff. it gets worse as the day goes on. altho, chiro adjustments seem to help alot.

12. Any previous injury history?

played football as running back and middle linebacker for 5 years inn highschool. im 19 yrs old. i cracked my sternum in football.


13. How's your posture?

posture seems to be very bad. both throughout the day as well as sleeping. when i was playing sc2 6 hrs a day i recall being slouched and my head positioned forward. i also worked out with bad posture and walked around with head down alot.

14. What is your current workout routine for that bodypart? Do you play any sports?

currently not doing anything major. just stretching

15. Any other information I should be aware of or that comes to mind that may help?

when i played sc2 i seemed to tense my entire upperbody alot. i played with 200 apm in high high master league. i was playing 6-8 hrs per day during xmas break of last year when pain started to occur. initially, it was only wrist/forearm/hand. then it continued up arm/shoulder/neck/back.

2. What exercises hurt? Which shoulder articulations hurt? Make sure you check both with passive motion and resistive/active motion.
http://www.exrx.net/Articulations/Shoulder.html

Flexion: Going from bottom to about headheight with like 5kg, there is no pain.
Extension: I did a dumbbell pullover, I assume it's the same thing? There is no pain during the movement itself, but I can feel a slight pain during the stretch at the bottom.
Adduction: Pullups, there is pain when elbows are 90 degrees, and above that point.
Abduction: Pain throughout the entire movement.
Transverse Adduction: No pain.
Transverse Flexion: Slight pain at the bottom, otherwise no pain.
Transverse Abduction: Pain during the top 20 or so degrees.
Transverse Extension: No pain.
Medial Rotation (Internal Rotation): No pain.
Lateral Rotation (External Rotation): No pain, but my awful flexibility only allows me to get to about 45 degrees on the upper part of the movement.
See edit, also.

3. What type of pain is it? Burning? Ache? Tingling? Sharp?

Not sure about these, definitely not sharp like when I strained my back. Not really tingling, so I guess ache.

4. What would you rate the pain at on a 0/10 scale? 0 being no pain, 10 being go to the emergency room.

When it's just the motion maybe 1-2, with weights 2-3. It's not like I have to stop because of the pain.

5. Acute or chronic (chronic more than ~6-8 weeks)? What date was onset? How has the pain improved since the initial injury?

Probably chronic, don't remember when I first felt it but it was several months ago, but very very slight, during bench press. Now it's more painful.

6. Have you been training through pain? If so, how long?

Well yes, but at first it would disappear after my first work set, and it was barely noticeable. I would say maybe 1 month where it has been noticeable through all my sets.

7. How deep is the pain? Is it more superficial tissues? Or does it seem to be more inside or around the joint? Describe it.

There doesn't seem to be any muscles where the pain is so I assume it's either a bone or the joint. If I press on the bone it hurts more.

8. What have you been doing for recovery purposes?

Nothing really, I did some rotator cuff stuff with external rotation before bench pressing, I think it helped a little bit during the exercise but there was still pain.

9. What seems to help? What seems to make it worse? Is it constant? Does it increase/decrease with certain activities?

It gets less painful the further I get in my workout, but the pain never go below a certain point. It's not really constant, it's during certain parts of the movements. The two worst exercises would be heavy benchpress and overhead press. And it's then mainly throughout the bottom portion and gets gradually less painful the further up I get.

10. Check the tissue quality of the surrounding muscles. Which ones are tight? Which ones are tender? Is there any swelling?

If I relax the arm on something there isn't really anything tight except for my traps, because I seem to have somewhat of a stiff neck. No tender and I can't really see any swelling.

11. How does it feel after exercise (if any)? How does it feel at the beginning of the day? How about the end of the day?

Well after I've done the exercises I would say it feels better, because then I guess it's kind of stretched and warmed up, but a while later it feels worse. I haven't really noticed any difference throughout the day if I don't perform any exercises. If anything I would say it feels slightly better later on in the day, because I have a tendency to sleep on my shoulders.

12. Any previous injury history?

I have some tendonitis in my left forearm I've been working on with stretches/massage and all that busniess, but it's in the other arm.

13. How's your posture?

Since I started lifting weights my posture has pretty much fixed itself apart from my shoulders, which are slouching forward. But I guess it doesn't really help I do everything in front of the computer besides cooking, walking dog and working out.

14. What is your current workout routine for that bodypart? Do you play any sports?

I play tennis very casually for 1 hour every weekend, but nothing serious.
This is my entire routine:

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15. Any other information I should be aware of or that comes to mind that may help?

Not that I can think of.

Thanks for any help

Edit: I was messing around some with my arm now, and the Medial Rotation (Internal Rotation) seems to hurt now, it didn't before. It starts to hurt when my arm points about 45 degrees away from my body and beyond that point. Or maybe this technically is an external rotation? It seems that, if I keep my upper arm really tight against my body, I don't feel any pain, but if I let it flare out just a couple of cm, there is pain.

Edit 2: It definitely hurts more now than before I did all those exercises provided in the link, if that is of any help. It's been about 2 hrs since I did them.

2. What exercises hurt? Which shoulder articulations hurt? Make sure you check both with passive motion and resistive/active motion.
http://www.exrx.net/Articulations/Shoulder.html

Turning my head to the left hurts extremely bad.

3. What type of pain is it? Burning? Ache? Tingling? Sharp?

Sharp.

4. What would you rate the pain at on a 0/10 scale? 0 being no pain, 10 being go to the emergency room.

If I keep my head still, 1. If I turn my head and hold it there, 8.

5. Acute or chronic (chronic more than ~6-8 weeks)? What date was onset? How has the pain improved since the initial injury?

Acute pain. I don't remember injuring it. I just woke up this way.

6. Have you been training through pain? If so, how long?

No, I'm way too afraid to squat with this pain.

7. How deep is the pain? Is it more superficial tissues? Or does it seem to be more inside or around the joint? Describe it.

It seems to be fairly deep, although I can't really tell how deep.

8. What have you been doing for recovery purposes?

Frequent hot baths and massaging it by myself.

9. What seems to help? What seems to make it worse? Is it constant? Does it increase/decrease with certain activities?

Nothing seems to help so far.

10. Check the tissue quality of the surrounding muscles. Which ones are tight? Which ones are tender? Is there any swelling?

Just that area seems to be tight. Pushing on it of course exposes a serious tenderness.

11. How does it feel after exercise (if any)? How does it feel at the beginning of the day? How about the end of the day?

Haven't been exercising. It feels pretty bad all day, but it hurts most in the morning upon waking up.

12. Any previous injury history?

Nothing relevant.

13. How's your posture?

I'd say pretty good.

14. What is your current workout routine for that bodypart? Do you play any sports?

Haven't lifted in a month.

15. Any other information I should be aware of or that comes to mind that may help?

As I said before, last week the right side hurt, and this week the left side hurts. I have to keep my head straight at all times or I get a sudden stabbing pain.