Paddling pain

It could just be shoulder impingement or tendonitis, take advil and rest up. I have injured both shoulders and you'll hear cracking and feel some discomfort with motion at times, but it takes time to heal so best advice is to no put pressure on it too much and/or in the position where it might hurt.

Keep taking advil to reduce the swelling and inflammtion of the joint or muscle--should be good to go in a couple weeks just unfortunately takes a while to heal.

 

go to the gym and work out. as long as your shoulder isn't dislocating your ok. as its nothing like my knee as i gotta get some surgery on the knee one day. but take some advil and build up muscle thats what my physical therapist told me when i injured my knee but i had the good pain killers. also no more paddling over to mase.

 

Aleeve works the best for me for that type of pain. I often get what is called tennis elbow when I travel abroad and am forced to surf good waves for weeks straight.

 

i was just messing with you leddy about working out with the bad shoulder. but trully take a good pain killer and dont surf. but defiently stretch that area out when you do go surfing.

 

So, a guy walks into a doctor's office and says. . .

"Doc, it really hurts when I do THIS" at which point he raises his arm.

The Doctor says, "Then don't do THAT."

 

Ice

Ice it a few times a day. Ice is the most under rated treatment for these kinds of injurys/over use porblems.

 

here what my orthopedic doctor says to do. ice it for 15 mins then take the ice off for about 30 mins or so. and ice it about 3 times a day.

 

Yep

Ice is good....It will keep the swelling down and pressure from building and this helps from causing additional injury. Hit the gym lightly, if your too sore to work out do some stretching...get that lactic acid out of the muscle, take vitamin D, eat banana's, and drink water...Building the muscles up year round is key especially when you're over 30...

 

Could be tendonitis back there. My shoulder pops / cracks because of tendonitis. Just take some Advil before you go out and then some afterwards. Try stretching the area as much as you can before you go out too.

 

I have tendinitis in both shoulders. Sometimes when I paddle it sounds like rice crispy treats. I take 800mg of any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Either advil or motrin is fine. Just make sure it reads "NSAID" on the bottle. Other than that, you're just dealing with pain. I wouldn't take aleve (naproxin) and definitely don't take Tylenol.

When my shoulders get really bad, I take a week off all exercise, take 800mg of NSAIDs every 6 hours and ice my shoulders. It's normally alright after a week or less. Good luck this weekend, dude. I moved to DC a little while ago and have no idea where to go. I saw the thread on OC and will head there on Sunday. Saturday looks to be WAY too big for my funboard

 

I competitively swam for 17 years, so I'm no stranger to the nagging shoulder pain. Aleve and other pain killers help, but if you're looking to go out and are not sure if your shoulder is healed or "O.K." I would suggest giving it a rigorous stretch before paddling out. I would also suggest before you head out into the break, take a few minutes to paddle near the shoreline, then stretch out again. Pre activity stretches are good, but they pale in comparison to stretches when the blood is blowing a bit.