Stupid Question (Shoulder Injury?)

Making a long story short:

My [right] shoulder has some pre-existing damage to the ligaments and/or tendons that make it more prone to dislocating when pressure is applied at a certain angle (or when I'm running because of the repetetive motion). It's not nearly as painful as it sounds, but it's nevertheless distracting and hard to deal with while I'm running. It was getting steadily worse and so I went to the doctor for it, and his only real suggestions were to stop running (yeah right) or to wear a brace.

I did pick up a brace about a week ago, but it doesn't actually keep it in place, just hinders movement.

(For the record, it's not as though it's tearing tendons and such when it dislocates...mostly it's very minor and easy to bounce back from.)

Does anyone know of what I might do for this? Or should I just get used to it? Are there maybe some strenghtening exercises that I can do?

dang dude i've never heard of it. idk.

idk at all i would say you could go to a physical therapist and figure out though.

Yeah, do some strenghthening. I fucked my shoulder up playing hockey, and every couple weeks when I'm playing pick up basketball or something it'll pop and be messed up.

no idea, go ask someone with training in that area

wait...your shoulder dislocates when youre running thats weird, see a doctor

runner_dude wrote:Yeah, do some strenghthening. I fucked my shoulder up playing hockey, and every couple weeks when I'm playing pick up basketball or something it'll pop and be messed up.

World Juniors in 2000 we beat your guys ass. Go USA! Then we got the tournament about a half mile from my house and we sucked

haha sorry for the spam

Then came the 2002 olympics

P2 wrote:

runner_dude wrote:Yeah, do some strenghthening. I fucked my shoulder up playing hockey, and every couple weeks when I'm playing pick up basketball or something it'll pop and be messed up.

World Juniors in 2000 we beat your guys ass. Go USA! Then we got the tournament about a half mile from my house and we sucked

haha sorry for the spam

What about 2005, 2006, 2007, or 2008? Or any of the other 14 titles Canada has won?

haha nice RD.

We'll stick to football if you stick to hockey.

But you guys couldn't win the world championship in hockey with a bunch of college rejects.

USA>world in any form of football. besides soccer. but soccer is dumb.

rugby > football imo

runner_dude wrote:Yeah, do some strenghthening. I fucked my shoulder up playing hockey, and every couple weeks when I'm playing pick up basketball or something it'll pop and be messed up.

Did it get better once you started working with it more?

PT/Orthopedic surgeon says I could get it fixed up surgically (to clear away scar tissue and repair ligaments and such), but I might not keep full use of my arm (not sure that I'm willing to do that) and would be out for all of XC (definitely not willing to do that). So I don't know yet. Definitely will start strengthening and stretching, and I'll see if that helps.

And, for the record, American football completely destroys rugby. Completely.

Kugar wrote:

runner_dude wrote:Yeah, do some strenghthening. I fucked my shoulder up playing hockey, and every couple weeks when I'm playing pick up basketball or something it'll pop and be messed up.

Did it get better once you started working with it more?

PT/Orthopedic surgeon says I could get it fixed up surgically (to clear away scar tissue and repair ligaments and such), but I might not keep full use of my arm (not sure that I'm willing to do that) and would be out for all of XC (definitely not willing to do that). So I don't know yet. Definitely will start strengthening and stretching, and I'll see if that helps.

And, for the record, American football completely destroys rugby. Completely.

maybe you should think long term instead of short term....

AudienceOfOne wrote:

Kugar wrote:

runner_dude wrote:Yeah, do some strenghthening. I fucked my shoulder up playing hockey, and every couple weeks when I'm playing pick up basketball or something it'll pop and be messed up.

Did it get better once you started working with it more?

PT/Orthopedic surgeon says I could get it fixed up surgically (to clear away scar tissue and repair ligaments and such), but I might not keep full use of my arm (not sure that I'm willing to do that) and would be out for all of XC (definitely not willing to do that). So I don't know yet. Definitely will start strengthening and stretching, and I'll see if that helps.

And, for the record, American football completely destroys rugby. Completely.

maybe you should think long term instead of short term....

I probably should. But I'm going to shop around first, I think. There's got to be more than two options, and I'm really not into the idea of a surgery that might or might not be "successful." Especially given the track record of my surgeon.

In the mean time, as long as I'm not doing any additional damage, I think I'll start some more intensive PT-type stuff along with stretches and such....

ok, good luck. sorry we don't know squat about this....

Make sure you go to a doctor who runs or understands running and runners. If stop running is a doctor's answer, he is not a good doctor. Sounds like you're in a pretty sticky situation. Good luck.