Solved my left shoulder pain?

 alignment  No Responses »
Apr 152008
 

Is it a worrying trend that I write mostly about pain in here? :)

Every once in a while, usually while doing a high block with my left arm, I’d feel a pain in my left shoulder. It felt like a part was rolling over another one.. Muscle over bone, or something like that. It’s not pleasant and is the kind of pain that stops your movement quite short and quite abruptly.

It happened yesterday while doing an uppercut (or, you know, punch to under the jaw/to the throat/etc). I realized my body alignment was wrong and my left elbow wasn’t kept in properly. As soon as I fix that, I think, I’ll feel a lot better about the whole thing :)

This of course begs the question.. What else am I not aligning properly, but maybe not quite wrong enough to get pain from it?

Hurt my mid-back…

 food for thought  No Responses »
Apr 082008
 

    I don’t know how I did it, but at some point during my empty hand class, I hurt my back. Think of a line going horizontally across the middle of the back (under the shoulderblades), and you have it. I didn’t stay for weapons past my bo class and went home. I was OK during my sword class, which means either I wasn’t paying attention, or I wasn’t using those muscles..

It got worse in the evening, to the point where I was walking slowly, and I couldn’t help but play with it a little — forced to use momentum generated by other muscles in order not to feel pain. Sunday was better but still careful, and Monday I considered not going to work but I felt good enough not to let it stop me. Training on Monday night made it pretty much all go away.

It’s very interesting to be in pain, when it’s not constant and excruciating (because that just sucks), you can explore better your body’s workings.

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