Shoulder Injury
on 6 may this year i was playing a fun game of cricket and dived for a ball at first slip away to my left. it was a bloody good catch, if i say so myself and left me at full stretch mid air, but i landed awkwardly. my elbow rammed into the ground and left a divot of large proportions, which proceeded to push my shoulder towards my head. obviously the shoulder is not meant to move like that and my upper arm moved back so that my elbow was twisted behind my back, then i rolled on it. this left me in all sorts of pain and i was immediately taken off the field, to find i had a very badly dislocated shoulder. i went into the hospital and had it put back in place after much amount of pain and more morphine then an addict and they thought they discovered (please excuse my lack of medical terms) a very small fracture the the very top and very end of the shoulder, right on the tip (he said something about AC joint or something?), but they werent sure and said that if it was it would be fine. three weeks later, still in great amounts of pain (and seeming ignorance by the hospital, but thats just the queensland health system) they called me back, two weeks after they said they would, and told me to go in to check on any soft tissue damage. they sent me for an ultra sound after discovering my lack of movement, and they found that although the muscles, ligaments, tendons and whatever else there is to do damage to, were in place, and although they were very stretched nothing was torn. they gave me exercises to do on my own, as well as i went to three physio sessions and that improved my strength and movement a lot, but the shoulder is still very weak. i can lift a fairly normal amount of weight with that arm, but once it gets above my head i cant hold it for long before my shoulder gives in. it doesnt hurt, but rather just gives up. i have also noticed a lack of power in there, i am known as a big hitter and at a winter cricket carnival i went to last weekend i went for a hit straight back over the bowlers head, timed and middled it to perfection and it went about three quarters the way to the boundary, instead of the usual 10 metres past it. i am right handed and i found that in fielding as well i couldnt move it as fast as usual to field the ball. the doctor and physio both said that it should be all good now, which they said was very surprising given the amount that my shoulder went through and that when i went in my arm was literally back to front. i dont want to go back in and see about the strength so i thought i should try, of all places, a cricket forum. any way of building power back into that arm? it doesnt hurt much at all anymore and it just feels weak. will just general exercise build it back up or should i go with a more rigorous method? the exercises that im doing dont seem to be working and i want to get back to fielding in the slips instead of down at fine leg and hitting bowlers for six as a tailender. by power i mean the strength + speed definition too, im having trouble just moving it quickly, say the take a catch to my left in slips i cant move it quick enough although i pick the ball up early. any help or suggestions?
on 6 may this year i was playing a fun game of cricket and dived for a ball at first slip away to my left. it was a bloody good catch, if i say so myself and left me at full stretch mid air, but i landed awkwardly. my elbow rammed into the ground and left a divot of large proportions, which proceeded to push my shoulder towards my head. obviously the shoulder is not meant to move like that and my upper arm moved back so that my elbow was twisted behind my back, then i rolled on it. this left me in all sorts of pain and i was immediately taken off the field, to find i had a very badly dislocated shoulder. i went into the hospital and had it put back in place after much amount of pain and more morphine then an addict and they thought they discovered (please excuse my lack of medical terms) a very small fracture the the very top and very end of the shoulder, right on the tip (he said something about AC joint or something?), but they werent sure and said that if it was it would be fine. three weeks later, still in great amounts of pain (and seeming ignorance by the hospital, but thats just the queensland health system) they called me back, two weeks after they said they would, and told me to go in to check on any soft tissue damage. they sent me for an ultra sound after discovering my lack of movement, and they found that although the muscles, ligaments, tendons and whatever else there is to do damage to, were in place, and although they were very stretched nothing was torn. they gave me exercises to do on my own, as well as i went to three physio sessions and that improved my strength and movement a lot, but the shoulder is still very weak. i can lift a fairly normal amount of weight with that arm, but once it gets above my head i cant hold it for long before my shoulder gives in. it doesnt hurt, but rather just gives up. i have also noticed a lack of power in there, i am known as a big hitter and at a winter cricket carnival i went to last weekend i went for a hit straight back over the bowlers head, timed and middled it to perfection and it went about three quarters the way to the boundary, instead of the usual 10 metres past it. i am right handed and i found that in fielding as well i couldnt move it as fast as usual to field the ball. the doctor and physio both said that it should be all good now, which they said was very surprising given the amount that my shoulder went through and that when i went in my arm was literally back to front. i dont want to go back in and see about the strength so i thought i should try, of all places, a cricket forum. any way of building power back into that arm? it doesnt hurt much at all anymore and it just feels weak. will just general exercise build it back up or should i go with a more rigorous method? the exercises that im doing dont seem to be working and i want to get back to fielding in the slips instead of down at fine leg and hitting bowlers for six as a tailender. by power i mean the strength + speed definition too, im having trouble just moving it quickly, say the take a catch to my left in slips i cant move it quick enough although i pick the ball up early. any help or suggestions?
) stop playing sports.