So, the shoulder issues are continuing. Not too bad, I can comb my hair but still don't have my full strength back yet.
BUT . . . I did something adult today. Amazingly enough, I made an appointment and went to the doctor.
The guy was in his 30's and his profile said he was a Penn State grad who had an "interest" in sports medicine. I was somewhat pleased to read that but didn't get too excited.
Sure enough he shows up and he's as skinny as a twig and doesn't look like he knows much about sports. But he's got a Penn State lanyard around his neck which tells me he follows college sports at least because you don't go to Penn State and wear a lanyard because you're not proud of your college sports team. I'm guessing the whole Pa Joe Paterno thing has caused him many a sleepless night.
Anyway, the doc moved my shoulder in all manner of directions trying to find the exact location of my pain. Then he made me feel like a complete idiot. Not on purpose but just because everything he suggested was pretty common sense:
Doc: "Well you don't have a tear but you definitely strained something in your shoulder. How did it feel after you iced it?"
Me: "Uhhhhh, iced it?"
Doc: "Well you said you were in pain, didn't you ice it afterwards?"
Me: "Uh, no. I was kinda hoping it would go away on it's own."
Doc: "Hmmm, what about some sort of anti-inflammatory? You try Motrin?"
Me: Silence. Then finally. "No. Was I supposed to?"
Doc: Silence. Then, "you should try Motrin. And icing your shoulder. Maybe for a couple of weeks and see how it feels."
Me: "Yeah, that sounds good. I'll do both."
Doc: "Do you know what you might have done that strained your shoulder?"
Me: "Well, we had a pretty busy week for shoulder workouts when I first felt pain several weeks ago. We had shoulder presses and over head squats and handstand push-ups." And then I quickly added, "But I think it really started hurting when after I slept at a weird angle."
See, that was a lie. I wasn't even sure why I lied, then I realized later I didn't want him to tell me that I had to quit Crossfit. It was kinda pathetic.
Of course the doc ain't stupid, but at this point he thinks I am.
Doc: "So you had all that activity involving your shoulder but you think the pain came from sleeping wrong?"
Me: "Uh, yeaaaaaaaaahhhh. Yeah. Sleeping. That's it. Felt messed up after I woke up that . . . morning."
Doc: "Well how about you take the Motrin, ice your shoulder and also stop with any sort of shoulder involved movements at the gym until you feel better."
Damn it doc, why do you have to make so much sense? "Yeah, that sounds like a good plan."
Sigh.
So I go to the gym after work and tell Kristi about what the doc said and she asks me, "Wait, no shoulder movements? What are you doing here today?"
Ah crap. We had overhead squats.
Again I panic. Now Kristi was going to make me sit out of the WOD.
Me: "Really? Overhead squats . . . I don't think it'll be that bad."
Thankfully Kristi had a plan. Instead of the overhead squats/double-unders workout that everyone else did I did Annie again, which was 50-40-30-20-10 of double-unders/sit-ups.
I had a crappy time of 10:36 last week when I did it. Today I figured if I couldn't do the regular workout at least I can try to beat my time for this workout.
And I did. Came in at 10:08. Shaved off 28 seconds. I was stoked. Was hoping to come under 10 minutes though.
But I think this might be a good thing. See, I'll just start doing the workouts I did the week before and try to go for a better time. Plenty of motivation for that and it'll prevent me from thinking about how my shoulder is going to get weak as hell.
Oh yeah, then Bump comes into the gym and ties a tourniquet around my shoulder. I seriously thought my arm was going to fall off. Not looking forward to doing that again tomorrow.
Between him, Kristi and the new doc though I gotta admit I've got a good physical therapy team here. Here's hoping that the shoulder will be 100 percent again soon.
In the meantime, it's given me some material to write about again. Uhhh, thanks?
Anyway, take care gang,
Rod
BUT . . . I did something adult today. Amazingly enough, I made an appointment and went to the doctor.
The guy was in his 30's and his profile said he was a Penn State grad who had an "interest" in sports medicine. I was somewhat pleased to read that but didn't get too excited.
Sure enough he shows up and he's as skinny as a twig and doesn't look like he knows much about sports. But he's got a Penn State lanyard around his neck which tells me he follows college sports at least because you don't go to Penn State and wear a lanyard because you're not proud of your college sports team. I'm guessing the whole Pa Joe Paterno thing has caused him many a sleepless night.
Anyway, the doc moved my shoulder in all manner of directions trying to find the exact location of my pain. Then he made me feel like a complete idiot. Not on purpose but just because everything he suggested was pretty common sense:
Doc: "Well you don't have a tear but you definitely strained something in your shoulder. How did it feel after you iced it?"
Me: "Uhhhhh, iced it?"
Doc: "Well you said you were in pain, didn't you ice it afterwards?"
Me: "Uh, no. I was kinda hoping it would go away on it's own."
Doc: "Hmmm, what about some sort of anti-inflammatory? You try Motrin?"
Me: Silence. Then finally. "No. Was I supposed to?"
Doc: Silence. Then, "you should try Motrin. And icing your shoulder. Maybe for a couple of weeks and see how it feels."
Me: "Yeah, that sounds good. I'll do both."
Doc: "Do you know what you might have done that strained your shoulder?"
Me: "Well, we had a pretty busy week for shoulder workouts when I first felt pain several weeks ago. We had shoulder presses and over head squats and handstand push-ups." And then I quickly added, "But I think it really started hurting when after I slept at a weird angle."
See, that was a lie. I wasn't even sure why I lied, then I realized later I didn't want him to tell me that I had to quit Crossfit. It was kinda pathetic.
Of course the doc ain't stupid, but at this point he thinks I am.
Doc: "So you had all that activity involving your shoulder but you think the pain came from sleeping wrong?"
Me: "Uh, yeaaaaaaaaahhhh. Yeah. Sleeping. That's it. Felt messed up after I woke up that . . . morning."
Doc: "Well how about you take the Motrin, ice your shoulder and also stop with any sort of shoulder involved movements at the gym until you feel better."
Damn it doc, why do you have to make so much sense? "Yeah, that sounds like a good plan."
Sigh.
So I go to the gym after work and tell Kristi about what the doc said and she asks me, "Wait, no shoulder movements? What are you doing here today?"
Ah crap. We had overhead squats.
Again I panic. Now Kristi was going to make me sit out of the WOD.
Me: "Really? Overhead squats . . . I don't think it'll be that bad."
Thankfully Kristi had a plan. Instead of the overhead squats/double-unders workout that everyone else did I did Annie again, which was 50-40-30-20-10 of double-unders/sit-ups.
I had a crappy time of 10:36 last week when I did it. Today I figured if I couldn't do the regular workout at least I can try to beat my time for this workout.
And I did. Came in at 10:08. Shaved off 28 seconds. I was stoked. Was hoping to come under 10 minutes though.
But I think this might be a good thing. See, I'll just start doing the workouts I did the week before and try to go for a better time. Plenty of motivation for that and it'll prevent me from thinking about how my shoulder is going to get weak as hell.
Oh yeah, then Bump comes into the gym and ties a tourniquet around my shoulder. I seriously thought my arm was going to fall off. Not looking forward to doing that again tomorrow.
Between him, Kristi and the new doc though I gotta admit I've got a good physical therapy team here. Here's hoping that the shoulder will be 100 percent again soon.
In the meantime, it's given me some material to write about again. Uhhh, thanks?
Anyway, take care gang,
Rod
