Shoulder Tendinitis

Joek510 · Post by **Joek510** » February 6th, 2008, 8:37 pm

Well just got back from my doctor and he tells me I have acute shoulder tendinitis thru my bicep muscle, Lots of Aleve and anti inflamitories. and (6) weeks of rest.
First time with this ailment, ugh!!!!!!.
What bums me out is the question if this is something that is direct result of rowing or the other type exercises i do like pushups and pull ups. I love my rowing and miss it so.
Has annyone else experienced this and how long does it take to recover if ever

Thanks

Joe

sylviarc · Post by **sylviarc** » July 16th, 2008, 11:29 pm

Yeah I had it too. But mine was in both my wrists. I row on both sides of the boat and I just held the oar to tight. I got braces but hardly ever used them I missed a season of rowing but I picked up another sport water polo. I am back to rowing now but it took me longer than it should have because I got mono after I had tendinitis. I would recommend swimming exercises to build it up as well as playing in sand but I am not sure how well it would work in that is is your shoulder not your wrist. Also when you start rowing again loosen your grip (you will get more blisters) and try to not row with your shoulders or your back. Stick out you belly and sit as tall as you can keeping your shoulders aliened. It will be weird and exaggeratedness at first but it worked for me! I am back on the water and erging and loving it. and the time off the water made me forget my bad habits so I got to start over again except with the mussel.

korkiley · Post by **korkiley** » September 28th, 2008, 5:15 pm

Hi Joe,

I was browsing through old topics and found yours. I have the same problem at present, although, I'm guessing my tendinitis is much milder than yours. I'm training to do a marathon and the only time that the shoulder caused much of a problem was when I was doing strength workouts which required turning up the resistance and doing intervals of 10 strokes at max effort. At this point, several months later and still in PT, I have almost no problem rowing yet the problem doesn't go away. I have a feeling that it won't go away until I complete my marathon on October 26 and reel way back on my rowing.

I too wonder about pullups and pushups which I refuse to give up doing completely. Try doing them very slowly. I find that this seems to tweak the shoulder far less than when I use a faster pace.

Good luck!

Kor

yoda · Post by **yoda** » September 28th, 2008, 7:51 pm

I've had both of my shoulders replaced and one of the recommendations that the therapist gave me was to back off of pushing exercises (bench, pushups, etc.) and make sure that when doing pulling exercises (rowing with weight, pullups, chinup, etc.) to get full range of motion. And to never do presses behind the neck. Mind you, he didn't say stop doing the pushing exercises, he just said back off of them. Since I'm a firm believer in Super Slow Exercises, I would say that doing them slowly is the best way.

Yoda

yahooyellow · Post by **yahooyellow** » October 1st, 2008, 6:24 pm

i had it too, i got mine from doing an intense chest workout and then carrying boats over my head with too little people helping the next day. How did it happen to you?

It bothered for a really long time because i didnt take care of it from the start. Eventually i took a summer off from working out and it healed. Listen to your doctor and rest, slowly in a few weeks start doing some arm circles and shoulder exercises with just your arms building up to 5 lb weights. If you can avoid carrying boats try to as it can aggravate it.