PrestigeDave45
Semi-Pro
Injured my shoulder about 7/8 months ago. Whilst negotiating a forehand volley off a violently hit forehand drive my shoulder tendon tore. I retired from the match and took a short break from tennis. Week or two.
On my return it was obvious to me I hadn't healed completely. I have continued to play though and over the next few months felt a relative soreness whilst serving. Shanks and overhead movement very painful.
I then stopped playing for 6 weeks but immediately undertook resistance band exercises and some light gym work. Went back to the game. Had weird feeling like a tiny elastic stretching in my shoulder being stretched.
Was this the tendon repairing? Anyway, after a while the pain returned. I feel in retrospect that
I started exercising too soon post my own diagnosis and should not have done any shoulder exercises until the shoulder had healed. ie. full movement sans pain.
Finally bit the bullet once the tournament season was over and went for an mri. The consultant told me I had the equivalent of a fracture in my shoulder tendon. The recovery he said will take six weeks. He advised no overhead tennis movement and apart from that he said the shoulder should heal itself. His opinion was it would be ok to knock up but no serving or overhead motions.
I have just completed the first week with no tennis. At first my shoulder felt weird and still does in many ways but now I think it was the swelling leaving the shoulder and now a week later I am left with the shoulder as it is supposed to be except for the tendon fracture. There is pain when i full extend my right arm at 90 degrees and twist my hand in a 180 degree motion. At the extremes of the twist there is pain.
This time Im doing what the doc says.
I have another mri in 10 days to see how the tendon is progressing.
I have looked up numerous sites and references regarding this sort of injury. This I did before but if I'm honest I never actually gave the tendon time to heal.
Packing up tennis for 6 weeks mid summer was no go for me until it just became impossible to play (but also impossible to not)
Anyone got experience of this? Im confident there are loads who have navigated this one.
Some advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
On my return it was obvious to me I hadn't healed completely. I have continued to play though and over the next few months felt a relative soreness whilst serving. Shanks and overhead movement very painful.
I then stopped playing for 6 weeks but immediately undertook resistance band exercises and some light gym work. Went back to the game. Had weird feeling like a tiny elastic stretching in my shoulder being stretched.
Was this the tendon repairing? Anyway, after a while the pain returned. I feel in retrospect that
I started exercising too soon post my own diagnosis and should not have done any shoulder exercises until the shoulder had healed. ie. full movement sans pain.
Finally bit the bullet once the tournament season was over and went for an mri. The consultant told me I had the equivalent of a fracture in my shoulder tendon. The recovery he said will take six weeks. He advised no overhead tennis movement and apart from that he said the shoulder should heal itself. His opinion was it would be ok to knock up but no serving or overhead motions.
I have just completed the first week with no tennis. At first my shoulder felt weird and still does in many ways but now I think it was the swelling leaving the shoulder and now a week later I am left with the shoulder as it is supposed to be except for the tendon fracture. There is pain when i full extend my right arm at 90 degrees and twist my hand in a 180 degree motion. At the extremes of the twist there is pain.
This time Im doing what the doc says.
I have another mri in 10 days to see how the tendon is progressing.
I have looked up numerous sites and references regarding this sort of injury. This I did before but if I'm honest I never actually gave the tendon time to heal.
Packing up tennis for 6 weeks mid summer was no go for me until it just became impossible to play (but also impossible to not)
Anyone got experience of this? Im confident there are loads who have navigated this one.
Some advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
