Tennis shoulder pain and treatment
During tennis lessons, you can have a shoulder injury, fall, collision, or improper technique, or over-activity for a long time. If left untreated early, properly can lead to chronic pain, stiffness, or muscle wasting, loss of shoulder function.
Shoulder joint is a joint exercise quite a lot of movement for most of the activities of the above so it is very easy to play tennis.
You may have a shoulder injury when playing tennis
Shoulder pain is very common in tennis players, and is often a chronic shoulder pain. Chronic shoulder pain is caused by prolonged injuries due to:
- Acute injuries that are not treated or treated improperly cause long lasting and difficult to heal
- Injuries due to overloading are small injuries, which are caused by excessive exercise, repeated prolonged, accumulate after a period of training or competition that the body can not recover in time.
- Old injury has not recovered, recurrent chronic injury.
- Related to shoulder joint degradation: Arthritis due to age.
Common lesions that cause chronic shoulder pain:
1. Stretch, tear ligaments joints:
Because of a falling injury that tears the ligaments-articulation, or by repeated minor injuries, stretching the ligaments-joints is no longer firm.
2. Inflammation, tendon rupture
This is the main cause of acute and chronic pain.
The tendon group consists of four tendons around the shoulder joint. This tendon group is very thin but very important, responsible for almost all activity of the shoulder joint. Hence, if swelling or tendon pain causes pain, and loss of or loss of movement of the shoulder, if left untreated it becomes chronically difficult to treat.
3. Torn veins
Reason:
Aches tendonitis or rupture due to overexpression of shoulder joints over a long period of time, too heavy, or fall or injury to the ground, or torn by aging in older people.
- Common in tennis due to strong force, wide shoulder range and repetitive motion. Also met in such subjects as: badminton, volleyball, swimming, weightlifting
- Common Causes:
+ Overplay
+ Not started properly.
Physical muscle strength is not enough, or the body is not healthy when playing.
+ Technique is not right for overstretching or shoulder rotation such as tussle, tumbling or tennis in tennis, or smashing, badminton, serving or pounding in volleyball, dispatch or lift
+ Tick-borne synovitis: Due to the high hand movement over the head, the pouch is prone to rubbing, sometimes swelling, and painful fluid.
Evolution and complications
For shoulder pain after falling, traumas, heavy or painful tenderness if not treated properly and timely, shoulder pain will get worse. Later, can hurt a lot, can not move the shoulder. When shoulder pain lasts, it will make you lose your favorite tennis game, or lead to complications of joint stiffness, muscular atrophy, loss of motor function, disturbance of life, general collapse, chronic insomnia.
How to deal with shoulder injuries
If you notice deformed shoulders, severe pain, you may have broken the bone or dislocated the shoulder. You must go to a specialized hospital for X-rays, and get emergency treatment.
- When you have moderate shoulder pain, you should:
1. Should do
- Stop playing
Apply your shoulder pain 2-3 times a day, every 15 minutes.
- Hang up if you have a lot of pain.
- Exercises to stretch the shoulder muscles.
- Stay at least 3 -7 days. During rest, gently move the shoulder joint movements without pain
- Taking anti-inflammatory drugs.
- If after 1 week still have pain with the above treatment, should see a specialist sports shoulder or sports injuries to diagnose cause and correct treatment, to restore the movement of the joints. few.
You should rest at least 3-7 days to recover health and prepare the best spirit for the next tennis match
2. Should not do:
- Massage hot oil or alcohol into your shoulder pain, because the heat will increase swelling and blood clotting in the tendon wound.
- Improper fixing will make tearing worse.
Trying to continue playing may aggravate the disease because of a heavier tendon rupture, and more blood.
Specific treatment:
After a proper evaluation and evaluation, you will be referred by a specialist:
- Take XQ, or MRI (magnetic resonance) to find the exact cause of shoulder pain.
- Prescription medications help relax muscles, blood bruising, and inflammation in place.
- Assisted physical therapy
- Guide you recovery exercises and return to sports play depending on the stage of the disease.
- Injections of steroids containing steroid inflammation.
If severe or recurrent, the doctor recommends a colonoscopy to remove the fibrotic tissue in the ribs, smooth the tendon back, or retract the tendon and cartilage.
Some preventive measures for shoulder injury and sports recovery after injury recovery:
- Increase muscle strength, increase flexibility of the shoulder muscles by stretching exercises.
- Physical strength and endurance.
- Start-warm up thoroughly before playing.
- Technical adjustments of the movements for the standard
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