Day Seventy- Shoulder Injury

Hi everyone!

Today was a tough day today. Since Thursday when I had my assessment, I had done something to my right shoulder that really aggravated it to the point that I could barely move it today.

On Thursday, when I was having my assessment done, I was doing bench press when I heard something pop in my rhomboid area (near the shoulder blade) as well as clicking in my shoulder every time I would go down & come back up. It wasn't really bothering me the rest of that day, but on Friday when I was doing upper body & I was doing fly, my right arm couldn't go back past my shoulder without a lot of pain.

I went into the office & had my husband check out my back, and he felt that I had a rib head out. Now in the past, with car accidents, being thrown off of a horse & even getting a bad adjustment from a chiropractor (before I met my husband), I have always had problems with my rib heads. My husband says that once you have rib heads that go out, they can easily go back out. If you have never had a rib head go out, you are lucky. If you have, you know how excruciatingly painful it it.

So, I got my adjustment, went home & took it easy to keep it from going back out again. On Saturday, since it was my free day, I made sure that I took it easy. I had a muscle knot that felt like a size of an orange in my right shoulder that started to get bigger as the day went on. So, I got a massage & man did she work out a lot of knots that I had in my calves & right shoulder. It took a lot of it out. But I did something stupid after my massage. I should of let my shoulder rest the rest of the day, but instead, I took the box that my daughter's desk was in, lifted it out of the van & carried it into her room (completely across the house), and put it together. That was a dumb idea!!!

We went on to game night last night & I know that the beers that I drank was really numbing the pain!! But the next morning, I woke up, & my right shoulder was in excruciating pain. I could not move it without sharp pain in my shoulder/rhomboid area. I needed to get my workout in, but the weather has been terrible today & I didn't want to wait until 1 pm to get it in. So, I got onto Exercise TV & my husband & I did yoga, especially to get stretching into that right shoulder.

After doing yoga, my husband decided to palpate my spine & noticed that I had another rib head out as well as C-1 being out as well. So he did another adjustment and got it and gave me strict instructions to let my shoulder rest for the rest of today. So, I did very little, barely moving my right arm/shoulder & I ever took a huge nap to rest it.

So know, I am sitting in the living room with my hubby, watching the Vikings/Saints game, my shoulder is feeling better, but if I try and move it a lot, it still hurts. I am waiting to see what it will be like in the morning & if I need to rest it some more or at least limit my use of it. I'll have to let Renee know tomorrow when I meet with her.

Here is my food journal entry for today:

Breakfast- 10:45 am
Eating for Life Ham, Egg & Cheese Sandwich on Whole Wheat Bread (substituted roast beef since we were out of ham)
Hashbrowns
Coffee

Lunch- didn't eat since I ate breakfast so late

Afternoon Snack- 3:00 pm
Gala Apple
Water

Dinner- 8:45 pm
Tomato Soup
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Water

So, I am watching this nail-biting game, & tomorrow is upper body. Hopefully I will be able to workout all the way, but will modify if I need to.