Posted: 2/19/2009 6:10:47 AM EDT
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My daughter plays basket ball. Her team is playing in the district championship tonight at 6 pm. She is the starting center. This morning she woke up in tears, her shoulder is hurting. Its so bad she can not walk. She is about as tough as nails so I'm certain the pain is pretty intense. I gave her some Motrin and a heating pad and have made her sit up. She says it hurts to breathe which says to me she might have a pinched nerve. Any advice? She has to go to school for at least 1/2 a day in order to play tonight so I need to make a decision to take her to the doctor right away.
Queen *ETA* She did say there was no injury to recall but they have been working on her spin around hook shot in practice and her shoulders did hurt from fatigue last night |
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Your daughter is in excruciating pain and you are asking if you should take her to the doctor or not?  Anyway, I used to get something like that, it might be slightly out of joint and just need to be rotated or popped back in. If that's what it is, the pain will go away almost instantly, but manipulating it to relieve the pressure in is painfull. If it's a torn rotator cuff, she would remember how it happened. They usually happen when you try to catch yourself from a hard fall or something. Cortizone ftw. |
Duh!
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I actually got woke up on Tuesday morning around 3AM because my shoulder hurt something fierce. It has been hurting since then (right shoulder right close to the neck).
I grabbed some muscle relaxers and narcotics (left over from a strained back a couple of months ago) and took those to get me through the night last night. It is still a little stiff but much better. Mine felt like a stiff neck (like when you sleep in the wrong position) but it is in the shoulder and does not go away in a few minutes. Take her in and get it looked at, at the worst she gets the happy pills and at the best they tell her to rest it for a couple of days. |
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Rotator cuff injury, or bicep tendonitis.
Ice packs AND doctor. NO heating pad. Rotator cuff has layers of muscle within a contained space. The pain can be from swelling within that contained space. Heat makes swelling worse, causing more pain. NOT a doctor, just a part-time fitness trainer <––––––––––––––- |