Hey guys...I did a good one to my arm last night.  Being as I've always been a pretty durable guy, my injuries have been few and far between.  So this is a new one on me.  Anyone know what might have happened?

I was at my martial arts class and one guy was pulling me down.  I was going to land on my head, so I put our my arm to land on my elbow and roll off it that way.  Well, I guess I wasn't lined up properly when I hit the ground because I screwed up my shoulder.

Last night I still could move my shoulder in all directions and it hurt a little bit but this morning...holy shit!  If I try to raise my arm up over my head I get a bad ass pain right where my deltoid attaches to my humerous.  So I'm hoping it's just swelled up.  I just popped a couple advil and let's hope that helps.  Meantime anyone know what may have happened??

Another guy in my martial arts class had a similar injury, but he had actually torn his tendon right off the bone.  They had to cut his shoulder open and put a couple screws in his arm and tie the tendon to those screws for the tendon to reattach itself.  Nasty stuff.

Play safe!!

-Nick Viejo.

Had a similar injury myself (from similar training) about a year ago, turned out to be a mild (thankfully) rotator cuff injury. Lay off of it for a a few days, remember that Advil is your friend and see a doctor ASAP if it continues after that. Real easy to reinjure if it's the r.c. - trust me.

Yup...I have been eating Advil all day...1 every 4 or 5 hours and now I have the full range of motion back with only a little pain, so it appears that it's not a permanent injury.  I'm going to go easy on it for a few days and let it heal up.  No sense in aggravating it.

Most of the people I know who have been doing this sort of thing longer than I all say the same thing: "If you get injured let it heal [b]completely[/b] before stressing your body again, or you will just have the injury that much longer."  I hope to be back to 100% within a week or so.  We'll see.

-Nick Viejo.

See a doctor.

If you won't, for some bizarre reason:
RICE
Maintain that range of motion.

IMHO