here's the story: about 4 months ago played volleyball for about 20 minutes, serving overhand a few times, then played some pick-up basketball. for the next few days my shoulder was aching and stiff, well flash forward to now, the pain in my shoulder is still there only in the front anterior deltoid region and only when i move it a certain way namely suppinating, arm straight overhead going farther back, etc.
now knowing it wasn't going away, i finally finally went to a sports medicine doctor who did 30 minutes of moving it this way and that way, took x-rays and didn't notice any tears or calcium deposits or anything, but diagnosed me as having rotator cuff syndrome, which i had never heard of before, supposedly a very bad inflammation of the shoulder girdle and deltoid muscle caused by an impingement due to various factors ( the weird volleyball serving motion and me tweaking it weirdly, me not warming the shoulder up at all, my age (42) and perhaps the way my shoulder inside is built.
anyway, taking huge dosage of ibuprofen (800 mgs) 3 times a day for 10 days, then 1-2 for the next 3 weeks, and doing about 10 different rotator cuff exercises 4 times a week, then have to see the doctor again first week of november. if i still have pain will have a cortisone shot and continue to do the exercises for another month and then see what happens?
haven't of of course been able to workout at all and hopefully this "rotator cuff syndrome" is not a recurring chronic worry for the rest of my days!
i just can't/couldn't believe i could hurt my shoulder this badly playing volleyball and basketball for only 30 minutes or so! granted, i didn't stretch or warm up but then again it's not like i'm 90 years old and havent' worked out in 50 years or played hours and hours of volleyball and basketball that day!
this sucks! anyway, any thoughts guys?!