
Had a good session with Jane (sports masseur) at lunchtime today and discovered the source of the weird pains in my shoulder/arm region. As soon as she started to work my right brachialis I experienced the same weird pains and a lot of discomfort. This muscle runs between my bicep and tricep and had a nasty knot which was fecking painful when Jane ironed it out. Even now the whole area is very tender and painful but it's such a relief to discover what I think is the final piece of the jigsaw. My neck muscles are now much better and my rotator cuff muslces are all in good shape so I need to persist with all of the previous stretches and add some new ones which Jane is going to send me. Also need to stretch the pecs more as they are still a bit tight. So all of these tight muscles seem to have added up to referred shoulder pain and that should be a warning as I reckon I stretch more than the average climber and yet I was still able to have a lot of tight muscle. So I think I will see Jane every 3 months for a maintenance massage to check me over and pro-actively seek out areas of tightness. £35 quid every 3 months will be better than the £140 I reckon I've spent on physio and massage so far and not too mention the 4-5 week period of stationary progress in my training.
The line has been drawn in the sand this week - I'm coming back stronger! COME ON!!
glad to hear you have got to bottum of the shoulder issue. Hope you get a clear run at your training now!
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Thanks Neil. Today I finally came close to feeling fit again. Was cranking hard with no ill effects. I'm back!
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