Post injury pain

itboffin

Since my recent shoulder injury and subsequent surgery i've been getting sharp shooting pains in my neck, It tends to mostly go away if I stretch my hams and itbs but i'm lazy and hate stretching almost as much as I hate cucumber.

Is it just tight muscles or a post surgery FACT?

PS. yes my physio did say I'd need to keep stretching but the exercises were boring.

Stevo_666

itboffin wrote:

Since my recent shoulder injury and subsequent surgery i've been getting sharp shooting pains in my neck, It tends to mostly go away if I stretch my hams and itbs but i'm lazy and hate stretching almost as much as I hate cucumber.

Is it just tight muscles or a post surgery FACT?

PS. yes my physio did say I'd need to keep stretching but the exercises were boring.

ITB, how long ago was your op and what did they do? I had a hernia op just over 2 weeks ago and it seems post op pain is pretty normal for that and for most things where they slice you up. I only stopped getting my pain a couple of days ago.

PS: look on the bright side, shooting pains in the neck are better than where I got them :shock:

itboffin

Just before xmas and it was rotor cuff surgery, i'm still amazed at how painful, stiff and sore i was afterwards, however at least my shoulder stays in the socket now :shock:

It sucks getting old.

Stevo_666

Yup, repairs to the bodywork will be a normal feature of middle aged life I guess...

If your op is 6 months gone then you might want to see a pain specialist. I'm no expert, but the shooting pain in a part of your body where you didn't have the op could suggest some sort of problem with nerves being damaged or trapped in some way?

Fyi the surgeon warned me that chronic post hernia op pain was a risk. Maybe just covering their ar$es but seems like its not uncommon for several types of op.

itboffin

Yeh actually it's more like trap pain on the side of the injury so it could be related, that whole area tightened up pretty good, i should have asked my hospital physio if she did house calls

rjsterry

itboffin wrote:

Since my recent shoulder injury and subsequent surgery i've been getting sharp shooting pains in my neck, It tends to mostly go away if I stretch my hams and itbs but i'm lazy and hate stretching almost as much as I hate cucumber.

Is it just tight muscles or a post surgery FACT?

PS. yes my physio did say I'd need to keep stretching but the exercises were boring.

Aside from what Stevo 666 said, I'd guess it's a bit of both. Who ever heard of interesting stretching? But I'm starting to realise I need to get into the habit myself. No surgery or injuries, but most Saturdays, I wake up with sore and stiff legs and I can only see it getting worse if I don't do anything about it. So, now I just need to find a way of making it interesting :roll:

itboffin

Fook me lad I hope you had private browsing enabled when you searched for that pic of Greg66 mum :P

rjsterry

itboffin wrote:

Fook me lad I hope you had private browsing enabled when you searched for that pic of Greg66 mum :P

Would you believe that I stumbled across that one when I was checking the spelling of souplesse? Nah, thought not.

mudcow007

itboffin wrote:

it was rotor cuff surgery

the docs wanted to do this to me a year or so back due to "subluxation" of both of my shoulders, i was put off when they said you can get reduced movement of shoulders....so i said to them, "for that reason....im out"!

basically if i lift my arms above my head, both shoulders pop out of their joints, it use to be my party piece until it started to ache for hours afterwards

SimonAH

Be careful with neck / shoulders - a weird set of interconnecting things can happen. Gets complex and long winded but I had a ridiculous issue two years ago that left me unable to sleep in a bed for three months and in quite excruciating pain - root cause was a physiotherapist massaging out a vicious knot by my shoulderblade. This caused variously, neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, wrist pain and pain in the fingers of one hand - the whole thing is an absolute web, pull one string and bells can go off in all sorts of unexpected areas.

I still have repercussions from this today but control it with scapular slides which seem to work almost instantly for me.

sketchley

It took me at least 6 months to be fully recovered from Gall Bladder removal last year. Went back to doctors to complain about still having pain after 3 month to be told it could take up to a year to be fully healed.

Just been to doctors about pain in left heel, apparently I have Policeman's Heel (Plantar Fasciitis). This will take a minimum of 6 weeks to get better maybe longer. Fortunately it doesn't hurt when I ride.

Doctor said you have to be realistic about this thing they take time.

rjsterry

Have done a bit of stretching this evening, as I had a fairly mashy ride home. Will try to keep it up and see if it has any noticeable results in a week or so.