Is my athletic career over?
Before you say this, I will. I KNOW I should go to a doctor and my parent is in the process of setting up an appointment (i’m 16).I just wanted to know (from you bone experts here) what exactly is wrong… With that said…
Ok, so my sport of choice is basketball . I play everyday, but on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays I go to a rec center… where I play very vigorously. Anyway… to anticipate the physicalness of the games i’m gonna play…. I stretch out for about an hour before actually going there.
I think it was about March or something where I was doing this thing to increase my range of motion. I would rotate each one of my arms like how a softball pitcher throws a ball, only very fast. Anyway, when I was doing this to my left arm I felt a very painfull pop. My reaction to this was . The pain went away fast and there didn’t seem to be any bad results of the sensation…. so I continued playing.
Then this sensation started coming. I can’t really describe it well, but i’ll do so to the best of my ability. Like… when I rolled my shoulder… there would be this “popping” sensation (I felt) somwhere in my collarbone and sternum. It wasn’t really painfull, but discomforting in the sense like “I don’t like the “feel” of that.”
Everytime I’d play ball again or wear my bookbag, the “popping” sensation would become increasingly worse. But again… i’d pay no mind.
But yesterday after I came back… the “popping” was on the border of being very painfull!!! I think figured out where it’s coming from. I think there’s a break in the area where my clavicle (collarbone) joins the top of my sternum . This is on the left side of my body.
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I think it might have something to do with the manubrium and the clavicula. Maybe the clavicula is off center? Will this end my athletic career? Will it require surgery?
Thanks to you for reading all this… and hopefully i’ll get some good replies (i’m really freaked out here).
I’ve been lookin up some of the medical terms and came up with “sternoclavicular injury”. But it really doesn’t pain and I can move my shoulder fine. It’s just that popping sensation is REALLY annoying and uncomfortable.
Replies would be nice!
(I stress again that the bone movement isn’t painful at all (for the most part), but it’s very uncomfortable and I can definately feel and hear it).
2 comments
DSA
Painful pops are never a good thing – usually indicating a structural injury – you definitely should get your shoulder checked out. Rehab of the shoulder and AC and SC joints needs to be done properly and throughly. A friend of mine separated his AC joint and still cannot bench press more than a third of the weight he could prior to the injury – that was over a year ago. What I also find interesting is your one hour stretching before playing basketball. I don’t think this is advisable. You are gonna seriously stress cold tissues, static stretches are also going to dull your neuromuscular peformance when playing a sport that requires bullistic movement and dynamic movement – 60 minutes of static stretches are not going to help. Might I also suggest that the type of fast movement you were performing when you injured the shoulder may have contributed by creating a shearing of tissues around the joint thus injuring the joint itself. That said you have to match your warmup to the activity you are doing – how many sprinters do you see performing static hamstring stretches prior to a race? You’ve got to use common sense in these circumstances, seek help from professional trainers and ignore bad info from amateurs!!
jessie04
i’ve had the same problem for a while, but it hasn’t gotten any worse. I was a very active soccer goalie and this injury never stopped me from doing anything. (that included diving on that arm for a ball just a bit out of reach) If the injury is treated properly, then there is no reason you should lose your athletic career. See what the doctor has to say and keep an open mind. Sometimes, the difference between playing and watching from the sidelines can be your state of mind. hope this helps.