Hi! Doug: > Dislocations, once they occur, make it very difficult if not impossible > to regain the former strength that helped prevent less forcefully caused > dislocations. Best to avoid all injury in the first place. Yipp! While I was 15 or 16, I completeley dislocated my right shoulder, by playing basketball! It takes several years (4-5) until my problems came down with this "small" dislocations, a point where my shoulder is still "in" but canīt move and is fixed backwards. This dislocation and the fear for a new one while I might be paddling WW, was one of the reasons for me to stop whitewater padling a few years later. Meanwhile Iīm 30 and there still is the fear and the "feeling" that it might happen again, if I donīt pay attention to avoid some special moves and wrong kind of pressure. All the time this fear is somewhere in your mind and you know this little devil waits for your mistake... By playing canoepolo, thereīre had been few moments with deep and wide arm bracing where I could feel how close I was to a new dislocation and the only way was to hold the strength (by msucles) on the shoulder by the brace, so nothing happened. Paddling is a great way to avoid shoulder dislocations also. You build up this delta muscle on the shoulder and so far this muscle got its basic strength, so dislocations are less probable. happy padling - Jochen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 30 2002 - 05:55:42 PDT
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