Am I Injured or Just Ill?
After Monday night’s tough pool session, I woke up on Tuesday with a bit of a stiff neck, and a little pain on its left side. By the end of the day, I was getting pain across my left shoulder, which got worse, and spread to the back of my left arm, and a little down my back.
It feels a bit like the back pain I had about ten years ago, when I seriously wrenched my latissimus dorsi in bending & twisting to put an 8-foot fence post onto a trolley at the builder’s yard. That had me more or less motionless, propped up in a chair for the thick end of a week.
I think that I may have strained / pulled / torn something toward the top of my left trapezius. This is now spasming & setting off something in the deltoid and infraspinatus.
Or I might just have some sort of heavy cold thing coming to get me (could even be man-flu!), as the pain is very similar to the aches & shivers kind of sensation you get with a real humdinger of a cold.
Whatever the cause, I spent yesterday in a so-sore-that-I-can-hardly-think straight fog, which was only lightened by maximal doses of ibuprofen. (So perhaps the cycling wasn’t such a hot idea.) And tonight I’m ducking out of the swimming session. Of course, the people in the grown-up’s lane I’ve just been promoted up to will assume that I just can’t take the pace. And the way I feel now, they may have a point 
Maybe tomorrow if things are no better, I’d better head off to Swiss Physio in Tynemouth. Actually, scratch that - I’ve just phoned and got an appointment to see ‘em on Saturday morning.
Have you considered getting a massage? Is that your plan at Swiss Physio? I bet they could work that pain out.
Hurts bad enough to go to the physio. If they say that I just need a massage, and they’ll do it for me, that’s fine. When it comes down to it, I’m not qualified to make the decision!
I’d go see the Swiss Physio and see what they say. I can’t hurt and you don’t want to continue to train if there is a strain.
This is coming from a person who has ignored pain and paid the price of being side lined. Hope you feel better soon.
I need to know which points that be contact with the chair in normal at correct setting for ( the back & pelvic )
yours
mina
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Hi Mina - thanks for stopping by. I’m not sure I understand your question - could you re-phrase it?