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Week 2 Blog Post10/8/2023 This week I had a doctor's appointment with Dr. Shugart at Novant Health. Before this appointment my shoulder was just going through the normal amount of pain with a consistent throbbing feeling. Once she started messing with my shoulder it became super inflamed and aggravated. During the appointment I did not have a full range of motion but only a small percent. My shoulder was super tight while trying to move in certain directions which didn’t allow me to move it much. It was also super weak when it did allow me to finally move it. I couldn’t hold many of the flexibility tests because after just a few seconds my whole arm would shake and my shoulder would give out. If I could actually hold it in one position when she grabbed or pushed on my arm to add weight my shoulder would give out again. At one point in the appointment she told me to sit up straight while she looked at my back. My right shoulder was so inflamed that it was visibly more swollen than the left. My right shoulder was squishy from tissue damage and fluid in my shoulder. I had to take X-rays during this appointment so that I would be able to get an MRI scheduled. Shugart wrote me out of volleyball and all other physical activities until I got the MRI results back. A lot of things were up in the air about what I did but they thought it was a torn rotator cuff or a torn labrum. At this point they already knew that it was extreme bicep tendonitis with inflammation and tissue damage. That was all they were hoping for because in this case even though it isn’t perfect it’s still the best case. This week I was instructed to take aleve during both the morning and at night to decrease the inflammation. For the rest of the week I went to see Anothy in the trainer's room right before practice everyday to ice and or heat my shoulder. Anothy didn’t want to start any physical therapy on my shoulder until my MRI was done so that my shoulder could deflame as much as possible. Inflammation in my shoulder would cause the image to be blurry. So again we didn’t do any PT this week to get a more clear result from the MRI. We have my MRI scheduled for next Tuesday and until then it’s just a waiting game. I went about the rest of my week after the doctor's appointment as normal as possible.
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