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Week 5 Blog Post10/29/2023 This week I went back to see Dr. Shugart. We went and I told her everything about what happened at the tournament. She examined my shoulder again and said that it was inflamed but she didn’t think that an additional injury had occurred. She prescribed me to go to physical therapy with Kevin at “Aware Physical Therapy.” Nothing else happened for the rest of the week. I wasn’t allowed to do anything with my shoulder because they thought that I would end up damaging it worse. I continued my week as normal as possible but was in a lot of pain throughout the week. I was taking as much medication as possible, I iced my shoulder, and I heated my shoulder. I was supposed to have another tournament this coming weekend but again I was now written out of all sports. Back to exactly where I started. This was very hard. I don’t understand how I finished my whole entire volleyball season and then as soon as I started playing softball again all the problems and pain came back. A big concern of Dr. Shugart and Kevin the physical trainer were with how I threw in softball. They wanted to eventually test and compare my volleyball swing to my softball throw. Another concern of theirs was because softball is outside which means it’s a lot colder and weather will affect my shoulder. The cold will cause the tendonitis to flare up and become “defensive.” When it is “defensive”, my shoulder tenses up not allowing me to have full range of motion so that I don’t injure other aspects of my shoulder more. It puts up a guard within my shoulder of not allowing the muscles, bones, and ligaments to rub together when I throw. However, because of that guard not allowing those things to rub together I physically can’t throw the ball but so far. The inflammation and tendonitis in my shoulder has caused all of those aspects to be on top of each other or rubbing against each other with any movement in my shoulder. If that guard keeps that rubbing from happening but in order to throw that rubbing has to happen then I won’t be allowed to or I’ll have a very short throwing distance. If all of their concerns about my shoulder revolve around softball they don’t know if I’m going to be allowed to play softball again. Only time will tell with that but they just wanted me to know every possibility. Even if I’m allowed to play softball again they fully believe that I shouldn’t play two sports at the same time anymore.
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