Shoulder deep in shoulder rehab.
My shoulder injury is day by day right now. Some days are great, others not so good. I have come to accept that, while the injury is probably nothing serious in the grand scheme of things, it is going to take some work to get it back to 100%. As a result, I have come to the rather painful conclusion that I will very likely have to miss the tournament at the beginning of October. Although I suspect I will be up for it by then, as of right now I can’t roll without aggravating the injury. I can work soft technique, but hard rolls are to much for it right now. I don’t fee like I will be able to perform at the level I would want to in the tournament. What’s more, if I am committed to doing it, I will be more likely to rush my rehab and re-injure the shoulder.
The upside of this is that I can still focus on working for my blue belt, and, I can work a No-Gi class back into my schedule again. If I am not going to do the tournament I don’t have to work Gi as hard. I like No-Gi classes and it will be interesting to see how Cote’s training is coming along for the big title shot next month.
For now I am working on shoulder rehab. I found an interesting protocol on YouTube that I am using. It uses a lot of the standard stuff, rubber band rotator cuff rotations, etc., but it also has some other stuff I have not seen. Whats more, I like the workload and frequency. This is the video below, and I will post a link to the page I found it on in the sidebar. Thanks to Diesel Crew for providing it.
The Diesel Crew video is great, but I do have some concern about doing the deep pushups (on blocks) – I’m not sure that I would want to put that much strain on an injured shoulder.
You might want to take a look at the Rotater – http://therotater.com/seeit.html
It is used by 5 NFL teams and a bunch of colleges. Medco just added it to the line of equipment that they provide to athletic trainers and we may have a similar type of distributor in Canada soon.
I hope your shoulder gets well soon. I’ve injured mine on several occasions. Some injuries bad and some not-so-bad, but all of them are slow to heal and frustrating beyond words. Take the time now and don’t rush it.