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Steve Reece, MD Moose Herring, MD Sports Medicine Division Advanced Orthopedics

Recognizing Swimmer’s Shoulder : Causes, Treatments, & Return to Endurance Sports Following Injury. Steve Reece, MD Moose Herring, MD Sports Medicine Division Advanced Orthopedics February 1, 2014.

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Steve Reece, MD Moose Herring, MD Sports Medicine Division Advanced Orthopedics

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  1. Recognizing Swimmer’s Shoulder: Causes, Treatments, & Return to Endurance Sports Following Injury Steve Reece, MD Moose Herring, MD Sports Medicine Division Advanced Orthopedics February 1, 2014

  2. Recognizing Swimmer’s Shoulder: Causes, Treatments, & Return to Endurance Sports Following Injury • Anatomy review • Swimmer’s shoulder injury etiology • Diagnosis • Treatment plan Reece, MD

  3. Shoulder Anatomy Reece, MD

  4. What goes wrong in swimmers? • Shoulder is highly mobile joint • Overtraining • Fatigue • Hypermobility • Stroke technique • Weakness • Tightness • Previous injury

  5. Diagnosis • Swimmer’s shoulder not really a diagnosis • Rotator cuff tendinitis • Overuse injury • Rotator cuff impingement ? + instability • Entrapment of cuff/bursa with overhead activity • Labral pathology • Tear of cartilage on socket side of joint

  6. Treatment Summary • Pain relief • NSAIDs, cortisone injection, avoid painful action • Cross train to ensure fitness • Don’t let CV fitness restrict the RTP • Regain full range of motion • Restore scapular control/function • Restore rotator cuff strength • Restore technique • Return to swimming

  7. Swimming Mechanics • Body rotation • Symmetric body rotation via bilateral breathing technique • Flat spine axis yields arms swinging around side w recovery • Excess IR causes cuff injury, impingement

  8. Swimming Mechanics • Hand position into water • Hand pitch outward, thumb first entry • Excessive IR again leading to cuff overuse/impingement

  9. Swimming Mechanics • Swimming posture • Often poor posture from daily activity • Leads to severe cross at the front of the stroke and impingement • Stretch anteriorly, strengthen posterioryly • Think shoulders back, chest out • YTWL

  10. Swimming Mechanics • Catch and pull through • Dropped elbow and/or straight arm leads to significant increase in shoulder load • This high elbow catch and pull uses the larger chest/back muscles instead of solely shoulder

  11. Technique Summary • A good swimming technique will have the following factors in place, consistently: 1. Bilateral breathing for at least 80% of your training sessions. There are many times (especially in the open water) when unilateral breathing is the better option, but for a healthy, balanced freestyle stroke technique, bilateral breathing is the way to go in training. 2. Good, symmetrical body rotation. This can be worked upon through a range of different body rotation drills, often employing fins for support. 3. Hand entry into the water is finger tip first, not thumb first despite what you may have been taught when you learnt to swim! 4. Avoiding midline cross over at the front of the stroke. 5. Developing and maintaining of good upper body posture. 6. Targeting a high elbow (bent arm) catch and pull through. http://www.swimsmooth.com/injury.php#ixzz2qlnyEEmP

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