Shoulder bursitis

April 21st, 2008 at 10:15 · Filed Under Call Me a Geek, Injuries, Karate, Software Development, Sports 

I had shoulder pain since March. Initially, it began at my left shoulder after waking up one morning. The pain was not too serious until recently (for the past two weeks), I had lousy sleep. Both of my shoulders were aching and often woke me up in the middle of the night. I thought it was some kind of spraining and it would go away after good rest with less training. But it seems to self-exacerbate. The pain was getting more intense every night.

Last night, I read articles about shoulder bursitis or rotator cuff injuries and treatment. After reading these articles, I decided to give it a try. I applied Fastum gel (Ketoprofen) on both shoulders. Guess what? I had the best sleep ever since March. I woke up early this morning without any pain.

Fastum is used to relief localized pain of arthritis, rheumatism or sports injury. I should have acted earlier.

On and off, I had been doing some wauke spontaneously while I was thinking or working on some programming problems. Some kind of off-my-mind of physical activities after sitting in front of computer for too long. I guess it was the effect of banging my head on the keyboard and I lost sense of safety. Without doing proper stretching, I performed wauke with speed and force as in a counter attack situation. That could have torn my muscles or tendons on the bursa and I overlook the seriousness of the pain. How insanely I was!

Alright, now I am on Ketoprofen and I am going to apply it for the second time. Hope my shoulders will recover in a month or two.

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2 Responses to “Shoulder bursitis”

  • Adrian Hoe on April 21st, 2008 22:59 1

    Yeah! I almost forgot…

    I think the main reason which caused my shoulder injury is the karate gi bottom. My gi bottom (pants) is a draw string type. My gi is made of thick canvas material and after some time of wearing, it becomes difficult to draw the strings at both sides of my waist. Trying to pull outward (hard), puts tremendous strains on my shoulder. I guess it is how it started.

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