Pain!?!?!?

[Long Shot]

There's days like toDay where I'm in absolute agony and other days it's fine.
My have to go see dr.

Sorry to pry Khaos, but this has me intrigued. Could you describe the pain? Sharp, dull, aching, stabbing? Any altered sensation ie. numbness, tingling? Does the pain radiate anywhere like down your arm, into your neck or down your back? Do you find position of your arm to be either a cause or relieving factor for the pain?

I understand if you don't want to post the answers here, so PM me if that works for you. As a doctor, specifically a Neurosurgeon, I'm really interested in trying to work out what's really going on in your shoulder. If I can figure it out I may be able to at least offer a treatment / pain management plan for you.

Cheers

[Long Shot]

Firsts first how you now khaos
Ive never recieved pain in my shoulder, however, sometimes my back suffers

Matt

Hi Matt,

Back pain is common amongst people spending long hours on their feet and bending at the waist. Since not much can be done about bending over a snooker table, besides changing your stance a bit, I would recommend new shoes. Sounds crazy but invest in an expensive pair of sneakers to wear when playing.
Just my opinion though. Hope it helps.

Cheers

[Khaos]

Sorry to pry Khaos, but this has me intrigued. Could you describe the pain? Sharp, dull, aching, stabbing? Any altered sensation ie. numbness, tingling? Does the pain radiate anywhere like down your arm, into your neck or down your back? Do you find position of your arm to be either a cause or relieving factor for the pain?

I understand if you don't want to post the answers here, so PM me if that works for you. As a doctor, specifically a Neurosurgeon, I'm really interested in trying to work out what's really going on in your shoulder. If I can figure it out I may be able to at least offer a treatment / pain management plan for you.

Cheers

That's ok.
The pain radiates down thru my fingers and makes them tingle.
It's my left should that's affected. When I raise my arm straight inform of me at just above chest height the left muscle on the ball of my shoulder contracts and really hurts.
There's a little cramping in my neck.

I'm tryin not to sleep on it but I'm rolling onto in the night and waking up sometimes not being able to move my arm fully or even at all.

Does that help?

[Khaos]

Sorry to pry Khaos, but this has me intrigued. Could you describe the pain? Sharp, dull, aching, stabbing? Any altered sensation ie. numbness, tingling? Does the pain radiate anywhere like down your arm, into your neck or down your back? Do you find position of your arm to be either a cause or relieving factor for the pain?

I understand if you don't want to post the answers here, so PM me if that works for you. As a doctor, specifically a Neurosurgeon, I'm really interested in trying to work out what's really going on in your shoulder. If I can figure it out I may be able to at least offer a treatment / pain management plan for you.

Cheers

That's ok.
The pain radiates down thru my fingers and makes them tingle.
It's my right shoulder that's affected. When I raise my arm straight inform of me at just above chest height the left muscle on the ball of my shoulder contracts and really hurts.
There's a little cramping in my neck.

I'm tryin not to sleep on it but I'm rolling onto in the night and waking up sometimes not being able to move my arm fully or even at all.

Does that help?

[martj]

I get this too mate, only in the last couple of months but I have been playing a lot, usually around 4-5 hours at a time. Can be absolute agony, especially when lifting my arm in the air. I find I'm pressing down on the table with my bridging arm too hard putting pressure on my shoulder instead of just resting it on the tablel If I relax my bridging arm on the table then it doesn't hurt but I sem to apply more pressure on my bridging arm when I'm a bit nervous. I need to learn to relax more.

[Long Shot]

Hi Khaos,
Just quickly it sounds like you have Neuro-vascular compromise to that arm. I'll have a more detailed answer for you soon, but I suggest you see your doctor to organise a CT Scan of you shoulder. Put bluntly Neuro deficits are a very bad thing. I'm in surgery this morning so I'll try to get a better answer for you this evening.
Cheers

[Long Shot]

Hi Khaos,
Just quickly it sounds like you have Neuro-vascular compromise to that arm. I'll have a more detailed answer for you soon, but I suggest you see your doctor to organise a CT Scan of you shoulder. Put bluntly Neuro deficits are a very bad thing. I'm in surgery this morning so I'll try to get a better answer for you this evening.
Cheers

[jimhassel]

Feeling pain after playing with 2 years of gap is quite normal. We put more effort to play with perfection after gap. This built extra burden on shoulder and neck too. But after 2-3 day's of regular practice body feel relief from pain.

[Khaos]

Put an ice pack on my shoulder last night and that really has eased the pain.
I'm booked in for dr.s on Thursday so we shall see what happens, and I'll see how my shoulder is after my match tonight...

[Khaos]

Put an ice pack on my shoulder last night and that really has eased the pain.
I'm booked in for dr.s on Thursday so we shall see what happens, and I'll see how my shoulder is after my match tonight...

[Long Shot]

Hey Khaos, glad to hear the ice helped. This sound suspiciously like "Shoulder Instability". Basically it's like a dislocated shoulder without actually dislocating it. It is caused by repetitive overhead reaching whilst putting pressure on the shoulder joint. The shoulder is a ball and socket joint. The ball, head of humerus, fits into the socket, glenoid cavity, and is held in place by ligaments and muscles. When these ligaments stretch it allows the joint to "float" around in the socket. The socket is lined by cartilage, called the glenoid labrum, and when the joint floats around it is possible for it to tear this cartilage causing pain. The treatment for this type of injury is pain relief, anti-inflammatories, ice, rest and physical therapy to strengthen the muscles. A CT or MRI would be needed to confirm this though.
My advice until you see your GP would be to keep up with the ice and try to get some decent anti-inflammatories going. Something with Ibuprofen should help.
Hope you do well at your match tonight.
Cheers

[Khaos]

And there's me thinking it was something simple. Oh dear. I will keep putting ice on it and I've got some anti inflammatories . I'll keep you posted and thanks again.

[davisskeggsm]

Hi Matt,

Back pain is common amongst people spending long hours on their feet and bending at the waist. Since not much can be done about bending over a snooker table, besides changing your stance a bit, I would recommend new shoes. Sounds crazy but invest in an expensive pair of sneakers to wear when playing.
Just my opinion though. Hope it helps.

Cheers

Ok thanks mate, response appreciated :')

Matt

[Sidd]

I have forgotten the time I used to be good and without this pain. It is indeed one of the worst things. I still curse my technique becasue there are many peple who play snooker and the pros play more than us practice more than us but never have such problems. I can only pray it gets better. It is a pretty bad thing to have. Yes not being able to sleep at night over the shoulder and rolling over and over is the gift it gives you.... Saddening and agonising.

[Long Shot]

Hi Khaos,

Just seeing how you are feeling? Did you see your GP? It would be nice to know what he/she had to say to see if I was even close or way off the mark.
Take care.