CALLING ALL BUSH MECHANICS

[Sparra]

Gaday fella's...after 2 solid days of tunning and shooting my bow i woke up easter monday with a sore shoulder,neck and collar bone(left side)and now after a week and a half i still can't draw back my bow or lift much with my left arm....WHATS THE GO??????anyone else had this problem???
Regards....Sparra

[HOOD]

Solution cut it off at the neck :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Really after two days of what sounds like continuous drawing a bow it's any wonder that your sore. you have either just over worked the muscles/ligamints or you have accually done some internal damage somewhere. either way wouldn't hurt to go and see a quack/chiro/phisio about it.

Hood 8)

[jason]

commonly known as girlantitus generally fixed by doing manly things. i would prescribe a hunting trip or a drink with the boys at the pub followed by a good hour of perving that should do the trick mate. :wink:
Dr j

[HOOD]

You funny barsted Jason I love it.

Hood 8)

[jindydiver]

commonly known as girlantitus generally fixed by doing manly things. i would prescribe a hunting trip or a drink with the boys at the pub followed by a good hour of perving that should do the trick mate. :wink:
Dr j

ROTFLMAO :lol: :lol:

On a serious note though, over use can cause real injury. Get some heat packs onto it and half an aspirin a day and in a week it should be all cleared up. Stretch it gently the whole time also (after applying heat) and don«ÉŸt pick up that bow for a few weeks.

[Sparra]

Thanks fella's...when i was younger it was always in my right arm :) :)

[Mozza]

roflmao :lol: :lol:

[Reece]

Stretch it gently the whole time also (after applying heat) and don«ÉŸt pick up that bow for a few weeks.

That's exactly what you have to do. I had a similar experience and thought I'd just let it sort itself out. It didn't. After three weeks I bit the arrow and went to the physio. She told me that you can't let rotator cuff and other shoulder injuries go, you have to keep them working, but very gently.

It might be a similar condition, it might not. To be on the safe side see a physio anyway.

Rich.

[Warlocke]

Rotator cuff injuries need remedial work.

When they are first inflamed ice them.

This is a form of tendonitis which occurs by inflamed tendons sliding in their sheaths, like carpal tunell or Repetitive strain injury.

If you know basic physiology, you will know the body registers heat as pain (also extreme cold).

Biomechanically, when tissue heats up it expands, taking up more area than normally allocated for this tissue, causing more friction, which in turn creates greater expansion.

Long term care would entail, initially, ice and rest, then treat the movement like any other exercise based regime, day on day or two off.

When first going back, do less archery then slowly increase the volume as the area becomes accustomed to the load.

Rotator cuff excercises would make the likelihood of this occuring again less likely.

Also modification of the drawing movement would help as you are convalescing.

Try drawing the elbow on an even plane out parellel with the ground, and twist the wrist as you are drawing back.

This movement does not rely on rotator cuff as much as drawing with the elbow closer to the body.

A short lesson on biomechanics, the rotator cuff maintains joint integrity of the gleno-humeral joint, allowing rotation of the humerus in the glenoid fossa.

Undue rotation under load stresses the rotator cuff muscles (infraspinatus, subscapularus and posterior enervation of the deltoid, but usually just infraspinatus) causing chronic, and sometimes in extreme cases, acute injury.

I love this scientific b......t, baffles the hell out of everyone :).

[Barry]

Two good posts here:

1) From Jason :lol:

2) From Warlocke. I have had to deal with major rotator cuff problems in the past.