Hi, looking for advice,
Been climbing lots this season (mainly trad), & after a good / not too hard session at Stanage (no issues at all) a week ago, I woke the next day (after a bad /fraught night - no idea why) with a *very* sore upper outer arm (near shoulder) & assumed I’d just slept on it funny. It felt like someone had clobbered my upper outside arm with a baseball bat. No bruise.
Went for a walk later & pain had eased right off. But the pain returned in anger that evening, & that night was horrible. Since then, no improvement, every night I wake in pain, can’t find a comfortable position, am on constant painkillers.
Pain can ease in day, esp. if I go for a walk. But in the evening, back it comes.
Obviously, I have not tried any climbing… I’m supposed to be going to Kalymnos in 4 week’s time, but really is this a show stopper?
All advice gratefully received. I’ve seen a climbing-friendly physio in Sheffield who suspects I’ve got “Wry Neck”, but I’m not so sure now. I’ve worsened since seeing him, & I think the rehab he gave me was too much, too soon (“shrugging” shoulders up with 2Kg weights in each hand….)
(I had a serious shoulder impingement syndrome over 10 years ago on the other side, which was very bad indeed, & resolved eventually: this isn’t that).
Thanks in advance… oh, and nothing “tore”, “pulled”, “popped”, or “strained”/cramped etc during any climbs I’ve done recently….