Background
On the Sunday of the first Llangollen weekend, I, inoccuously (no dramatic rolls etc.), hurt my shoulder (no previous known injury). The physio now suggests that I partially dislocated it. I know between what gates (11 and 13) I hurt it but have no real idea of how. The Welsh chief coach saw my run and saw nothing untoward. Thus the injury would seem not to have been due to any major direct cause.
This sort of injury seems to be relatively common in canoeing, indeed, I believe there were also two full shoulder dislocations at the Llangollen events this year. In my case I believe that the shoulder was unstable after decades of swimming (seriously until age 20) and water polo (national league) and this is probably a (the?) major contributory factor. Certainly I have had 'swimmer's shoulder' problems with the other shoulder.
Questions
I wonder how many paddlers specifically do exercises designed to maintain/improve shoulder stability?
Indeed do coaches encourage such?
Probably futile plea
If anyone happens (unlikely I know) to have video footage of the start (I was first judge down in the afternoon) of second runs at the inter-regionals, please can I have a copy. I really would love to know what happened!
Shoulder injuries
Thanks Geebs - lots of other shoulder injured paddlers out there.
However, my thread is aimed at initial prevention. I.e. what exercises are coaches and paddlers doing to reduce the incidence of such injuries in the first place?
Further thought, does anyone know of any canoeing injury statistics or related research?
However, my thread is aimed at initial prevention. I.e. what exercises are coaches and paddlers doing to reduce the incidence of such injuries in the first place?
Further thought, does anyone know of any canoeing injury statistics or related research?
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Hi Ray,
Hope your shoulder is feeling better, I have a couple of refernces for articles about canoeing and shoulder injuries that I got from the internet that may be of interest to you, they are:
Injuries in whitewater kayaking (2003) British Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 35 by Fiore & Houston
Shoulder pathoanatomy in marathon kayakers (2004) British Journal of Sports Medicine Vol.38 by Hagemann, Rijke & Mars
Shoulder muscle recruitment patterns during a kayak stroke performed on a paddling ergometer (2007) Journal of electromyography and kinesiology Vol. 17
Injuries associated with whitewater rafting and kayaking (2003) Wilderness & environmental medicine Vol. 14 Fiore
Hope this gives you some interesting reading!
Hope your shoulder is feeling better, I have a couple of refernces for articles about canoeing and shoulder injuries that I got from the internet that may be of interest to you, they are:
Injuries in whitewater kayaking (2003) British Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 35 by Fiore & Houston
Shoulder pathoanatomy in marathon kayakers (2004) British Journal of Sports Medicine Vol.38 by Hagemann, Rijke & Mars
Shoulder muscle recruitment patterns during a kayak stroke performed on a paddling ergometer (2007) Journal of electromyography and kinesiology Vol. 17
Injuries associated with whitewater rafting and kayaking (2003) Wilderness & environmental medicine Vol. 14 Fiore
Hope this gives you some interesting reading!