Want permanent relief from a swimmer’s shoulder disorder? – Consider Regenerative Cell Treatment!

Author: Vaishnav Kumar

Do you know which is the most complex joint of our human body? It’s the shoulder that allows a wider range of movement. Compared to other people, swimmers use their shoulders more. They use shoulders to propel their body weight against the resistance of water. The best swimmer should be able to cover the maximum range of motion with complete flexibility. But at times, they may have to experience shoulder instability issues. Nearly 90 per cent of swimmers complain more about their shoulder problems. Hence, shoulder impingement is otherwise called a swimmer’s shoulder problem.

We are your all-time go-to regenerative medicine specialists. Here at Medica Stem Cells Clinic, we help you get back in the water at the earliest.

What is swimmer’s shoulder?

Swimmer’s shoulder is also called shoulder impingement. It is a condition where swimmers experience severe pain due to the continuous rotation of their shoulder joints. Hence, they will have terrible difficulty while swimming.

Remember that your shoulder joint is very mobile. The muscles and ligaments support it. Both of them overwork due to the following activities:

  • Past shoulder injury

  • Over-exertion

  • Wrong techniques

  • Shoulder weakness

  • Increase in shoulder mobility

  • Use of hand paddles

These repetitive activities will weaken your rotator cuff muscles. And they may get improperly positioned. Hence, this improper alignment will make your surrounding muscles and tissues rub against each other.

If you continue to do these activities repetitively, you may experience the following injuries:

  • Bursitis

  • Ligament damage

  • Rotator cuff tears

  • Rotator cuff impingement and tendonitis

  • Damage to your cartilage

What are the signs and symptoms of a swimmer’s shoulder?

The signs of a swimmer’s shoulder include:

  • Continuous swimming can aggravate your pain. It radiates along the back and front of your shoulder. As the pain worsens, you will experience shoulder tendonitis.

  • Shoulder tendonitis refers to the inflammation of your biceps shoulder muscles.

  • Later, this pain will migrate to your neck or down the arm, starting from local pain.

The common symptoms of swimmer’s shoulder include:

  • Increase in joint laxity

  • Weakness compared to your other shoulder

  • Restricted range of motion compared to another shoulder

Are you experiencing the above-listed problems? Then, it’s time to stop swimming and rest your affected shoulder. You should consult our medical experts right away to prevent this issue from getting worse.

Are there any specific characteristics of a swimmer’s shoulder?

Yes. The characteristics of this condition include:

  • Inflammation of biceps and supraspinatus tendon in the back

  • Overtraining, overloading, or improper stroke techniques

  • Alteration in the shoulder joint posture

  • Altered mobility, muscle condition, and neuromuscular region.

  • Shoulder instability and laxity

Since swimming involves repetitive shoulder movements, swimmers may develop muscle imbalance. Furthermore, this condition will weaken the surrounding areas. While moving the humeral region up and forward, it may compromise the subacromial area. As a result, you may face irritation of impingement.

How does Medica Stem Cells Clinic help?

Our Medica Stem Cells Clinic offers regenerative cell treatment in Ireland and London. Our regenerative medicine includes cellular treatment and PRP (Platelets-Rich Plasma) therapy.

Regenerative medicine is a natural treatment that provides permanent results, unlike other conventional methods. As this treatment involves your own cells, there is no risk of allergy or rejection.

Conventional methods include medications, physical therapy, and steroid injections. Surgery will be the last resort. All these modalities provide only temporary results. They can mask your symptoms for a short time. However, they don’t treat the underlying cause of this condition. Moreover, all these modalities have few side effects as well.

That’s not the case with regenerative cell treatment. It will not only mask the symptoms. But it will also treat the underlying causes. Hence, these symptoms will subside by themselves.

Our Medica Stem Cells Clinic also offers physical therapy and nutritional therapy as well. We recommend a personalised combinational therapy involving these therapies with regenerative medicine. These combinational therapies can quicken your healing process compared to regenerative cell treatment alone.