Watch out for indoor sports shoulder pain, if you want to enjoy it without injuries to Himchan Hospital...
Mar 27, 2025
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Kim Hyung-gun, head of the orthopedic surgery clinic at Himchan General Hospital in Incheon, said "Shoulders are areas where everyone experiences discomfort at least once, and it is easy for men and women of all ages to experience pain. In particular, pain may occur due to repeated use of hands above the head or occupations, but there are also many traumatic shoulder diseases caused by exercise." People who enjoy swimming, indoor court tennis, and badminton, who can exercise comfortably regardless of the weather and external environment, should be careful because they may develop shoulder disease because they move their shoulders and arms repeatedly.
◇Increates popular indoor sports shoulder collision syndrome
Tennis and badminton use a lot of shoulders and arms, and there are many movements to lift shoulders to play racquets. In fact, if you continue to force yourself to hit a ball and shuttlecock that you can't handle, you feel stiff in your shoulders. Moderately helps to increase shoulder flexibility and muscle strength, but excessive can lead to shoulder impingement syndrome.
Swimming is not affected by gravity, so even people with weak joints or pain can do it without burden. It is useful as a rehabilitation exercise for patients with frozen shoulder who have inflammation and stiffness in their shoulder joints. It is effective for frozen shoulders by developing flexibility, relaxing clumpy muscles, and strengthening muscle strength through turning the shoulders and arms. However, if you usually have shoulder collision syndrome, excessive swimming or especially butterfly methods can worsen symptoms.
Shoulder impact syndrome is a disease that causes inflammation and pain when the rotator cuff tendon surrounding the shoulder collides with the shoulder bone. A lot of raising the arm over the shoulder leads to shoulder collision syndrome, which narrows the space under the shoulder. I have pain when I raise my arm forward or sideways, especially when I put the back of my hand in contact with my hip, I feel sharp pain. When the arm is not moved or lifted, there are few symptoms, so it is often overlooked in the early stages. If it appears intermittently in young people with relatively high activity, it can be treated, but if shoulder collision syndrome is left unattended, it can progress to rotator cuff rupture, which breaks shoulder tendons.
◇ Effective collagen injection treatment in case of rotator cuff damage
The rotator cuff functions to hold the joint stably when moving the shoulder, and early treatment is very important because surgery is inevitable if it is completely ruptured. In the early stages of minor damage, symptoms can be expected to improve with physical therapy, drug therapy, and strengthening exercise therapy with sufficient rest. However, if partial rupture progresses, it is difficult to control pain with medication, and collagen injection treatment is drawing attention if it is somewhat early for surgery.
Collagen injection treatment is a method of helping tissue regeneration by injecting collagen into damaged areas. Collagen is a component of tendons and ligaments, and is made harmless even when used in the human body, so it has been used for a long time in plastic surgery. Previously, symptoms such as pain and inflammation were controlled when the rotator cuff ruptured, but surgery was often performed when the rupture progressed to a certain extent. Since collagen injection treatment regenerates the tissue at the rupture site, it can be expected to suppress the partial rupture from progressing to full-layer rupture.
Treatment is important, but it is also necessary to exercise healthily to prevent diseases. For swimming, it is recommended to stretch your shoulders thoroughly before entering the water, and to do it slowly with accurate strokes for about 30 minutes to an hour. Freestyle and backstroke are better than butterfly and breaststroke, which have a high risk of shoulder injury, with less strain on the shoulders. When doing racket exercises, you should do it in an accurate position without applying too much force. It is forbidden to overdo it with just motivation in movements that use the shoulders big, such as serve or smash. Before exercising, it is recommended to stretch your shoulders enough and not to exercise more than an hour.
Choi Kyung-won, head of the orthopedic surgery at Mokdong Himchan Hospital, said, `When the shoulder is unstable or pain occurs after exercise, treatment suitable for symptoms is needed through accurate diagnosis.'" Collagen injection treatment is a treatment that allows patients who have progressed to partial rupture to expect pain relief and recovery of shoulder function without reaching rotator cuff suture surgery.'
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
