Dr Ns, i need advice for swimming with a bad shoulder

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Soo i applied for a job in over 20 different places and since the countrys fucked so bad i was desperate for anything. One kinda hopeless job i applied for, but would have been one of the best paying and definitly the funnest is at this huge waterpark by me. Sooo weeks go by and none of the shittyest places i applied call me, but dumb luck out of nowere this sick waterpark calls me and wants me as a lifeguard. Im the stokedest iv been in awile and realize if this happens itl be the best summer ever for me. Tanness, girls, high pay, chillin, and the illest condo partys will all be mine. Im a decent swimmer, but i knew i needed to learn how to swim a bit better. so im prepared to do so and i planned to swim this whole week for awile after school.

Flashback to ski season. I overshoot and fuck up badly resulting in my left shoulder (iv done my right one 6 times to) to dislocate, needing to be reduced by doctor. This is the first time this has happened to my left shoulder. so we saw specialist and yadayada i was supposed to go back for mri and didnt and i was supposed to do 6 weeks of pt but since iv dislocated my right shoulder soo i have all the pt stuff neccesary in my basement and i work super hard on my shoulder and it recovers fine and im happy because it was extra quick and it just went well. I get to ski 2 months after with a brace and its 100 percent fine.

Heres the bad part. Yesterday i go to this local hotel and start working on my swimming. I was fine did good and everything was all good. I get home after swimming and do my freeweight workout (shit is extreme im like very ripped) and im extra exausted after, but both shoulders seem fine. Today im at same pool and about a halfhour into my swimming training i decided to go extra hard with my frreestyle stroke and insted of entering the water by slicing it with my left arm i kinda messed up my form and i slapped it with my arm externally extended and it kinda jolted/subluxed for like half a second and scared the shit out of me. Im home now and uit isnt sore, just a little still and akward feeling... so idk what i did.

Being my lifeguard swimming test is in 4 days i need to continue swimming but im gona give my arm a day to calm down and just 100 relax but on thursday i planned to continue swimming again. So the question is- for all you children who have hurt there shoulders, do you have issues with it swimming? And is swiiming gona be safe for me with my shoulders? Any advice or imput is appriciated. I know like everything about shoulders but i never reallt triend going hard swimming with them and im concerned with whats gona happen. Thanks
 
I'm not going to far into this but, quit with the dry land training. That could make your shoulder worse. Swimming is one of the best exercises for any part of your body. It alleviates pressure on your joints and at the same time is a good work out. I had shoulder surgery about a year ago and the doctor recommend I join the swim team to help recover. It helped me out a lot to do a ton of swimming.
 
just go for it if this is the only option you got, if it goes right in the next 3 days..then u prob be all right. ice it and stuff.
 
swimming seems to help my shoulder. jumping off cliffs is where I have problems seems like anything over 25' is a big enough impact to tweak my shoulder but I doubt you'll be doing much of that as a lifeguard just try not to tweak it too hard diving and shit.
 
Shit is not a big deal at all.

I speak from expierence, I swim every day with a team (i'm still in high school)

A. What you did is not a big injury, the injuries you need to worry about are when your arms/hands go numb, that means nerve damage, when people say shoulder injury thats the most common type.

B. You have 3 days, I swam for a month with nerve damage and my right hand would go numb every practice (it was before state and I couldn't just stop) you have 3 or 4 days (cant remember which) before you have a swim test, its not going to make a lasting problem, if it continues to bother you, just do dryland workouts and lay off the swimming for one or two months, thats what I had to do.
 
swimming with fucked up shoulders is an area where i have gained considerable experience through my life as a distance swimmer. My advice: -take a day off and then continue training the next day and swim through it the best you can up until you get tested-take ibuprofen regularly-ICE YOUR SHOULDER directly after swimming for 20 minutes -and most importantly do exercises to strengthen the rotator cuff muscles, this actually helps me a lot and it usually works pretty fast.http://www.bubearcats.com/strength/core.pdf

 
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