Swimming is a hot topic in the summer, and scientific sports are popular. Beware of shoulder joint impact syndrome. Joint | swimming | syndrome
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Changsha, July 1st (Xinhua) - With the arrival of summer and hot weather, many students choose swimming as their first choice for vacation sports. Doctors remind students that scientific swimming can help them lose weight, burn fat, and improve cardiovascular function. However, if swimming too hard and too fast, it can also lead to the occurrence of shoulder impingement syndrome.
Recently, reporters have conducted interviews in multiple places in Hunan and found that swimming venues in various regions are crowded with people, and many students consider swimming as an important way to relieve heat. Liu Ben, a sports enthusiast living in Yueyang, Hunan, is a junior high school student. He told reporters that the school encourages students to exercise during the summer, and he and his classmates often swim together. Before swimming, they warm up.
According to Wang Jing, Director of the Department of Osteoarthritis and Sports Medicine at Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, the hospital has recently treated multiple patients who developed shoulder impingement syndrome due to excessive swimming. Swimming is a high frequency exercise that involves the use of the shoulder joint. Shoulder impingement syndrome, also known as "swimming shoulder", is mainly caused by frequent movement of the shoulder joint during swimming, which leads to collisions between the shoulder ligaments and large nodules, inducing shoulder pain and shoulder tendon injury.
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Wang Jing said that the clinical symptoms of "swimming shoulder" mainly include shoulder joint pain, including rest pain, exercise pain, nocturnal pain, and movement disorders. Specifically, patients with acute injuries exhibit severe shoulder pain and reduced shoulder abduction ability; When a patient experiences chronic injury, there is a dull pain in the shoulder, pain during shoulder abduction, and limited mobility.
Jiang Hao, a doctor from the Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, pointed out that people who swim freestyle and butterfly are more likely to suffer from "swimming shoulders" because frequent movements of the shoulder joint lifting over the head can easily cause local damage to the shoulder joint. Some swimming enthusiasts have irregular movements or exercise for too long, lack sufficient warm-up, and put their shoulders in an excessive state of exercise.
Doctors remind that before swimming, it is important to engage in sufficient warm-up activities, such as shoulder relaxation, knee bending, and squatting; When swimming, pay attention to maintaining the correct posture, relaxing the body, stretching the movements, coordinating the movements of hands and feet, and maintaining a balanced swimming speed. It is not advisable to be too fast or too aggressive. Students should control their swimming time reasonably, and it is advisable to swim for no more than 1 hour each time. After swimming, it is important to relax appropriately and use stretching of muscles and ligaments, as well as breathing regulation, to help the body recover better. Once shoulder discomfort occurs, swimming should be stopped in a timely manner. If the pain cannot be relieved after rest, seek medical attention promptly.