Numbness from overhead squats? Also, Seattle doctors



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Brandon Berg

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I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked my
shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my right
thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my pressing
ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my right arm as
with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this is something for
which I should seek professional medical advice if it's not any better by
tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms and have any better
ideas?

Also, can anyone recommend a doctor in or around Seattle whose solution for
this won't be to keep my arms below my head for the rest of my life?

Thanks.
Brandon
 
"Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked
> my shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my
> right thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my
> pressing ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my
> right arm as with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this
> is something for which I should seek professional medical advice if it's
> not any better by tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms and
> have any better ideas?

Pinched radial nerve.

Should resolve itself. Wait a week or so. If not better, see an orthopedic
doctor.

> Also, can anyone recommend a doctor in or around Seattle whose solution
> for this won't be to keep my arms below my head for the rest of my life?

Doctor Dover. Ben Dover. Can do a digital rectal exam with both hands tied
behind his back.

David
 
"Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked
my
> shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my
right
> thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my
pressing
> ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my right arm as
> with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this is something
for
> which I should seek professional medical advice if it's not any better by
> tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms and have any better
> ideas?

I agree with David - sounds like a pinched nerve.

>
> Also, can anyone recommend a doctor in or around Seattle whose solution
for
> this won't be to keep my arms below my head for the rest of my life?
>

I might be able to give you some recommendations. I'd recommend ART or
similar first, but you might have to see a doc to get a referral (depends on
your insurance). If interested, write me off line. (remove the obvious
from my email addy)

Selene



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In article <[email protected]>,
"Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> > I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked
> my
> > shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my
> right
> > thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my
> pressing
> > ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my right arm as
> > with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this is something
> for
> > which I should seek professional medical advice if it's not any better by
> > tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms and have any better
> > ideas?
>
> I agree with David - sounds like a pinched nerve.
>
> >
> > Also, can anyone recommend a doctor in or around Seattle whose solution
> for
> > this won't be to keep my arms below my head for the rest of my life?
> >
>
> I might be able to give you some recommendations. I'd recommend ART or
> similar first, but you might have to see a doc to get a referral (depends on
> your insurance). If interested, write me off line. (remove the obvious
> from my email addy)

Why do you recommend ART for a pinched nerve?

--
Keith
 
"David Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
>> I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked
>> my shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my
>> right thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my
>> pressing ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my
>> right arm as with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this
>> is something for which I should seek professional medical advice if it's
>> not any better by tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms
>> and have any better ideas?
>
> Pinched radial nerve.
>
> Should resolve itself. Wait a week or so. If not better, see an orthopedic
> doctor.

Thanks. Is there anything I can do to allow me to continue doing overhead
squats (after recovering) without this happening again? Aside from my desire
to avoid contact with orthopedic surgeons in their professional capacities,
the tingling is annoying.

--
Brandon Berg
Fix the obvious homonym substitution to reply.
 
"Hobbes" <[email protected]> wrote
> "Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> > > I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I
tweaked
> > > my shoulders a bit yesterday morning.
> >
> > ... I'd recommend ART or
> > similar first, but you might have to see a doc to get a referral
(depends on
> > your insurance).
>
> Why do you recommend ART for a pinched nerve?
>

Not for the nerve. For whatever was causing the nerve to get pinched, or
whatever is doing the pinching. (? Does that make sense?)

S.
 
"Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> "David Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote >>
>> "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
>>> I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked
>>> my shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my
>>> right thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my
>>> pressing ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my
>>> right arm as with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this
>>> is something for which I should seek professional medical advice if it's
>>> not any better by tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms
>>> and have any better ideas?
>>
>> Pinched radial nerve.
>>
>> Should resolve itself. Wait a week or so. If not better, see an
>> orthopedic doctor.
>
> Thanks. Is there anything I can do to allow me to continue doing overhead
> squats (after recovering) without this happening again? Aside from my
> desire to avoid contact with orthopedic surgeons in their professional
> capacities, the tingling is annoying.

Good question.

I don't know.

I am not recommending this, but, if it were me, I would try various shoulder
joint stretching routines to try to release the pressure on the nerve. But
nurses often play doctor, so I don't recommend it for anyone else.

David
 
In article <[email protected]>,
"Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Hobbes" <[email protected]> wrote
> > "Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> > > > I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I
> tweaked
> > > > my shoulders a bit yesterday morning.
> > >
> > > ... I'd recommend ART or
> > > similar first, but you might have to see a doc to get a referral
> (depends on
> > > your insurance).
> >
> > Why do you recommend ART for a pinched nerve?
> >
>
> Not for the nerve. For whatever was causing the nerve to get pinched, or
> whatever is doing the pinching. (? Does that make sense?)
>
> S.
>
>

Only if it is being pinched due to muscle adhesions. Which I don't think
is likely - I think he just has to work in more slowly and work on
overall shoulder ROM.

--
Keith
 
In article <AU%[email protected]>,
"David Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> > "David Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote >>
> >> "Brandon Berg" <[email protected]> wrote
> >>> I've been trying out overhead squats for about a week now, and I tweaked
> >>> my shoulders a bit yesterday morning. The pain's pretty mild now, but my
> >>> right thumb and index finger have been tingling ever since, and while my
> >>> pressing ability seems to be unaffected, I can't curl as much with my
> >>> right arm as with my left (I'm right-handed). My assumption is that this
> >>> is something for which I should seek professional medical advice if it's
> >>> not any better by tomorrow, but...does anyone recognize these symptoms
> >>> and have any better ideas?
> >>
> >> Pinched radial nerve.
> >>
> >> Should resolve itself. Wait a week or so. If not better, see an
> >> orthopedic doctor.
> >
> > Thanks. Is there anything I can do to allow me to continue doing overhead
> > squats (after recovering) without this happening again? Aside from my
> > desire to avoid contact with orthopedic surgeons in their professional
> > capacities, the tingling is annoying.
>
> Good question.
>
> I don't know.
>
> I am not recommending this, but, if it were me, I would try various shoulder
> joint stretching routines to try to release the pressure on the nerve. But
> nurses often play doctor, so I don't recommend it for anyone else.

I'd do the same.

Kono has a progression in his book. You start with a dowel and flex the
shoulders as far back as they go with the hands comfortably wide. You
move the hands in over time until you can go from the front of your
torso to the back with a ****** grip.

For OH squats you start doing a partial and then work your way down.

--
Keith
 
"Hobbes" <[email protected]> wrote in
> "Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "Hobbes" <[email protected]> wrote
> > >
> > > Why do you recommend ART for a pinched nerve?
> > >
> > Not for the nerve. For whatever was causing the nerve to get pinched,
or
> > whatever is doing the pinching. (? Does that make sense?)
>
> Only if it is being pinched due to muscle adhesions. Which I don't think
> is likely - I think he just has to work in more slowly and work on
> overall shoulder ROM.
>

What would pinch a nerve except muscles? And aren't progressive stretches
much like tissue work? When I had my shoulder worked on, he stretched as he
manipulated, and voy-lah, my shoulder started improving. My injury was not
lifting related, though.

Not that I'm disagreeing with working on shoulder ROM and building up
slowly.

S.
 
In article <[email protected]>,
"Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Hobbes" <[email protected]> wrote in
> > "Selene" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > "Hobbes" <[email protected]> wrote
> > > >
> > > > Why do you recommend ART for a pinched nerve?
> > > >
> > > Not for the nerve. For whatever was causing the nerve to get pinched,
> or
> > > whatever is doing the pinching. (? Does that make sense?)
> >
> > Only if it is being pinched due to muscle adhesions. Which I don't think
> > is likely - I think he just has to work in more slowly and work on
> > overall shoulder ROM.
> >
>
> What would pinch a nerve except muscles? And aren't progressive stretches
> much like tissue work? When I had my shoulder worked on, he stretched as he
> manipulated, and voy-lah, my shoulder started improving. My injury was not
> lifting related, though.
>
> Not that I'm disagreeing with working on shoulder ROM and building up
> slowly.

Selenne - add 'adhesions'.

--
Keith
 
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