An active veteran with high fitness levels describes two years of shoulder and elbow pain that made simple tasks like picking up a backpack difficult, despite being able to do 20 pull-ups. Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explores how functional impairment, not lost strength, became the real problem.
This gentleman is extremely active. I met this guy in CrossFit, and he still leads high intensity exercise training from his home. So he does a lot of workouts. What were you unable to do that made you upset? I know you. I mean, your average workout is multiple pull ups. So how many pull ups can you do?
I think the most I ever did was 20 in a row. But my workouts weren't impeded. What really bothered me was just flexing my elbow. So the common task of just picking up a backpack, slinging it over my shoulder, those kind of things. And then when I was working out, I would actually do that, cautiously thinking through the movement, making sure that I didn't do anything that would increase the pain. So it was. It was becoming a nuisance. After two years of that.
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