Avoiding shoulder pain

Every now and then I develop some shoulder pain in my right shoulder. I breath to the left side mostly and shoulder pain is usually due to a technique deficit like crossing over in front of your head or other circumstances.

I had Clay Evans; founder of SCAQ, watch me swim and he said that when I get tired I put undue leverage on my right shoulder by pushing water down instead of back. He said I am pushing the water down like a fulcrum to facilitate a breath rather than to facilitate moving forward.

I told him I am going to put this on the blog and he said he would look at anyone's stroke if they come to one of his workouts. This includes non-SCAQ swimmers as well. (310) 390-5700

Resources regarding swimmer's shoulder

Swimmers shoulder, flexibility and related shoulder resources from "About. com" which is the most advertisement laden site on the web. Here is a link to the main page of articles: [link]

They actually tried to link to an article that Bonnie wrote which I posted here. An article they had no permission to stick ads all over. Alas, they didn't get away with it for they had a broken link. Here are some sample pages from the link above.

About Overview of Swimmer's Shoulder
About Appropriate Flexibility for Swimmers Shoulder
About Causes of Swimmers Shoulder
About Exercises to Establish Muscle Balance
About Prevention of Swimmer's Shoulder
Swimmers Shoulder Injury Prevention from USA Swimming
About Signs and Symptoms of Swimmers Shoulder
About Swimming Technique Modifications for Swimmers Shoulder
Preventing Shoulder Injury - An In-water Program
Swimmer's Shoulder - 3 possible causes