DIFFICULTIES PLAYING SPORT
From early days with ‘tennis elbow’
to various injuries during high school years and a few beyond,
most physical sports that I enjoyed basically became immpossible to do.
TENNIS
Encouraged to play tennis from a young age
mainly through parent invovlement and family history in that sport,
tennis was always a challenge in terms of elbow soreness
and difficulty doing the overhead serve -
possibly linked to neck issues from a during birth subluxation.
I also found it difficult to not get angry while on the court -
looking back now with a better understanding of pain,
I can see why that could easily manifest itself on a regular basis.
Pretty much became a social-only activity from mid-high school onwards.
CRICKET
Really only played cricket ‘seriously’ during my primary school years.
By the time I got to high school, bowling or throwing the ball
usually lead to a very tender/sore right shoulder and/or elbow.
Played a bit of indoor cricket in a rural competition during the mid-latter 1980s,
but the next day was always one of near body-wide pain and stiffness,
which made doing physical orchard work very challenging to say the least.
Did get to do a bit more bowling during coaching a high school-aged team,
which by then (2011), the ©S-P-C©-type exercises I was doing quite regularly,
were showing signs of being at least reasonably successful -
as ‘proved’ by being able to bowl quite a few overs worth ‘in-the-nets’
and not have major shoulder and elbow problems the next day.
RUGBY UNION
Growing up in New Zealand, this was the game I loved playing the most
and I spent many hours during my primary school years,
honing my ball carrying skills, along with ‘perfecting’ the swerve and side step.
However, by the time i finished high school, it was obvious to me
that I could no longer carry on playing rugby.
Apart from now being ‘prone to injury’, as well as the injuries I was now ‘carrying’
- especially the school-chair, head-high tackle, kick in the back and rib injuries -
(see Injuries List)
the most important issue for me was tackling.
For one, the ability to ‘lay’ a decent tackle without hurting myself
became almost an impossibity - at least I could modify how I tackled
to lower my chances of self-injury, but using the top of my right shoulder
as the main and most effective ‘weapon’, basically caused instant self-injury.
More importantly though,
it had become very diffcult to ‘absorb’ a decent tackle ‘laid’ on me
- anything to my (right side) ribs in particular, usually lead to difficulty breathing,
let alone standing up and having the ability to run -
or indeed, absorb another one of those sort of tackles.
It was goodbye forever to playing that great game post-high school.
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