Shoulder Cuff Injury

Stew86 · Post by **Stew86** » February 11th, 2005, 6:48 am

I fucked up my left shoulder when we were practicing bounding while getting shot at by paintballs. I went to the on campus doc and he said it was my rotator cuff and I should stay off of it for two weeks and perscribed some anti inflamatory. We have a PT test in two weeks, so I was wondering if anyone knows of any chest exercies I could do that don't involve my shoulder. I tried doing curls the other day, and even that hurt pretty badly. Any suggestions?

Kilted Heathen · Post by **Kilted Heathen** » February 11th, 2005, 7:05 am

Are you a slow learner?

The Holmchicken · February 11th, 2005, 10:06 am

As the proud recipient of a fucked shoulder cuff and the accompanying surgery, my advice is lay off for two weeks. The Doc said two weeks, take two weeks. Do what the Doc tells you. Fuck the PT test. It's one a 8 million you'll have to do in the army. Tell you're instructor that you're injured, playing a game a like a dumbass, show him Doc's note and he should let you off. If not, oh well. Besides after two weeks of no upper body, I'm pretty certain you can still knock out 42 push-ups in two minutes. If you can't, you're a fucking nancy to begin with.

Stew86 · Post by **Stew86** » February 11th, 2005, 2:39 pm

Roger that Rangers, and thanks for the advice. The only problem is that this PT test is the one they will be recording to see who gets a slot for Airborne school. I guess I'm fucked either way. I know I can do 42 pusups, the most I've done so far is 67 but I want to do the absolute best so I can go to Airborne this summer. I guess I will just run a lot for the next two weeks and try to compensate if I do poorly in the pushups.

The Holmchicken · Post by **The Holmchicken** » February 11th, 2005, 4:41 pm

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Airborne School is all hooah and shit. So you don't go this summer. You'll go next summer or immediately after you complete OBC. Let your body heal. Trust me, the Army doesn't want any of it's brand new butter bars to non-Airborne qualified.

Rock Island Ranger · February 11th, 2005, 4:44 pm

The Holmchicken wrote:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Airborne School is all hooah and shit. So you don't go this summer. You'll go next summer or immediately after you complete OBC. Let your body heal. Trust me, the Army doesn't want any of it's brand new butter bars to non-Airborne qualified.

Yea, the Tankers really need that?

Stew86 · Post by **Stew86** » February 11th, 2005, 11:25 pm

Roger that Ranger The Holmchicken, I guess I can stay off of it for 2 weeks. I'm going to run about everyday now so I can compensate, but if I don't get an Airborne slot, there's always next summer.