Pinched nerves from grappling
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I apologize that I haven’t been posting more recently. Unfortunately, due to my lack of mat time, there hasn’t really been much to post about.
Yup, that’s right. Although I have been craving mat time, an unfortunately condition has me pretty well out of the game. That’s what I wanted to write about today:
Pinched nerves from back injuries due to grappling.
Be it Judo, Jiu Jitsu, or wrestling, as we get older, and as (some of us) get bigger, these types of things are unfortunately, increasingly likely. Mine has had me out for just over a month now, and although I am improving, I know I am nowhere near ready to be back on the mats yet.
So, I wanted to share a little bit of what I have experienced, and what I have learned:
1- Arm pain can be back pain. Yup. Most of my pain is actually in my arm. It is really bad in the arm pit, should, and between my bicep and tricep, headed down toward my elbow. The pain near the elbow has been bad enough from time to time, that I was sure I had a recurrence of tendonitis. But, it didn’t respond to cold like tendonitis does.
2- Ribs can act like spinal injuries. Ya, weird huh? I have been to a couple of the best, most highly recommended doctors for this type of thing, and both of them have determined that my “back” pain is actually a rib that keeps popping out of position on the back. Apparently this is a common form of your “back being out”.
3- NSAIDs can be trouble. Aleve, IBuprofen, etc. My chiropractor told me to take 800 mg of ibuprofen ever 4 hours to keep the inflammation under control. After about a week of this, I had a mouth absolutely full of canker sores. I did some searching on the internet, and apparently this is a common problem with large amounts of NSAIDs (Non steroid anti inflammatory drugs.) Watch out for this.
4- It can take a long time to recover from a pinched nerve. In addition to pain, and weakness in my back and arm, I have tingling in fingers on that hand as well. In researching this type of condition (ain’t the internet great), I found a good article on what to expect for recovery times on pinched nerves. The article goes into a lot of detail about which portion of your back is likely to be causing the pain, and what effects you will likely be feeling. As for recovery times, the author claims that several weeks, and very often months is typical time for a damaged nerve to heal, even once the pressure from the back or rib is fixed. Truly sucky.
I’ll keep you posted on how my condition progresses. If you have been through this as well, I’d loe to hear your experiences and insight.
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