Have you ever had to "pop" your shoulder?

[Kim]

I need to, but I can't. My shoulder and arm hurts so badly I can barely stand it. I don't think it's dislocated, but I don't know. I've taken codeine, and it is not even helping. I swear I'm not a wimp, but this pain is killing me. How can I pop it back where it needs to be?

[glagic]

i have to do it quite often. ive partially torn my rotator cuff and it pops out every so often. you can have some pull your arm and it might pop back in or you can hold onto something and then pull your body away, that works for me. last thing i do is sometimes i can just fling my arm int eh right way to get it to go, i dont think this is too descriptive...sorry. if worse comes to worse, you can always see a doctor/chiropractor

hope if feels better.

[Nija]

I had to get my shoulder popped into place once. I had to basically ram my shoulder into an entryway. Hurt but it felt good afterwards.

[BigJon]

The beginning of Matrix
The beginning of Blade

Use these as a reference for re-locating your shoulder :D

[Showtime]

Sorry to hear about your shoulder. Both mine are messed up. One from a very bad car accident and one from a very bad workout. One side crunches all the time and the doctors cant find the reason why. Probably nerve damage from the car wreck. You may want to see a doctor before trying to fix it yourself. You could cause more harm...

Hope you get better soon.

-j

[molecularfire]

Are you sure that your shoulder is dislocated or there be some other reason for the pain? If you need to pop your shoulder back in and nobody is there to help you then you could do what glagic suggests about holding onto something and pulling your body away. If you can't get through the pain and do it yourself get someone to do it for you (friends, family, ER, doctor, whatever) ASAP. You don't want to leave a dislocated joint out for too long because it can pinch a blood vessel, block blood flow into the area and cause serious problems. Good Luck.

[Kim]

It's still bad this morning. I tried popping it myself with no luck. I don't think it's dislocated because my shoulder doesn't look weird. I hate to go to the doctor and have him laugh at me for coming in to get a joint popped.

[molecularfire]

If it doesn't look weird and you can still move it around (can you still move it around?) then it probably isn't dislocated which is good because it would be bad to leave it overnight dislocated. However, if you have pain, you have pain. Go see your doctor and ask him/her about the pain. Don't ask them to pop it back in... if that is needed he/she will know enough to do it. In the very least he/she can proabably give you some better stuff for the pain.

[Kim]

I can move it fine from the elbow down. I can raise my arm about 6 inches before I get bad pain.

Thanks for your advice, I'll try and get an appointment this afternoon.

[cheapchinese]

calcium?

[welfareloser]

erk. i have to pop mine every now and then... no macho sports injury, just another f***ed up joint on my weak-ass lemon of a body :P

for me, lifting my arm up in the tae kwon do "don't stab my face!" block position will pop it safely; i occasionally have to raise my arm all the way up to get it to pop.

and it's hard to tell from a short verbal description, but it may not be anything about the joint at all that's off-kilter; you could have a nerve to your arm getting pinched on it's way out of your spinal column. i used to have that happen to my right arm when i had bad posture while playing the violin... totally threw my upper back outta whack.

definitely see a doctor. some doctors will just dismiss back pain. try another doctor. try a highly recommended chiropracter. keep trying til someone helps!!!!! upper-back stuff is generally a lot easier to treat than lower-back stuff, so i think you'll find someone who can fix it up, whatever it is, pretty quickly!

[BigJon]

Maybe it's a pinched nerve. :shrug:

[BrewMaster]

I can move it fine from the elbow down. I can raise my arm about 6 inches before I get bad pain.

Thanks for your advice, I'll try and get an appointment this afternoon.
you may have sublexed (sp?) it recently. as far as i know, that is when your shoulder shifts painfully in the socket but it does not come out fully.

if you dislocated your shoulder, trust me, you'd know it, and you wouldn't wait to do something about it. i've had to put my left shoulder back in place 4 times (now surgically repaired) and my right shoulder back in place 3 times (still horribly broken). go see your doc and maybe see an orthopedist.

the way i always put my shoulders back in is by rotating my arm like I am doing the back stroke in a pool. it will pop back in place once your hand is pointing straight up. it hurts like hell and it throbs. ice it, take Advil, and try to sleep. good luck.