{"id":2413,"date":"2013-03-01T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2013-04-23T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:55:30","slug":"injured-abroad-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/2013\/03\/01\/injured-abroad-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Abroad: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will remember that in January I blogged<\/a> about how I got injured on my fabulous South East Asia Vacation in Dec 2012. \u00a0I injured my shoulder and spent about a month in pain. \u00a0Even after seeing doctors in Bangkok, the healing process seemed to take forever. They said I had pulled a muscle, how long does that take to heal? \u00a0Still in pain when I got home February 2nd, 2013, I had planned to see someone locally. \u00a0I think the 32 hour trip home really stressed out my shoulder because I woke up the second day home and couldn’t move my neck and my shoulder was so painful.<\/p>\n

I saw a doctor and the lesson I learned is that when you get injured abroad or anywhere, and you’re not getting better, seek more treatment and get another opinion. \u00a0My pulled muscle turned out to be a few things, the pulled muscle was masking the real issue – a torn rotator cuff – \u00a0no fun! \u00a0Luckily I have a great doctor and physical therapist and I’ll be fine – hopefully sometime soon.<\/p>\n

What I did learn from my doctor that I thought would be interesting to readers is that many very frequent flyers end up with rotator cuff injuries from continually lifting carry-on bags and putting them in the overhead bins. \u00a0His suggestion (and I’ll qualify by saying he was the former team doctor for the LA Kings Hockey Team for 7 years) don’t\u00a0over-pack\u00a0your carry-on, always lift it with two hands, not just one. He also suggested that you should stretch and reach to grab your bag out of a bin that’s not close by, that puts strain on the muscles in that area too. \u00a0How many times have you see the guy\/gal in front of your lean over two rows of seats to take his\/her bag out of the overhead. Even though checking bags is a pain, that’s my plan for the foreseeable future. I’ll just carry my lightweight, Slim Tumi Backpack on the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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