Shoulder pain with commencement

[Anonymous]

I had a previous shoulder injury, and because of that my left shoulder is weaker than the right. Even when I’m applying the 70% rule, my shoulder bursitis flares up. I don’t know whether this is because of the repetitive movement of raising the shoulder while doing the “peng” movement in commencement.

[Anonymous]

Hi Till, I also had a shoulder injury but my tai chi and qigong practices have cleared the injury (it is not a short process). Definitely need to keep the 70% rule in mind and you also need to check your form. The shoulders do not raise in peng – the arms float up but the shoulders remain dropped and relaxed. It would probably be helpful to have someone who can check your form for this.

[PaulCavel]

Hi Till,

The 70% rule is for when you are not injured. Bruce has mentioned when injured to take it down further to 50% or 25% or lower. If you inducing pain that is the opposite effect you want to have.

Best,

Richard

[Anonymous]

Imagine that your shoulders and elbows have weights hanging down off them. The shoulders should not raise and the elbows should be dropped. This should help de-activate certain points of tension.

The elbow thing actually helps relieve the shoulders also. You get a sense of the shoulders relaxing into the elbows.

Relax your shoulders outwards as well such that they expand a little (more like out and down), but don’t push them. They should still feel connected in the joints.

In any case I think you may be mis-interpreting the 70% rule. It’s not 70% of the height of the full movement but 70% of what you’re capable of doing. If it starts hurting then that’s probably closer to 100%.

What did your doctor tell you to do with it?

[Anonymous]

Richard, Cameron,
Thank you very much for great advices. I had this injury almost an year ago. But then with some physical therapy got better, and was kinda pain free almost an year. But you guys are right, I think I have to re evaluate the form, I might be raising the shoulder, which might be the reason for the strain. Doctor’s suggestion to build the strength slowly. Because they think the injury itself happened because my left side shoulder is weaker. so when I’m working long term in computer and an non-ergonomical position could lead the first injury. Since I had the first injury, I was pretty careful with the ergonomical posture for typing. I’ll try to evaluate the commencement posture again.
Thank you again.
Till

[Anonymous]

I know this is late , I had a really painful bursar inflamation but as a warm up – The marriage of heaven and earth – look at any thing by Paul Cavel. This Ql Gong iset is perfect for these injuries

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