I’m currently not taking part in scrimmaging and only doing light contact as I have a bad shoulder.

It’s frustrating.

I’m getting pain under my shoulder blade and although it is getting better (it was a stabbing pain before, now it’s changed to being sore). My sports Physio has said that it is due to a trapped nerve which he is trying to work out – I’ve now had two sessions with him and he thinks I’ll need a third but no more to fix the problem totally.

This diagram shows perfectly where the pain is:

I have been having problems with my shoulder for about three weeks know and have seen both the doctor and a sports Physio and they both agree that it’s down to bad posture – I sit at my desk all day long badly! But they don’t both agree on the treatment and/or whether or not I can play derby or even any kind of sport….

I’ve had conflicting advice from the sports Physio and my Doctor with the sports Physio has said that I can do contact, it wont make it worse but it will hurt as long as I have good posture (!) and  the doctor has told me not to do any contact or even any sport at all but I need physiotherapy but not sports Physio.

I have bouted in a tournament as a blocker, with this bad shoulder and it didn’t hurt any more but I’m vary wary at scrimmagages but perhaps shouldn’t be.

I think sometimes when you play derby you want to rush back to playing without being properly fixed – which is where I’m at now (three weeks is a long time especially when I’ve got new skates!) but I think I need to be patient and heal properly before jumping back in.