In September 2015 I injured my right shoulder and this has taken a long time to get better including doing daily rehab exercises and icing the shoulder. Itās still not good. As is common in so many soft tissue injuries the muscles around the shoulder tightened up and I ended up getting Golfers elbow also. A month later the second elbow started aching and now I have golfers elbow in both elbows.
At this point I had seen 3 doctors, a physiotherapist, a chiropractor and had x-rays to rule out any major damage to the shoulder structure. To me this was not normal, there were no reasons I was aware of why my body not healing itself. I wonder if there is something a little more systemic going on with my body.
I began to explore more about my body and symptoms however I could not find anything consistent online about my symptoms. Iāve now been tested for Rheumatoid Arthritis and had blood inflammatory markers tested, all of which came back negative to anything outside the normal.
I decided to go for a run in January this year and my heel began to ache after the run (20 minutes easy, low impact). I thought nothing of it other than to ice this and see how it went. This has led into inflammation of the heel at the insertion site of the Achilles tendon. I am now seeing a podiatrist about this.
Iāve taken a nutritional based approach to bringing my body toward optimum function with most of my daily in-take now whole foods. My daily food consumption follows the pattern below during the week
Breakfast: Fresh bowl of fruit (mainly berries but inc apple, banana and grapes) with organic yoghurt and a black coffee or two Or 2 poached eggs, ½ avocado and either smoked salmon, short-cut bacon or haloumi cheese.
Lunch: Steamed sweet-potato, steamed broccoli and poached or dry-fried chicken breast
Dinner: Finally chopped kale, ½  avocado, ½ grape-fruit and crispy skinned salmon or blue-eye cod fish.
Supplements: 1000mg or Curcumin, 495mg of magnesium supplements and fish-oil supplements.
I had occasionally smoked marijuana on the weekends and had a big night one night on the weekends. This has stopped and I am now limiting alcohol intake to 3-4 drinks over the weekend and no alcohol during the week days.
Why do I write about this? It takes focus to work through the rehab program for soft tissue injuries and given I now have 4 areas in my body which are all actively causing issues I am finding the rehab process is almost impossible to follow given the required time investment.