As recent as 2 weeks ago i was experiencing a loud crack and slight pain whenever i preformed an overhead motion. I could feel the 2 bones grinding together to produce a sound as loud as the cracking of knuckles. This was caused by repetetive motion of overhead stroke. Now, i am happy to say i have recovered to about 85% as there is virtually no pain or sound. I would like to thank the people who provided postive comments in this thread : http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18794&highlight=shoulder+crack and especially thx to turdz who provided this website :http://familydoctor.org/265.xml which provides excercices on strengthining the rotorary cuff area. This website was more helpful then my real life family doctor who was of little help and just told me doctors cannot work magic. These are the simple steps which i followed to help my arm become better: -read carefully and preformed the excercies stated in http://familydoctor.org/265.xml every other day -occasionaly massaged arm with 紅花油 For those of you who were wondering i did not cut off on my regular badminton schedule , 3- 4 times a week. Thx to those excercises, i find my strokes expecially overhead, stronger and easier to preform To summarize, i think the main way to help joint problems is to strenghthen that areas muscles and WARM UP!
Good stuff, mightymuscle! We all have to do those 'extra' maintenance workout to stay fit in order to play baddy, especially when the rallies get more intense!
Thanks for the tips and links, mightymuscle. I've tried to do the same exercises using cable-pulls at the gym, but the most effective method are the ones the link describes, i.e. on a bench or using free weights. -dave
Ok, it's 2018 and I googled up this exact issue got to this thread and tried the exercises to great success. It legitimately removed the "grinding" sound and pain I got when I performed the motions of smash and now I'm fine. The link he gives doesn't work for me (might be a location thing cuz I'm in Aus) but the equivalent exercises are here. https://familydoctor.org/rotator-cuff-exercises/
