{"id":1340,"date":"2008-01-11T19:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T23:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2008\/01\/11\/a-pop-on-my-shoulder\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T23:24:39","slug":"a-pop-on-my-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"A pop on my shoulder .."},"content":{"rendered":"

My right arm is useless due to pain or tennis elbow.\u00a0 But not playing hurts even\u00a0more \ud83d\ude42 so I went to the badminton last night.\u00a0 The lower right arm wouldn’t cooperate, so I had to make ado with my left.\u00a0 It felt funny and looked silly probably.\u00a0 I played a set with Yvonne (?) against Jenny and Tina .. ya the Tina I haven’t seen in ages and she said she’d\u00a0come, another reason I went last night.\u00a0 We had good match, but at the same time I felt frustrated, \u5fc3\u6709\u4f59\u513f\u529b\u4e0d\u8db3<\/font>\u00a0missing shots left and right.\u00a0 We lost 15:9.\u00a0 Then I lost with Robert to Mike and Katie.\u00a0 John left early, Simon had no one to play, looked bored, :).\u00a0 I played a set with him and won.\u00a0 During the match, I switched to my right arm trying to save a lethal return.\u00a0 The pain made me stopped in the middle of the swing.\u00a0 Well, I was trying to see if I could play with my right arm too, not meant to cheat. ..<\/span><\/p>\n

That was my ordeal of yesterday, or past couple of weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew gave me a zhongyi Chinese medicine practitioner Danny Sun, said he knows how to treat tennis elbow.\u00a0 Danny sounded old over the phone, with missing teeth perhaps.\u00a0 He has a small co-op where he has his practice.\u00a0 It’s cramped, has strong food odor and he only looks like in his 50s and very agile.\u00a0 In person, he doesn’t sound like the old guy I perceived.\u00a0 There are pile of papers on his small desk adjancant\u00a0to the door.\u00a0 “Oh, you’re practicing calligraphy?”\u00a0 That’s so so so neat.\u00a0 He smiled, “oh, not at the moment .. but sometimes I do.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Without asking too much, he told me to lay face down on the table and began tuina, massage that last 40 minutes or so.\u00a0 Nothing overly unbearable, but it wasn’t a cake walk either.\u00a0 He massaged my neck, shoulders, back.\u00a0 Then turned\u00a0face up, he massaged more on my arms.\u00a0 Next step was sit up right.\u00a0 He pulled my right arm straight up, relax my lower right, put in behind my head and began rock it back and forth gently.\u00a0 Then without\u00a0warning, he snapped\u00a0it hard (pulled back).\u00a0 There was a pop and sharp pain, but normalcy returned immediately.\u00a0 As if nothing had happened.\u00a0 “Did you hear it?”\u00a0 “yes.”\u00a0 “I have to loosen (prepare) it for the pull.”\u00a0 He gave me his hand, asking me to grip it hard, I was able to.\u00a0 Then he asked me to hold up the stood I just sat on horizontally.\u00a0 I was able to too.\u00a0 Without any discomfort.\u00a0 “You shouldn’t feel any pain.\u00a0 .. but your back will feel bit of pain for\u00a0couple of days to come ..\u00a0”\u00a0he told me.\u00a0 Pain?\u00a0 What pain?\u00a0 Who’s pain? Where’s pain?\u00a0 When’s pain?\u00a0?? \u00a0AAAmazing.\u00a0 Tennis anyone?\u00a0 Please?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My right arm is useless due to pain or tennis elbow.\u00a0 But not playing hurts even\u00a0more \ud83d\ude42 so I went to the badminton last night.\u00a0 The lower right arm wouldn’t cooperate, so I had to make ado with my left.\u00a0 It felt funny and looked silly probably.\u00a0 I played a set with Yvonne (?) against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}