[jyl]

For the first 50+ years of my life, crashing - off bikes, skateboards, skis, whatever - onto my shoulders just wasn’t a thing. It simply never happened or maybe I never noticed it. Now at the ripe old age of 61, every time I crash it is on my shoulders. Moreover, almost every time I suffer some manual work injury or misuse-of-body injury, it is to my shoulders - well, lower back too, I throw it out occasionally through violent trauma like “sleeping wrong” and “sneezing”.

A partial list, over the past several years:
- Left shoulder screwed up, turns out was because I’d extract myself from the 911’s racing bucket by putting my left upper arm on the B-pillar and levering my body out of the seat. Physical therapy, and re-installed the stock seat.
- Right shoulder separated, from a bicycle crash. More PT.
- Right shoulder had trouble raising arm high, from the damn summer of house siding stripping and sanding. Self administered PT at the gym, took a couple months to fix..
- Right shoulder slightly separated, from a skiing fall, the kind where you hook a tip and get body slammed to the snow. Self PT.
- Right shoulder again, another skiing fall. Resolved on its own in a couple weeks.
- Left shoulder, same kind of skiing fall. Feels like it will resolve in a short time, knock wood.

I decided maybe I need some preventative work on said shoulders, so have been doing shoulder exercises - shoulder flys with light weights. I think those may be helping me be a little more durable. I’m also more circumspect about lifting things over my head.

So hopefully the exercises will help, but it is weird that this previously cooperative part of my body is now such a drama queen.

Anyone else find that some hitherto uncomplaining body part is starting to complain more than the others? What is it for you, if not shoulders?