Re: RC: Water Bucket Shoulder

["Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>]

The damage is further exacerbated by mucking and the motion used to shake 
the debris through the tines.


>From: "Linda B. Merims" <lbm@ici.net>
>Reply-To: lbm@ici.net
>To: ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:  Water Bucket Shoulder
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:44:08 -0700
>
>Does anybody else out there have a case of "water bucket shoulder"?
>
>I've got one and it is starting to really bother me, hurting all
>night long.  Turns out my barn manager has it too, and I am
>remembering that my Morgan mentor Mabel Owen told me she didn't
>handle her stallion much anymore because *her* shoulder would
>hurt her too much if he pulled on her even a bit.
>
>It seems to be a permanent injury in the shoulder, a pulled muscle
>or a damaged nerve or a torn ligament or something, caused by
>toting 5 gallon water buckets unilaterally that are just a bit
>too heavy for one's muscle strength.  My barn manager's doctor
>says it is similar to an injury baseball pitchers sustain.
>
>Wondering how widespread this is...
>
>Linda B. Ouch! Merims
>lbm@ici.net
>Massachusetts, USA
>
>
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