Dislocated shoulder in the car!!

[okgo]

Was driving into work this morning, went to make the right turn into the road our work I put my right arm at 7 o'clock on the wheel and went to turn(one handed, no left), and bang my arm popped right out of my shoulder and I hit the car in front!!!! Barely any damage thankfully. But it was an eye opener..
I have only ever done this once before, and it was in my sleep.

It did hurt, but the feeling of awkwardness as the arm goes the wrong way and is motionless was not nice!!

Has anyone else done similar?

[GTIR]

okgo said:

Was driving into work this morning, went to make the right turn into the road our work I put my right arm at 7 o'clock on the wheel and went to turn(one handed, no left), and bang my arm popped right out of my shoulder and I hit the car in front!!!! Barely any damage thankfully. But it was an eye opener..
I have only ever done this once before, and it was in my sleep.

It did hurt, but the feeling of awkwardness as the arm goes the wrong way and is motionless was not nice!!

Has anyone else done similar?

Asleep whilst driving!

[okgo]

It was very odd in my sleep, I tried to move it and nothing, thought my arm had been removed!

[ShadownINja]

Have you injured it before? It's possible that you weakened the joint in the past so you have to be careful. Damned annoying those rotator cuff injuries.

[LMC]

Ah, they don't advise the push-pull steering method for nothing you know

[okgo]

I don't think so, I am quite flexible, and have never done it before, apart from that time in my sleep.

My arms I shoudl think are rather heavy so bending them the wrong way and trying to do the wheel was too much!

[Silent_Assassin]

Phew that was close. When I saw the thread title I thought you had found one in your car...

[-Z-]

I have this, very annoying and pretty painful. Have had it happen a few times in my sleep. The worst is when you wake up juuuuuuust before it happens and like disarming a bomb, have to figure out exactly which movement will let it slip back into position.


Worst time it's happened is while rowing, single scull thin rowing boat (rolls over if you so much as pass wind) in the middle of a fast flowing Thames. Not fun!

Doc said they could wire the joint up but I passed on that, control it now by avoiding causative movements.

Edited by -Z- on Tuesday 24th February 11:20

[Robatr0n]

ShadownINja said:

Damned annoying those rotator cuff injuries.

[Swillsy]

you need to build your muscles up to help keep it from doing it again- there are exercises for it

[okgo]

Swillsy said:

you need to build your muscles up to help keep it from doing it again- there are exercises for it

How can I do this more than I have already.

I can press 110 KG, Dead 180 Kg surely this is adequate for shoulder strength?

[Silent_Assassin]

I'm still troubled by the image of a dislocated shoulder on the back seat of the car.. discarded like some piece of meat feshly cut from the butchers, but with the rest of the arm still attached..

[Robatr0n]

Pretty sure bench pressing is more related to your pecs.

I've never had trouble lifting weights but I can put my right shoulder out whilst training in sports. You need to work on strengthening the shoulder.

[okgo]

Robatr0n said:

Pretty sure bench pressing is more related to your pecs.

I've never had trouble lifting weights but I can put my right shoulder out whilst training in sports. You need to work on strengthening the shoulder.

I meant shoulder press sorry