Pool related injuries and their remedies

I've had my pride hurt mutiple times and found the best remedy was to just keep on playing through the pain until I felt better about myself. Seriously though, I'd give it time to go away and if it didn't, go get it checked out. I don't appreciate feeling good until I feel bad. It's easy to take your health for granted until you feel unhealthy. Good luck.
 
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I have back pain, I went to the doctor and told him it hurts when I play pool. He said "Stop playing pool"

Now he complain of a pain in his scrotum region. Go figure:rolleyes:
 
I get a little bit of bursitis in my left (bridge) shoulder every now and then. If it's bothering me and I'm planning on playing for a few hours, I try to remember to take an anti-inflammatory before starting. Seems to help.

Other pool injuries:
I'll occasionally pull my final backstroke just a little bit too far back on my break shot, then proceed to smash the tip into my thumb or bridge finger.

A few weeks ago, I was practicing my closed-bridge, head spot break. I practiced it for so long that I developed a nasty little blister on the cue side of my middle finger. I had to wear a glove for almost a week, just to shoot regular shots.

Last week in league, I broke too hard and knocked my cue ball onto the adjacent table. It landed almost on top of my league teammate's cue ball, right as he was shooting. That was a close call, but thankfully nobody was injured.
 
I developed what my doc calls "tennis elbow" about three months after installing my table. My bad back acts up after an hour or two as well. Playing with pain is a real deterent to pocketing and I'm working on strengthing my back and treating my elbow but without much result so far.

It's a b*tC% to get old.
 
TXsouthpaw said:
Just wondering if anyone else here has had physical problems from playing too much pool, and if so how did they fix it.

I put table in a couple of months ago and ive just lately had the time to play on it. Well after putting in 4 hours a night for a couple of nights straight ive started to get a sharp pain in my bridge shoulder. It only comes when i play for over 45 minutes. Im hopin its temporary as im too young to start breaking down already. Anyways ice and ibuprofen are working but i havent really tested it so i guess we'll see this weekend.
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Anyone else out there ever had a pool related injury?
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that bridge shoulder thing happened to me when I first started regimented practice.. I added a short set of push ups and sit ups every other day I started with 3 sets of 10 for each and grew from there..

the added core strength allowed me to remain still more easily without putting as much weight on that arm..and building the muscle of the shoulder up helped it take weight more easily.

within a month my shoulder pain stopped and it's never come back
 
Concussions, although infrequent, do happen.
As a matter of fact, I came home from the pool hall one night, told my old lady that I had just lost next months rent playing One Pocket, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in the Emergency Room with a headache. :smile:
 
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