muscle groups. Such as your bicep is much stronger than your tricep. This may be causing your healing issues. The imbalance also creates additional stress on your tendons, ligaments, etc leading to strains, sprains, tears. I have seen videos where baseball pitchers have this issue with the muscular imbalance in their shoulders due to the release point of their pitching motion. Where, I think, the front muscles of the shoulder are not as developed as the back shoulder muscles. If they take time away from pitching, and work to strengthen the weak portion of the shoulder muscles; they will regain speed and strength with their pitches when they start to throw again. @RoswellGAHokie ** Edited by JM397 at 6/3/2026, 8:01:40 AM ** Edited by JM397 at 6/3/2026, 8:14:56 AM

Beerman suggested yoga. I don’t think I’ll take a class, but will incorporate core exercises. Did some planks last night. I was surprised at how quickly I was getting shaky. So definitely need to do some work there.

later find out my quads and hamstrings were way off balance which caused a much worse injury to the lateral tendons around my knee. During rehab, I had to focus on strengthening these two muscles to make sure they were much more balanced along with lateral strength exercises for my knee. After coming back from the injury and rehab, I took more tackles on the knee. However the impacts were never as severe and damaging as the initial injury. Usually only took a few days with ice, rest, etc for recovery.

You might get PT, and it might work. PTs do what the insurance company allows them to do, and that's to get you being able to function in daily life. Find yourself a trainer who deals with restoring balance. I tore my adductor Magnus in high school. Took me years of dealing with it before I found a trainer who knew how to get rid of the imbalance that was not allowing to get better.

Seriously. The posterior chain is a hell of a thing. But 15 minutes of deep stretches every morning does wonders

I am almost 55 and I still play basketball and dek hockey. The only thing keeping me going is weight training. I do like 8 sets legs and 7 sets arms. Only do it a couple times a week. It helps me recover from injuries. I hate doing dead lifts at my age but I swear it really helps correct muscle imbalances I might have. But every one is different. A physical therapist could probably help you more than a doctor could unless you are convinced there is something structurally injured. Good luck.

Weird thing was that I could still shoot basketball, but I couldn’t throw a football without searing pain. I think any kind of muscle injury just takes forever to heal. Orthopedic doc may have a solution for you, though.

aches and pains are starting to linger.