The aquakinetic program has brought me back from a shoulder replacement!

I will provide a personal example of how water based exercise is beneficial to pitchers. In the mid-80's when I was a college baseball player at a top juco in Florida, I damaged my rotator cuff (there were many functional issues behind this, what I know now is I did waaay too much bench pressing, curls, etc - all traditional because we did not know any better - so I damaged the decelerators because they were weak and front was too strong) late in my soph season. I knew immediately the day after I pitched and tried to play catch, and the feeling was if something was "unattached". I skipped a start, rested, then pitched again in crucial game, after taking a long time to warm up. And I pitched 10 innings that day! My next start was in state tourney game 1, and I went 8+ in a win.

Here is the good part. Knowing we would be playing every day, and that we had a 3 man rotation, I wanted to pitch again asap. We stayed in a hotel, so day after my start, I got in hotel pool, and did as many ranges of motion, using actions from "thrower's 10" dumbbell exercises, as I could. My shoulder really responded to this. I even did it again that evening, and again next day. My arm felt much better, so with tourney on line, I went to coach and asked for ball on 2 days rest. I went 7+, but lost.

Unfortunately, I did not continue to act on my intuition fully, and went back to lifting routines, and worked even "harder" in weight room after I transferred to DI school. And of course I hurt shoulder again during senior year.

Of course, now I know that I tore supraspinatus. In time it healed. In mid-90's I coached small college baseball, and had players lift traditionally. But, now that I have been exposed to SSL, and have used exercises myself, I know what works best, and it is NOT the traditional conventional wisdom.

This advice is timely for me. I just strained a couple of muscles in my leg doing sprint sets and was wondering if getting back in the pool for AquaKinetic training was such a good idea. Looks like I will be getting in there today!

Like the "baseballprofessor", I suffered a severe stretch to the supraspinatus, as well as injury to the anterior deltoid, doing a dumbell press, after some explosive barbell work.

To make a long story short, after four months of therapy, it was the AquaKinetics program that finally brought my shoulder structure to its ultimate healing. Hot/cold compresses alleviated the pain, and I had some great liniments to work with, but until Aquakinetics, all the dynamic approaches (e.g., resistance bands, light weights, basketball ball handling and dribbling) only served to exacerbate the situation.

What really gets me is how all the medical people and trainers, that I consulted, were totally clueless about the injury. I am surprised that Mo Williams, of the Cleveland Cavaliers, was able to resume play after two months. I needed four.

I recently came across the Sports Science lab and Gavin MacMillian worked with me to recover my shoulder injury. I feel better then I have in months and am still recovering, this stuff works trust me I have seen the results