swimming

Usually about four weeks.

by Theknotguy - 2018-01-06 11:29:23

You need to make sure the wound is completely healed with the steri strips/sutures gone and the scabs are gone.  You don't want a chance of an infection around the PM site. Then light movements until the PM pocket gets stretched out and the underlying wound area heals.  

I got in a big hurry and threw the ball for the dog and stretched out the underlying wound area before it had had a chance to heal.  Felt like someone tore off my shoulder.  Took me another four weeks until it quit hurting.   My fault.  So you'll want to take it easy.  

Then it was a long time before I had 100% movement as I would sometimes move in a different way and it would feel like I was pulling/tearing something.  So, eventually everything gets stretched out and you're back to normal exercise.  Still get sore if I start doing heavy exercise and stretch stuff a little more than normal but that goes for the rest of the body too.  

Obviously I wouldn't go for strenuous swimming such as the butterfly stroke.  Probably keep it to a light frog kick alternating with a medium speed crawl stroke.  Possibly even the trudgeon trawl stroke as it will give you a full body workout without pushing it too hard.  

Hope you can get back to swimming soon.

2 weeks in my case

by Snake - 2018-02-03 15:27:54

I had my PM inplanted in June last year.

They told me not to swim, shower or walk in the rain for 2 weeks.

After that it was allowed again. Only restriction was that I should not stretch my left arm for 6 weeks. So the first 4 weeks I was swimming with one arm (pretty intensive by the way).

After that I was back to 60 laps (25 meter pool), 7 days a week.

exercise anyway

by tobydell - 2018-02-07 07:50:33

thanks for the advice, it has been a month now and each day it feels a little more "healed"  and working well, i have been places and exerted more in the last week that i could not have done before, why is it that interesting spanish castles are always at the top of really steep hills!