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Spin and more spin.
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Spin and more spin.
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Most certainly. Forgive me for being long-winded. I was desperate to find good info on how I can avoid shoulder impingement on my TT forehand drive with my shakehand grip and found good info on here. Needless to say I have learned a lot through the trauma and experience as I play a lot of tennis also and am relatively ignorant when it comes to TT.
If I go near certain swing paths and follow throughs I get extreme pain and impingement which completely inhibits me and helps me to miss sitters through fear of pain, yet I hit winners from much harder shots at times.
Some things have helped slightly such as suggestions to get low, swing from the hips and use the torso more, keep compact and not follow through past the midline etc. etc. I had a job to keep the bat face closed enough and at present the only thing that seems to help is to have the bat face more open on the take back and close it as I swing forward and also keep the handle pointing downwards (which may be helping to keep my elbow lower and avoid the impingement) I guess this is all probably unorthodox and may be would be regarded as a slap shot?
You also might consider things like strengthening your rotator cuff muscles as part of getting the shoulder to improve. Without knowing the injury, it is still an odds on bet that rotator cuff strengthening will be a helpful part of rehabilitating the shoulder since 98-99% of adults need that in the first place and the rotator cuff muscles are unique in how they act both as a muscle and as a ligament that holds the head of the femur in the glenohumeral joint (the ball and socket joint of the shoulder).