Table Tennis arm and shoulder injury - Allwood vs Composite

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Eduardo, this doesn't necessarily have to be the case.

I've developed a pain in the elbow about 18 months ago. My usual doctor gave me painkillers but after a couple of weeks nothing happened nothing got better. He also told me to massage the area and even tried to get rid of the inflammation by using ultrasonic but nothing has helped.

Meanwhile the pain moved from my elbow to my upper arm/shoulder as I still tried to keep playing (and losing to far weaker opponents)
The pain wasn't constantly but rather appeared during certain motions. But unlike to you i could still use my backhand but whenever i tried to make rapid movements with the fh it almost felt as if someone stabbed a knife in my upper arm. But mostly when looping or serving.
Since the pain didn't disappear even after more than a year i was pretty close to quit playing, but then i met an old friend who comes visit our club every now and then, and while we had a beer after practice somehow we came to Talk about the pain in my arm, and he told me that he had the same problems a while ago and couldn't hit one fh topspin without pain and told me that he went to see an american chiropractic specialist who made the pain disappear within minutes. So then I went to see that specialist and you probably wouldn't believe it, but after a few minutes THE PAIN WAS GONE!

Before we first had a little chat and she said that the pain most likely was caused by a heavy car accident where my car got smashed by a truck and a few sections in my spine that got dislocated. While adjusting my spine she also found out that my biceps strain was dislocated and that has caused the heavy pain while looping.

Anyhow.... now I'm fine and more motivated than ever.
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I'm currently with pain in my shoulder, and it has some similarities to what you had.
It doesn't hurt all the time, the pain appears in some movements too, and is an acute pain.
My doctor gave me an anti-inflammatory, but didn't work. X-ray exam didn't show anything wrong, and neither the ultrasonic exam.
In my case it didn't started on my elbow tough, it was on shoulder since the beginning.
My pain started in november and I played till december. I rested almost all January to see if it would get better, but nothing changed, I still have the same level of pain.

I will go to my doctor again. If he doesn't find a solution, I might try to go to a chiropractic too.
Thanks for sharing this!
 
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Thank you for the answer! ;) I didn't changed yet, but I've already ordered them to change, as I think that I'll benefit more from SP! I got the injury with the inverted. But with chinese in BH I need to make much effort on my BH stroke, and my injury started on BH.

But maybe you're right. I've been praticing in one of my clubs and mostly I play there with players that are lower level than my and the praticing consistency are not so good, the number of balls we hit is not too much, but in the last two weeks I was on vacation after college exams and praticed more frequently on my other club and multiball drill with my chinese coach and where the players are equal and better level than me, so the pratice was more physical demanding than I was used to, as I wasn't used to practice so well since some time ago. Probably could be that, so maybe I could give a change with SP on my allwood and if the pain comeback I could change to a composite then. Because I have nothing against my BT777, it's a great blade and I like the allwood feel with 7 ply solidness(I always said I hate allwood, but I had only tried 5 ply, never 7 ply).

I was asking that because I know a player that play in my league that changed from a Korbel to a Viscaria because he had a back injury. With his Viscaria, the strokes would be less physical demanding, less body rotation, etc.

I could try that, I have rubber bands in my house so! Maybe I need some rest first and then I'll try it, thanks once again! :D
I've switched from Korbel to Viscaria, and the pushes were easy, everything becomes easier but, I've realized that I have a limit, so I've been come back to Korbel, and using the 5 ply is harder but I have more confidence to hit harder, by the way to your injury I've been passing the same, so my advice is, warm warm warm, go from less to more, and don't forget use whole your body, it's difficult get used to it, but you'll get a better technique and won't harm yourself anymore, I'm using a rubber band too, so right now, take care and recover your arm, after don't forget warm and use the "power from the ground"

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Eduardo, this doesn't necessarily have to be the case.

I've developed a pain in the elbow about 18 months ago. My usual doctor gave me painkillers but after a couple of weeks nothing happened nothing got better. He also told me to massage the area and even tried to get rid of the inflammation by using ultrasonic but nothing has helped.

Meanwhile the pain moved from my elbow to my upper arm/shoulder as I still tried to keep playing (and losing to far weaker opponents)
The pain wasn't constantly but rather appeared during certain motions. But unlike to you i could still use my backhand but whenever i tried to make rapid movements with the fh it almost felt as if someone stabbed a knife in my upper arm. But mostly when looping or serving.
Since the pain didn't disappear even after more than a year i was pretty close to quit playing, but then i met an old friend who comes visit our club every now and then, and while we had a beer after practice somehow we came to Talk about the pain in my arm, and he told me that he had the same problems a while ago and couldn't hit one fh topspin without pain and told me that he went to see an american chiropractic specialist who made the pain disappear within minutes. So then I went to see that specialist and you probably wouldn't believe it, but after a few minutes THE PAIN WAS GONE!

Before we first had a little chat and she said that the pain most likely was caused by a heavy car accident where my car got smashed by a truck and a few sections in my spine that got dislocated. While adjusting my spine she also found out that my biceps strain was dislocated and that has caused the heavy pain while looping.

Anyhow.... now I'm fine and more motivated than ever.
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Thank you Suga D! :D I have an appointment with an orthopedist this wednesday, maybe he probably will say to make X -Ray and give some painkillers also, but I have that in mind if the pain dont go away! Here's one chiropratic specialist that people say that he's good! Thank you for the advice!
 
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I've switched from Korbel to Viscaria, and the pushes were easy, everything becomes easier but, I've realized that I have a limit, so I've been come back to Korbel, and using the 5 ply is harder but I have more confidence to hit harder, by the way to your injury I've been passing the same, so my advice is, warm warm warm, go from less to more, and don't forget use whole your body, it's difficult get used to it, but you'll get a better technique and won't harm yourself anymore, I'm using a rubber band too, so right now, take care and recover your arm, after don't forget warm and use the "power from the ground"

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Thank you Dominus7! :D Yeah I found my kind of blades also(7 ply clipperlike). It's as you say, a Viscaria you have to use a shorter movements and if you don't don't pratice systematically it turn's difficult to handle, though can be fun. I felt the same when I tried a Viscaria for the first time and also changed to a slower blade. I just mentioned to change to a composite because I thought that could be good to don't force too much my arm, though I prefer a 7 ply allwood.

Yeah you're right, I didn't use to do a good warm up before the pain appeared! My arm and shoulder will have their rest and I'll return when their fully recovered! ;)
 
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Thank you Suga D! :D I have an appointment with an orthopedist this wednesday, maybe he probably will say to make X -Ray and give some painkillers also, but I have that in mind if the pain dont go away! Here's one chiropratic specialist that people say that he's good! Thank you for the advice!

So what did your doctor say?

P.S. your usage of Chinese rubber for BH is quite unusual. Usually, Chinese rubbers are used for FH as they require more power to use them (hard non tensor sponges, tackiness) and so FH is much more powerfull than BH.
As you mentioned your problem with your BH was that tensor rubbers were too powerfull for you and your balls flew over the table. So you switched to chinese style rubbers to reduce the power effect you get from tensors. And maybe ended with a rubber which requires too much power to engage it and got traumatised or smth.
So now instead of changing a blade to a faster one to compensate for your lack of power in BH to fit your chinese rubber, why don't you switch your BH rubber back to regular EU style rubber less powerful? You can go to non tensors like jack-of-all-trades sriver, markV or smth...
 
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as Suga D suggests, you should try anything to remove your pain.
If Chiropractic doesn't work for you, perhaps you should try acupuncture ? it works quite well for me.

I think you should also think about your gameplay and put less strain on your shoulder. Your coach should be able to teach you a better technique to play without pain. I had a shoulder injury because i was using too much my shoulder when doing BH. I'm playing now close to the table taking the ball off the bounce with a short stroke, i don't need the shoulder at all. My coach told me we should be able to play BH while putting a tennis ball inside the shoulder.

Also the TT ball is very light. We don't need power, we just need good technique and good timing. At our level, with modern blades / rubbers, most of the time there is absolutely no need to hit the ball hard. just spin it, and if you use existing speed and time the ball well, even far from the table its pretty easy to make a fast powerful shot.

I am way way more relaxed now in my play than I used to be. My shoulder is still hurting, if i don't warm up properly especially if i do too many BH only. If i try shoulder press at the machines, the pain would immediately come back. Even going to the pool doing some crawl i'm a bit wary of it but thanks god i can swim again if i am careful. More importantly i can play TT for hours now my technique has changed.
 
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So what did your doctor say?

P.S. your usage of Chinese rubber for BH is quite unusual. Usually, Chinese rubbers are used for FH as they require more power to use them (hard non tensor sponges, tackiness) and so FH is much more powerfull than BH.
As you mentioned your problem with your BH was that tensor rubbers were too powerfull for you and your balls flew over the table. So you switched to chinese style rubbers to reduce the power effect you get from tensors. And maybe ended with a rubber which requires too much power to engage it and got traumatised or smth.
So now instead of changing a blade to a faster one to compensate for your lack of power in BH to fit your chinese rubber, why don't you switch your BH rubber back to regular EU style rubber less powerful? You can go to non tensors like jack-of-all-trades sriver, markV or smth...


Thank for asking! :D Well he said that he didn't find anything now, that could be some inflamation. As I got much better with this two weeks rest, he said that I could return to practice, and if the pain returns to stop to make an X-Ray. My doctor played tennis when he was younger so he undestand about composite vs wood rackets, despite it's tennis. I asked him if a composite blade could solve my problem, he said if the effort was less, that I could change. But about it i don't know yet, I have to decide but probably I'll stick with my 7 ply as I'm happy with it, and I feel my problem came from my BH technique, and I've changed to short pips as I only hit and probably (hope so) this pain don't comeback ;).

Well you're right about it. But as after poly ball I've seen some chinese players changing to H3, my usual pratice partner uses H3 37º on BH and he can play quite well with it, make some strong BH loops with it, and my chinese coach is always talking how chinese rubbers are better than eurojap ones, so I decided to give it a try. He got very happy when I've changed to chinese on FH, and he got even happier when I change my BH to chinese rubber.

My problem with Tenergies/Tensors was the bounciness and the spin sensivity. I ended always lobbing with my BH(probably not the rubbers fault, it's my technique as I've learned to play with backhand a bit late and that made me too FH oriented). With chinese rubber on BH I got more linearity. With slow shots the ball was really slow and spinny. With hard shots the ball was really fast with a great arc. And the feel with my allwood blade was splendid. The quality on my BH in practice improved a lot, I can't say the same in matches, as in matches whenever the ball goes to my BH I tend to have late reaction and I hit the ball or lob instead of loop, so was to force me to have the attitude to loop, as If i din't loop, was probably that I would lose the point.

Besides that, the other downside was to engage the top gear of the rubber, I had to hit really hard. And probably my BH technique isn't good(certainly :p) I ended up with this pain.

Chinese was my last opportunity to continue with inverted on my BH. Although wasn't the right rubber to me, it was so pleasant to practice with, and it was forcing me what I 've been trying to do a couple years ago(loop with my BH instead of hitting/lobbing).

Now I've changed to SP on BH and let's see. It's natural for me to hit the ball, and with SP I'll probably could stay closer to the table easier. Hitting doesn't make my arm and shoulder hurt, so it can be safe! :D If not, I'll do it as you say, change to a control rubber in backhand and just hit and block! ;)
 
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Make sure you have a somewhat soft short pimple rubber. Some are rockhard and you need alot of efftort to play with.
 
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as Suga D suggests, you should try anything to remove your pain.
If Chiropractic doesn't work for you, perhaps you should try acupuncture ? it works quite well for me.

I think you should also think about your gameplay and put less strain on your shoulder. Your coach should be able to teach you a better technique to play without pain. I had a shoulder injury because i was using too much my shoulder when doing BH. I'm playing now close to the table taking the ball off the bounce with a short stroke, i don't need the shoulder at all. My coach told me we should be able to play BH while putting a tennis ball inside the shoulder.

Also the TT ball is very light. We don't need power, we just need good technique and good timing. At our level, with modern blades / rubbers, most of the time there is absolutely no need to hit the ball hard. just spin it, and if you use existing speed and time the ball well, even far from the table its pretty easy to make a fast powerful shot.

I am way way more relaxed now in my play than I used to be. My shoulder is still hurting, if i don't warm up properly especially if i do too many BH only. If i try shoulder press at the machines, the pain would immediately come back. Even going to the pool doing some crawl i'm a bit wary of it but thanks god i can swim again if i am careful. More importantly i can play TT for hours now my technique has changed.

Yeah, now the pain stopped. Let's see next week when I'll return to practice! If the pain returns I'll have to make an X-Ray and see what I should do, but I that happens I'll inform me about accupunture and chiropractic :)

My coach changed my FH technique with a lot of multiball drills, because I used too much shoulder an he said me that If I don't change my technique I would be retired in 2-3 years with a shoulder injury. Fortunately I'll changed and my FH technique is good! But he's been trying the same with my BH, he's always trying to correct me but it has been difficult, probably my muscle memory has a bad BH stroke and I can't correct it. So I've decided to change to SP, because I wan't to make my BH effective on my game(hope it does :D).

I play much more relaxed, but on my FH. In backhand I can hit relaxed, but relaxed BH loop it's much more difficult to me. I've returned to my physical workout and my arm or shoulder don't hurt me, so I hope that it can be only an inflamation too :D

Thank you for your answer and I hope you can continue also to play without injuries! ;)
 
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Make sure you have a somewhat soft short pimple rubber. Some are rockhard and you need alot of efftort to play with.

I bought 802-40 2.0mm to start! I'm prepared to endure some losses, but if I see that this can bring benefits to my BH in order to use it more effectively I'll stick with it, maybe not with 802-40, but I'll stick with short pimples ;)
 
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I meant that if it is very hard it can make your shouldet worse. With a soft rubber this would not be the hade i think. I think you should boost the short pimple or use one with Bulut in glue effect. It May be to slow otherwise which Will make it hard to smash and Maybe also hard for your shoulder.

I also think you should try to listen to your shoulder. In my opinion it can be easier to get shoulder issues with short pimple rubber, atleast on the forehand since you want short contact you need to tense a little and stop the stroke.
 
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I meant that if it is very hard it can make your shouldet worse. With a soft rubber this would not be the hade i think. I think you should boost the short pimple or use one with Bulut in glue effect. It May be to slow otherwise which Will make it hard to smash and Maybe also hard for your shoulder.

I also think you should try to listen to your shoulder. In my opinion it can be easier to get shoulder issues with short pimple rubber, atleast on the forehand since you want short contact you need to tense a little and stop the stroke.

Yeah I put 2 layers of Falco. You're right, but I'll just start with this one because I never played with SP. Spinpips would be a faster option but for now I can't afford it!

Let's see how the pain progress. I want to keep to practice my inverted strokes on BH, as it's always good to have them in a practice situation, but I don't want to practice that hard on BH, just the enough to retain the inverted feel, nothing like before. Never played with SP so I don't know what to expect, theoretically, as I mostly need to hit with them it wouldn't be harmful because that doesn't makes my arm hurt, but hitting with SP it's different than inverted, like you saying, I need to make more tense to do a short stroke, so let's see this week how my arm and shoulder behaves with it! Thank you! :D
 
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Yesterday I had my first pratice after my shoulder and arm pain! Until now, the pain didn't return, so I hope it goes like this! Ofc I made a good warmup, especially in my arm and shoulder before start!

It was also my first pratice with SP on backhand(802-40 2.0 boosted), and my first thoughts about it:

What is good:

- Easy to hit and block;
- I even can do banana flicks;
- My backhand receives are much better, when opponent serves to my BH I don't need to pivot to use my FH, which makes me avoid more effort.
- They seem very easy to chop if for some reason I go more far from table, probably don't create much difficulties to opponent too;
- Easier to be "in the control" of the point. Usually I was almost never in control of the point so I could not unleash my FH entirely and with SP I feel I can prepare easier point to finish with FH.

What is bad:

- Feel that the biggest change will be in FH, I should have quicker recovery, loop closer to the table and a shorter stroke. Im confident I could improve that, my FH can adapt easily as it's a strong point that I have;
- Wish my 7 ply could be a little thicker/stiffer, P777 is around 6.1mm/6.2mm and feels a little flexy and with small sweetspot for short pips.

What I need to improve:

- Coordination between FH-BH / BH-FH, making a shorter FH stroke;
- Make my game closer to the table;
- Need to play more aggressive;
- Quicker recovery from strokes.

I think I will get better with SP, at least it will make me more aggressive and more closer to the table. For now I'm enjoying this pips, but in future I'll change it to something a bit faster, I'm thinking about Spinpips Red, as they are not much deceptive like 802-40 which I want but with an extra kick!

About the blade, I think a bit thicker would solve my problem(not for now, as it's enough to improve my BH pips stroke, but next season or so). A Clipper/Clipper CR would be a bad choice as I find it too thick and didn't have a good experience before. I thought on the following ones:

- Avalox P700(afraid it will be too thick also, it's 6.8mm);
- Nittaku Ludeack Fleet(Afraid that the glassfiber will remove the wood feeling that I have). I know it's 6.2, but the composite layers give it a bigger sweetspot and more stiffness without increasing thickness;
- Sword Tan Ruiwu(6.5mm, my favourite choice, and it's allwood and enough thick to pimples and enough flex too loop, but unfortunately I don't know how to find it).

I wish I had tried SP before, it very happy with them! But the most important, the pain didn't returned until now!
 
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I could you suggest to try Victas FireFall SC i found it most suitable for pips compared to Avalox P700, Clipeer CR , Ludeack Power and several others which are not so popular.
The blade was recommeded by representative of Victas Europe when i asked for advice which blade goes well with pips and is not extremly fast.
Also I`ve tested a "dozen" of SP and MP and could advise you to stick with boosted 802-40 if you inted to be agressive with the pips.
And finally i`m sure you will get very memorable matches both loses and wins.
 
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I could you suggest to try Victas FireFall SC i found it most suitable for pips compared to Avalox P700, Clipeer CR , Ludeack Power and several others which are not so popular.
The blade was recommeded by representative of Victas Europe when i asked for advice which blade goes well with pips and is not extremly fast.
Also I`ve tested a "dozen" of SP and MP and could advise you to stick with boosted 802-40 if you inted to be agressive with the pips.
And finally i`m sure you will get very memorable matches both loses and wins.

Thank you for your feedback! :) I've searched about that blade, it's 2 carbon innerfiber? That blade seems too fast for me right now, I got back to allwood blades, I've found allwood suit me better with poly ball. Thanks also for the pips advice! I've never tried Spinpips Red, was just a thought. But I can do pretty fast flat hits with 802-40 and I'm enjoying them! ;) And I tried a teammate's setup(A.Mazunov with victas VO > 102) and despite I didn't like the blade, the pips seemed extremely fast and uncontrollable for me. The 802-40 seemed much more controlled, but I could flat fast hits with them!

Hope so! Thank you once again!
 
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Glad, your plan seems to workout.
Hope you don't start missing the feeling of spinning the ball with your BH. But most important is that you're painfree.

Good luck, Eduardo.

Hope it goes like this! This week I've only had 1 practice session, and so far so good! Next week I'll practice at least twice and I'll have a tournament next Saturday(23rd February) and let's see if I can still be like this without pain!

Yeap, hurted me a bit to remove inverted from BH, as generating spin is what I like most in TT, and I could do it well in BH, despite my technique that could not be the best... But that wasn't effective on my match play because time I got out of position almost every time that I try a BH loop, and hitting was much easier. And I think I lost much time improving my BH loop and I didn't try to practice my strong points, always BH and transitions between BH and FH, but that was always ineffective to me. And (at least for now!) with SP I don't feel that problem, as hitting in mach play it comes natural.

But I practised also inverted loop(but less than before). I don't wan't to lose spin sensibility on BH, and despite that, I think it's good to have solid inverted strokes(enough to our teammates pratice with us), I had a solid BH block before and I'll try to not lose it, it's good for now, and maybe for coaching in the future, if I get into it! :D

Thank you Suga D! Good Luck and TT for you too! ;)
 
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How is your shoulder, Eduardo?
I hope all is well.
Upsidedowncarl and Baal have made some posts about these issues as well.

Maybe it can help too.
Carl might have something to add to this.
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This stretch is very helpful for tennis elbow.


This is another.


If you search online for stretches for tennis elbow you will find more stretches for forearm that can help tennis elbow.

Part of what is going on is that the muscles in your forearm that attach to an area on the radius and ulna are tight and stressed from overwork. So they need to be GENTLY stretched and they need to relax. So the stretches I showed should be done gently and not be done in a way that is too deep.

Here are photos of another stretch that is really the same but a little easier to do in a gentle way:

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You turn your hand out slowly:

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You only turn out to where you can. I am turning to where I feel useful stretch. Not farther:

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And then the wrist going the other way for a few moments is useful:

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Things like this will help tennis elbow get better. These are likely some of the stretches Dan was talking about.


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I teach at a medical school and have kept up to date on tendon issues because I have experienced them at some points.

The stretches might help, they won't hurt if you are reasonable. The literature says, though, that it doesn't work for everybody. And steroid injections have in some patients made the problem worse, not better.

One thing for sure, you need to take enough time off and "playing through it" is absolutely terrible advice. You may need to take a couple additional weeks. Make no mistake about it, the repetitive use of the tendon in a certain way is inducing a degenerative process and the cells in the tendon (tenocytes) are changing. Tendon is living dynamic tissue. In the worst cases, tennis elbow (or wrist) can become quite chronic so that it hurts all the time and hampers daily life. The tendon will regenerate if you give it a chance. But that means you need to stop doing the things that are breaking it down and that means you have to take enough time off, as much as it sucks to not play.

Once you start again, you need to do something different or the tendonopathy will simply recur. There is a lot of mechanical stress at on particular point along the tendon that happens on some subset of shots you are hitting (often from the backhand if you are like a lot of people I know). It may not need to be a huge change to reduce this. Something that could work is to get a blade with a quite different handle shape that forces you to change your grip. Grip changes while playing can be enough to solve this, and a handle shape change may make it happen naturally, although it may not be necessary. Maybe a slightly lighter setup, or a faster rubber on the side of the stroke that is causing your problems. Maybe to not hold the handle so tight, or to relax your entire upper body more when playing. It is hard to know without seeing you play or knowing exactly where and when it hurts.
 
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The Tennis Elbow stretches may not be so good for shoulder issues.

TT can be hard on the shoulder. Especially when everyone wants to copy the FH the way the top CNT players do it with the whole arm.

In TT, when you have a shoulder issue, learning how to do the Timo Boll FH where you don't move your upper arm; instead you use your legs, your hips and the elbow bending to get that forearm snap, that would put A LOT LESS stress on your shoulder.

That being said, it is very hard to learn to isolate your forearm and keep the upper arm stable. But without reading the whole thread and without doing an in person assessment of the shoulder, that would be the first thing I would say.

The CNT FH is excellent but, even if you are training with that from an early age, it can be hard on the shoulder. Just like pitchers in baseball, they train their whole lives for throwing the ball. But many of them end up having surgery. There are certain things our shoulders do not like to do quite so often.

Why is this different than Tennis? I am not 100% sure it is. But if it is:

1) the tennis racket is much heavier than a table tennis racket. I know that sounds backwards. But, think of a boxer throwing punches. The ones where he lands the punch usually don't bother the shoulder. But the ones where the boxer misses can hurt like hell. As a kid I pitched in baseball. When I was throwing a hardball, it was pretty okay. But we would also play with tennis balls. The tennis ball was way lighter. And when I had pitched 5 or 6 innings with a tennis ball, man my shoulder would hate me for days. With the heavier hardball, after 9 innings, my arm would be sore the next day. But it was like I worked out. Not like someone stabbed me in the shoulder. :) The heavier racket hitting into the heavier ball, is a little safer than the TT racket and ball.

2) In a lifetime of training, my money says a TT player hits way more FH strokes than a tennis player of the same level. :)

So, an all forearm FH with the shoulder joint stable will help protect your shoulder.

And Timo can hit a pretty mean FH that way.
 
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How is your shoulder, Eduardo?
I hope all is well.
Upsidedowncarl and Baal have made some posts about these issues as well.

Maybe it can help too.
Carl might have something to add to this.
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Hi Suga D! Thank you for asking and for the nice content that you reposted here! ;)

Fortunately the pain never came back! I also didn't train with the intensity that I did when the injury appeared, so I calmed down eheh. It's the second time that I pratice twice in a week after my injury, so I'll stay like this for now! I always do a good warm up before playing or praticing to prevent that problems now. And I try to enjoy more and have more fun because I'm always too tense, like going early to tournaments, so I can warm up and pratice some time before playing, and every time I don't arrive at the hours that I plan to be on the tournament, I'll get tense and think I'll don't have time to warm up and I'll loose all my games and I get tense. So enjoying more this would be more healthy also ;)

About the pips I feel nice praticing with them until now, had one tournament and played with them and lost 3 - 1 against a lefthander that I've never played before. He's higher ranked than me(doesn't need to play the group phase), but next time I'll create more diffiiiculties to him :) It seems easier to play against lefthanders!
 
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