I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
I've had tendinitis since college.
The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.
I can understand how people who don't really follow baseball can look at 'dead arm' and think the absolute worst. Basically, a dead arm is when your arm kind of feels a little heavy, kind of feels weak, and basically, it's just muscular fatigue.
Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.
It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.
I've got a terrible knee from too much tennis.
It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.
I think all volleyball players are playing with some type of shoulder injury. You use it so much.
I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.
I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."
I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.
Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.
I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.
I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.
Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.
I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.
Shin splints are something I actually suffered with a lot in my younger years of dancing. I know the pain and it's not fun.
