Lauren. Age:19

Health issues: Shoulder pain due to severe sports injury

In my earlier years I was a keen sportswoman, playing mainly tennis and hockey at a serious level. In 2004 realised that playing tennis was all I wanted to do, so in my summer holidays I played every single day. At the end of July that year, not long after my 13^th birthday, my shoulder started to get pain in it every time I hit the ball, but I was determined to carry on through the pain. My summer holidays ended, and the pain subsided, so when my school asked me to trial for Lancashire hockey I was over the moon.

In the first training session I had with Lancashire under 15s I went to take a shot at goal and my shoulder was in the most horrific pain imaginable to me. I went off the pitch and sat with the first aider, my shoulder had partially dislocated but then gone back into place, in the meantime trapping my muscles in the wrong place. I went straight to the hospital. They put me in a sling and gave me medication. They referred me to a physio which I attended many times.

 After a while, I realised that physiotherapy wasn’t working so I tried a chiropractor but again, I had no luck. The thought of having to give up my place at Lancashire hockey made me really sad, but I knew I had to make myself better before I carried on. With this determination to get better, my doctor decided that I should see a shoulder specialist. After the journey to Manchester to see him, he told me that he couldn’t help me, but referred me to a shoulder physio in Liverpool, so I went twice a week for three months. A year later, I went back to see the shoulder specialist who then told me that I have a problem that can’t be treated

The pain became unbearable and sitting at a desk at school made the pain even worse. I had a constant throbbing pain all down my arm and in my hand due to the nerve damage, and the dull aching pain in my shoulder was horrible. After trying acupuncture, chiropractors, physios and surgeons, I gave up and lost hope. By the time I started sixth form in 2007 I had accepted that I would never be on the tennis court or hockey pitch again. I was living with constant pain, but there are people far worse off than me, so I tried to deal with it

At the beginning of 2009 I came to Ceragem Preston, and after using the thermal chiropractic massage beds for four months I started to notice that the pain was easing and the constant throbbing became less regular. I carried on using the beds and by June 2009 my shoulder was almost free from pain and the range of movement was better that it had been for years.

I am now 19 years old and home from university for the summer, which means I am able to use Ceragem more regularly, so the pain has now completely gone and I am shocked that the solution to my problem was as simple as Ceragem after running around the North West of England for 4 years.  Even though I very rarely have shoulder pain now, I still use Ceragem to try to ensure that it doesn’t come back and I am aiming to be back on the tennis court next month after six years of being injured. I also continue to use Ceragem to help raise my energy levels and help me to get a good night’s sleep, along with keeping my blood circulating properly and my organs healthy.

  I always recommend Ceragem to anybody that mentions pain to me, because I have first hand evidence that these beds are amazing! Ceragem has helped me and it will help you too, these beds can help everybody, even young people - just be patient because healing can take time.

Shoulder pain due to severe sports injury