Shoulder bursitis and Age a problem?

[PurpleDrank]

Yea, I ended the shot, disc, and jav so now i am now looking gor another sport to try out and always wanted to try boxing.

[AdamGB]

The problem is that like scrap has said- throwing sports, even basketball and especially shot put and javelin because of the repetitive throwing motions and amount of force generation needed for shot put and javelin often cause and usually always make shoulder bursitis worse.

The bursitis is a symptom of something, rather than a problem it's self. repetative throwing etc over work certain muscles of the shoulder and chest which put the shoulder joint's bones into a bad position because of a muscular imbalance between the opposing muscles.

you've likely developed upper cross syndrome or medial rotation of the shoulder, like scrappy said a good osteopath/physio etc would be able to diagnos and put this right.

On one hand having a background in throwing sports is pretty good, because they don't call it 'throwing' a punch for no reason... so you should have a natural aptitude for punching already, but on the other hand- it's another 'throwing' sport and you've likely caused the problem or made it worse from that in the first place.

So if you're looking for a substitute sport, this probably shouldn't be it. If you're set on boxing, you're young and bursitis is fairly simple, so your prognosis is good, so you can box... but you shoulder get your shoulder sorted first.

[PurpleDrank]

Thanks for the info and I should have added bursitis was from being hit in backyard football not throwing. So hoping to get better and start training for boxing in a few months.