
04/08/2025
BICEPS TENDON SUBLUXATION (AKA Slipped Biceps Tendon): A Story of Juniper Shenanigans
A week and a half ago in Tahoe, while abruptly changing course to avert collision with another snowboarder, I caught an edge, flipped over and wiped out, somehow causing acute trauma to my shoulder. This caused, I believe, my biceps tendon to slip out of its normal resting place or “groove” on the front of my shoulder. The feeling of excruciating pain was very familiar, as this has happened to me more than once in my 27 years of snowboarding, and each time a chiropractor popped the tendon back into its groove for me, relieving the pain.
I was in a load of pain the rest of that day and into the night. My shoulder was weak af. It seemed like my snowboarding vacation was being brought to a very early end. No!! I had another 9 days of snowboarding I was hoping to do, with no plan to return home to any of my trusty chiropractors. So what to do? Miss days of snowboarding, waste a bunch of money, try to find a local Tahoe chiropractor that would fix this?
Nah. I lay there in bed that night and fiddled around with my shoulder in ways that I recalled had been done to me, basically holding my arm way over my head and strumming the soft tissues in the shoulder with energy work and thoughts of all being set right.
The next day, my shoulder was like new. Gone was the excruciating pain. I had my strength back. I did my next 9 days of snowboarding and came home to Houston, saw my chiropractor today, and asked him about it. He tested my shoulder and confirmed “Yep, your tendon was out and you put it back in. Good job!”
Excerpt from the article below: “There is a safe, gentle, soft tissue procedure which AK (Applied Kinesiology) Chiropractors use to relocate the tendon within its groove.”
https://spinecentral.co.uk/slipped-biceps-tendon-commonly-overlooked-cause-shoulder-pain/
And today I found a YouTube U video on it 🤣: https://youtu.be/a7qCO4aUjMQ?si=d6R72w7M6VeRfFKQ
Hope this helps save someone else’s day - and plans for shenanigans 💪🏂⛷️🎉