Pinching Rotators? Diagnose me pls!

[DimEatTree]

I get a pinching kind of pain in my left shoulder where my rotators are but only when i do overhead triceps exercises with dumbells. Particularly one arm dumbell tricep extensions and overhead dumbell extensions. This pain doesn't occur when i use my right arm for the extensions either nor do i get pain when i do other exercises even overhead presses.

The pain is so great that i can't do one rep, but when i try with my right arm i can do a full set! But at all other times I feel no pain what so ever (when im not training) and I feel as though my shoulder is fine??

What is my problem? Is it a pinching rotator cuff (from the literature i've read)? How can I fix this so I can keep smacking the weights?

[paul0616]

sounds like pinching rotator to me. The rotator can be inflamed one day, and not the other, for no reason at all. Maybe just the way you slept the night before. When it pinches, you don't want to work through that. Avoid over head, and even push type exercises during such periods.

[DimEatTree]

sounds like pinching rotator to me. The rotator can be inflamed one day, and not the other, for no reason at all. Maybe just the way you slept the night before. When it pinches, you don't want to work through that. Avoid over head, and even push type exercises during such periods.

hmm i thought so, its probably because i've already aggrevated my rotators from doing my chest and tricep exercises.. im just wondering why it happens more readily to my left shoulder than my left... thanks for the input tho cheers.