Pain in shoulder...what is it?

[davidmtml]

I've got a pain in my left shoulder that has been sticking around for about 10 days. I noticed it first after chest/bicep day last week. I didn't notice anything during the workout, but immediately after the workout I noticed by should hurt when I lifted my left arm.

If I lift my arm straight out to the side as if doing a lateral raise, with my palm to the ground, I get no pain. However, if I rotate my arm, so my thumb is pointing down when I raise my arm, I get pain on the front/inside of the shoulder. If arm straight down is 0 degrees, and arm straight out to the side is 90 degrees, I start getting pain around 70 degrees until just past parallel with the ground at about 100 degrees. After that I can raise my arm all the way straight up with no pain.

Anyone know what this could be and if it's anything to worry about?

In the last week I've only done one workout and it was real lightweight with no dips/bench/any other shoulder aggravating exercise.

[Juicy Sauce]

rotator cuff injury is all to common. usually happens when you dont warm it up before a chest exercise. going to have to hold off on using your arm as much as possible till it heals. that could be a long time depending on how bad it is. if you try to use it (workout) before it heals then you will probably make it worse. happened to me 15 years ago when i started working out. i did rest it and it got better. helps to see a sports therapist if you have the money.

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[davidmtml]

rotator cuff injury is all to common. usually happens when you dont warm it up before a chest exercise. going to have to hold off on using your arm as much as possible till it heals. that could be a long time depending on how bad it is. if you try to use it (workout) before it heals then you will probably make it worse. happened to me 15 years ago when i started working out. i did rest it and it got better. helps to see a sports therapist if you have the money.

rest

Thanks for the info. I do have insurance so I could go see a doctor if I need to.

How long does the recovery typically take? The pain isn't severe, so I would think the injury isn't that bad??

Is it okay if I still go workout and do things that don't aggravate the shoulder??

[Juicy Sauce]

Thanks for the info. I do have insurance so I could go see a doctor if I need to.

How long does the recovery typically take? The pain isn't severe, so I would think the injury isn't that bad??

Is it okay if I still go workout and do things that don't aggravate the shoulder??

by all means go work out your legs. do abs and stuff like that. wait a full week after the pain stops. for me it took 5 weeks total to fully heal.

when starting back up keep it light for 2 weeks. do low weight and work on getting reps up before adding more weight.

see how it goes bro

[davidmtml]

by all means go work out your legs. do abs and stuff like that. wait a full week after the pain stops. for me it took 5 weeks total to fully heal.

when starting back up keep it light for 2 weeks. do low weight and work on getting reps up before adding more weight.

see how it goes bro

Thanks man,

Should I be doing RC work while healing....internal and external rotations, etc, as long as it doesn't hurt when I do them?? Should I be doing RC/Shoulder stretches, or would doing these just prolong the problem?

[MHannibal]

I've had a shoulder impingement develope while training mainly on chest day. After resting it for about 3 weeks and doing stretching/strengthening exercises along with icing it and taking ibuprofen the swelling went right down and now it's just taking a long time to completely go. I have done a little bit of legs and abs but I don't do a lot in fear of irritating it. On about my 6th week now and it's very nearly recovered, still there tho.

I think it's taken a bit longer because originally when feeling it during bench I didn't think much of it as the pain was minimal and I just pushed through it for 3/4 weeks until the pain would stop me, I knew nothing of shoulder impingements before having the injury so didn't expect to pick up an injury without really doing anything substantial.

It's a shame because I only started working out 9/10 months ago and I was looking forward to going to the gym throughout the summer, now I'm just hoping it's healed within 3 weeks when I'm back at uni, being off the gym for nearly 2 months is making me mad.

[PieWheatley]

I've got a pain in my left shoulder that has been sticking around for about 10 days. I noticed it first after chest/bicep day last week. I didn't notice anything during the workout, but immediately after the workout I noticed by should hurt when I lifted my left arm.

If I lift my arm straight out to the side as if doing a lateral raise, with my palm to the ground, I get no pain. However, if I rotate my arm, so my thumb is pointing down when I raise my arm, I get pain on the front/inside of the shoulder. If arm straight down is 0 degrees, and arm straight out to the side is 90 degrees, I start getting pain around 70 degrees until just past parallel with the ground at about 100 degrees. After that I can raise my arm all the way straight up with no pain.

Anyone know what this could be and if it's anything to worry about?

In the last week I've only done one workout and it was real lightweight with no dips/bench/any other shoulder aggravating exercise.

absolute classic signs of supraspinatus/rotator cuff impingement. You need to give it some time off and strengthen your internal and external rotators with your arm at 0 degrees abduction. You also need to work on your scapula stabilisers (look up some exercises).

[Smoko]

absolute classic signs of supraspinatus/rotator cuff impingement. You need to give it some time off and strengthen your internal and external rotators with your arm at 0 degrees abduction. You also need to work on your scapula stabilisers (look up some exercises).

to add to this being completely correct -

Most impingements are due to an imbalance of muscle. Your mid traps are probably weak as hell and you probably have terrible posture.

Trust me i've had RC and labrum surgery due to baseball and i've done years of PT

[PieWheatley]

to add to this being completely correct -

Most impingements are due to an imbalance of muscle. Your mid traps are probably weak as hell and you probably have terrible posture.

Trust me i've had RC and labrum surgery due to baseball and i've done years of PT

Yes. Probably weak mid-traps and ovveractive pecs giving you a rounded shoulders look and poke chin as well. (all assumptions here).

[davidmtml]

absolute classic signs of supraspinatus/rotator cuff impingement. You need to give it some time off and strengthen your internal and external rotators with your arm at 0 degrees abduction. You also need to work on your scapula stabilisers (look up some exercises).

Thanks.

Once it's feeling better I will work more on my RC exercises.

to add to this being completely correct -

Most impingements are due to an imbalance of muscle. Your mid traps are probably weak as hell and you probably have terrible posture.

Trust me i've had RC and labrum surgery due to baseball and i've done years of PT

How exactly do you hit the middle traps?? I do shrugs and deadlifts which both make my traps pretty sore...not sure about the middle traps though.

I think overall my posture is pretty good. It definitely used to be worse, but i work my back and posterior delts just as much as my chest and shoulders.