Shoulder Injury

Giants95

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I was on a ph cycle about 2 months and I went really heavy in the beginning on shoulder press and everything seemed fine. But the following week I hit shoulders again and when I went to shoulder press I had a sharp pain in my right shoulder. I continued to workout and it got worse after my cycle. ( now I can't bench or shoulder press but I can do all other shoulder exercises) just can't press. This is causing me to take off chest exercises completely
Any advice on what's wrong with my shoulder and what to do?
 
Can you show me exactly where the pain and/or discomfort is?
 
Press into your shoulder where its painful and take a pic?
 
I can't pinpoint exactly. I want to say it's inside the socket that you see in the center of the deltoid, when you lift your arm and flex your biceps. (That small socket). It weird. I can feel a popping feeling when I move my arm up and down in a pressing movement. But not in my left shoulder. It does not hurt and I'm completely mobile. unless I'm pressing weight.
I've layed off all pressing.
I can do all other excersises except presses and flys without it hurting.
 
Reason why I haven't gone to see a doc is because my insurance is crap and I'm in the process of getting new insurance.
 
Giants95 said:
I can't pinpoint exactly. I want to say it's inside the socket that you see in the center of the deltoid, when you lift your arm and flex your biceps. (That small socket). It weird. I can feel a popping feeling when I move my arm up and down in a pressing movement. But not in my left shoulder. It does not hurt and I'm completely mobile. unless I'm pressing weight.
I've layed off all pressing.
I can do all other excersises except presses and flys without it hurting.
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I'm thinking bicep Tendonitis. That's what I have and I used to think it was Shoulder. Is it near the front?

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Giants95 said:
Yeah it's near the front. Did you get diagnosed? What did doc tell you to do?
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Yes, and the doc diagnosed me properly with bicep Tendonitis. But, he gave me the wrong remedy. He told me to rest and it did nothing.

I'm still healing but learning what helps me personally.

I do this whenever I have time, almost every night actually:

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I watched this, it made sense, and I work on biceps:

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I've realized that some of my major causes were/are lack of shoulder mobility on squats, shoulder activation on presses, and scapular work on all.

I try and focus on these:

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The Retractions whenever possible and the shoulder warmup on pressing days.

I widened my bench, moved my squat high bar, and adjust those as they feel better.

Pull-ups every day but low reps. Nothing to completely fatigue me but it Stretches me out and moves my shoulder socket.

Doc advised ibuprofen as well, but topical BioFreeze helps better.

The more I mobilize it and continue to use it the better it feels. I rested for over 3 months and the issue remained stagnant.
 
Massaging works well too. There's a self example in here somewhere, but I find a second party helps better. A lot.

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Giants95 said:
Sweet bro I appreciate your help!
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Keep me posted. Maybe start a log as well. I'm still dealing with mine but it's going away as I work and deal with it; more so than resting.
 
Giants95 said:
How long have you been injured?
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Lower bicep Tendonitis started 3 years ago. Solved it completely after a year- then upper Tendonitis started about April or May this year. I think my keto diet assisted in the injury and It was prompted by low bar Squats which I had been doing for a long time. Doc told me to rest and no deads, Squats, or bench in July. I sat back for months waiting for it to go away. I always felt something despite the rest. I started listening to the Westside Barbell podcasts and Louie Simmons talked about injuries occurring from lack of joint and Tendon movement. So I now try and give them the most stretching and movement as possible, short of direct pain.
 
I'm the last 2 weeks I have made a lot of progress. Band assisted pulllups, the Stretches I linked from youtube, and a widened grip on bench and narrower grip on OHP have helped.
 
I've been thinking about getting the band. I heard a bit about them. I'll definitely get some tomorrow and start up until my insurance comes through.

Dang man that's a long time and can be quite depressing because my chest is going to be lagging so far behind ��.
Do you do any alternate chest exercises?
 
Giants95 said:
I've been thinking about getting the band. I heard a bit about them. I'll definitely get some tomorrow and start up until my insurance comes through.

Dang man that's a long time and can be quite depressing because my chest is going to be lagging so far behind í*½í¸¡.
Do you do any alternate chest exercises?
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It depends on what triggers you. Sometimes DB presses felt fine, sometimes Barbell presses felt fine. Never incline though. One machine felt ok while another didn't. Pointer on ring BB presses really helped to not hurt on chest. The band Stretches are important though. Do them every day, twice if you can.

EliteFTS has a huge sale going on right now.

The pro mini, pro monster, and pro light are the ones I use the most for Tendonitis work.

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Here's the massaging one. It helps a lot if my wife will help dig in there.

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And going back to time: My recovery didn't have to take this long. It took me this long to identify and treat. Hopefully these will help you speed up that time. I'd say it's been 2-3 weeks since I nailed down what helps me and I'm progressing fast.
 
Just did dumbbell shrugs for the first time. Set one hurt like hell but there was a huge relief afterwards. Every set felt better. I think it's stretching the Tendon. I'm going to do these every day as well. I do a 3 second pause at the top with them. Maybe it'll help you too.
 
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Just did dumbbell shrugs for the first time. Set one hurt like hell but there was a huge relief afterwards. Every set felt better. I think it's stretching the Tendon. I'm going to do these every day as well. I do a 3 second pause at the top with them. Maybe it'll help you too.
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I'll try it out and update in here as well on my recovery process.
Please keep us updated too
 
Will do.

There is also some info in here:

Bicep Tendonitis?

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My bicep Tendonitis started with huge pain here:

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But with how I've treated it it's down to here, and only slightly:

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had injury in the shoulder that prevented me from working out. i used bpc157 with great results. In 2 weeks i was in the gym back to regular work outs. i hope this helps.
 
Bicep Tendonitis almost 100% gone due to the Stretches and stuff I posted.

Unfortunately, my supraspinatus tendon, the one tied to rotator cuff injury, is now hurt. I assume the extra stretch and focus on the bicep tendon without doing RC mobility may have caused this.

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I'll start a new thread for that and start identifying how to eliminate that one, too.
 
Giants95 said:
What shoulder excersises are you able to do?
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I can do all of them.

What is uncomfortable is :

Straight arm front raise (I only do these with light bands anyway)

Wide grip Shoulder press

Mid-grip bench

Incline press

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And it's just uncomfortable, not quite painful. The area that is the most sore when not doing anything is along the upper trap/collar bone.
 
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