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Hello everyone, For the past 7 months I have had a problem with my right shoulder. It was caused due to carrying a heavy bag (20kg) on my right shoulder for a couple of months. I first noticed the problem when I was in the gym one day training chest, I could not contract my right pec properly as my right shoulder was burning and I had to terminate the set. I laid off of training for a couple of months, but when I went back the problem had not gone away. I am also having a hard time contracting my back evenly (get a pain in my rear delt) and when I try to stretch my right latissimus dorsi, it feels like I am going to pull the shoulder out of its socket. My right shoulder has also dropped and is lower than my left. I can also not do dumbbell/barbell pullovers because on the lowering portion of the lift it feels like I will discolate my right shoulder. Does anyone know what has happened and how I can fix this problem? I can not afford to spend $60 a week on physio's etc. I really want to get back into the gym, I am 19 and this is the best time of my life to put on muscle mass as I would like to compete in natural shows when I am older, every day I sit at home it feels like time is slipping away, please help! |
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Trigger points and chronic muscle spasming can't be cured by a stretch, an exercise, a pill, or anything easy. You really do need some massage therapy or modalities - even you do it yourself. You can get a Theracane, you can use Homedics Schiatzu products, you can use ice or heat yourself, but it's a daily, consistent, work through one layer at a time issue.
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Thank you very much for your reply joe. I'll see what I can do to get a theracane. Would it be possible for me to train at all to build muscle? Or maybe some exercises to bring my shoulder back level to the other?
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I'm a big fan of training around injuries; but let me tell you that it backfires at least 50% of the time  . Be careful. |
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i think i have a little bit of what you have goodfellow. I got the best feeling out of it with Ice massages daily and not immobilizing the joint. Dr J reccommended the ice massages. Just make sure form is 100% I think that is the biggest tool i have learned this year. Really focus on form and not get injured. I am doing better with that. The trap thing will come and go though. It will hurt one day and the next not. Just be patient and try to work them both evenly. I feel my right bi and chest bigger than my left, but i just gotta keep at it. |
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what do you mean by 'immobilizing the joint'? I think instead of the theracane i'm going to use a tennis ball and roll on it to massage the area that way, I will do ice massages as well and carry on training, since sitting around doing nothing hasn't really helped! |
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I mean dont just throw it in a sling and hang up your hat.....it will get stiff...I mean stretch it slowly and take it easy for a while. I am not out of the woods yet either but i am 110% better than i was. No pain to speak of right now...it flairs up, but very little. Just know what flares it up and avoid going heavy in that way. Just as good a workout as you can without hurting yourself further. Scale back intensity lucas |
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The ice massages will help, but Lucas had a strained supraspinatus tendon - more of a joint issue. Goodfellow, sounds like you have some strained muscle/trigger points in the actual trap area. Different issue entirely.
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I actually forgot to tell you about my traps joe, but the same things helped it. I am sure it as trap because when i bent over to deadlift themiddle upper back had sharp pains....and btw....avatar? Either way i just nod Joe and say your right :) cause you are
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Ok, at camp, Joe, You're going to assess my traps. They are always in knots. I massage, my husband massages, we biofreeze, we Shiatsu them. I've had ultrasound & Estim. Still knots. |
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Look at ergonomics and posture. Posture first. Contract your glutes a little, arch your low back a little (not hyper-extending), and see how much easier it is to keep your head up and shoulders back. Even put your heels against a wall and stand up straight and see if your head or shoulders are pitched forward. Work at a desk/computer, work with your hands out all day....can be a factor. After that I'd see someone with serious myfascial release training or a very good chiropractor.
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Ok, thanks. I'll do that.
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Huh i sit at a desk all day with my hands out all day asking professors for nice shiny A+s Lucas |
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I went to the gym the other day, bad news. During lat pulldowns I got a 'stretching' pain on the underside of my arm at the armpit (posterior delt region I think?), couldn't feel anything else. I then did some pressing exercises and felt a bad pain in the same sort of area. Walking back to my car it felt like my arms were literally going to fall out of their sockets.
Today my right shoulder (posterior delt) just throbs and is tender to the touch. I am sooo fed up, I can't believe i've had all this trouble just from carrying a heavy ass bag over one shoulder for a couple of months. *My posture is quite bad -
- kyphosis
- lordosis
- forward head posture
- rounded shoulders (in addition, humerus on right arm is externally rotated / humerals on left arm is internally rotated)
- right side of my body extends back further than my left. (from heavy bag)
- right shoulder is lower than left. (from heavy bag)
- right hip is lower than left. (from heavy bag)
I have pictures taken of my upper body to show you what I mean, shall I post them?
And guys I would just like to say thank you, i've posted in many other forums and spent loads of money for advice and so far the responses on here have got me more information than anything.
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GF, what in the heck are you doing to yourself? Sounds like a couple weeks off is in order. |
