Hurt my shoulder (new injury)

[Mister B.]

ahhhh crap... I have posted before that I have a shoulder/brachialis (sp?) injury. Well I hurt something else in there now.

Tuesday night I did some extremely heavy (for me /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif) low-pulley rows. That's the only upper body part that I worked. I felt just fine.

Middle of the night I started getting this pain in my shoulder that I figured was just my usual injury (it sometimes flares up if I lay on that shoulder). By morning it was evident I had hurt something else.

Between the front and middle delt head there is this... cord/tendon/muscle (????) that hurts like HELL. It feels like a cable (not a muscle, I guess) and the pain runs it's length from the corticoid area (where my original injury is) between the shoulder heads all the way to where my biceps starts to rise. It ends on just the outside corner of the biceps.

The pain comes mostly from rotating at the shoulder... hard to explain: if I hold my elbow to my rib cage with my hand at 90 degrees (paralell to the floor) and then rotate my arm left or right from the elbow. There's a cable shoulder exercise like this (egad, that's the one my specialist told me to do ONLY so as not to hurt the original injury).

Anyway, don't know if anybody can help. Just wanted to whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine...

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B

Seriously though... /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif ouch!

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GETTIN' HARD!!

[jimm]

i hurt mine 5 years ago. it was a rotator cuff tear or extreme stretch...i also couldn't lay on one side-hurt like hell. the physical therapist said i would need to stretch the shoulder joints, and that would be painfull, since what i needed to do was re--align the scar tissue in the joint with the injury. stretching hurt, but it helped me recover.one stretch is : lying on your back, stretch both arms overhead, and let them rest at maximum stretch on a bed headboard. another way i do this stretch is grab a bar that's sitting on an incline bench or smith rack, and stretch that way.the inner and outer shoulder rotations on a machine are good--the outer rotation being more important.do high reps on the rotations because you need to get more blood into the tendon areas, since they heal slowly due to restricted blood flow...hope you can recover with some of these exercises after the initial injury pain susides...

[archive_Flash]

I cant help, but I feel your pain /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Heal up quick

Hold a match to my ass cause I'm BLOWIN UP!!

[archive_HULK1550]

i played hockey in college and tore my rotator cuff broke my collar bone and my arm and dislocated my shoulder all at the same time. its taken 4 surgeries to fix it. it sounds to me like you have a rotator cuff problem. make sure you do controlled reps at a good pace, no jerking weights around to show off! and make sure you warm up very good, to losen everything up first.
if you need advice on how to do that or let me know.

[powerlifterjay]

If it runs down your delt into the bicep, its bicep tendon. I am currently going through the same thing. Except mine only hurts when i try to lockout my left arm while flat benching. Doesnt hurt to incline, military, or any other movement.

If it is your rotator cuff it woudl hurt to do a throwing movment. Like a baseball. AC joint it would hurt overhead. Of coursei am no expert but i am a pro bencher and have injured all three in the last year and a half. BUt it could be something else. YOu need rest, ice, and while icing elevate it. Keep anti inflam in ya constantly. Good luck with it.

"My Steel"