**** IT. Shoulder gone again

[Tricky]

A while ago i had a problem with my shoulder, it turned out to be the sub-scap part of the rotator cuff. My g/f's a physio so i luckily had diagnoses on-hand. Her hypothesis was that during benching the ball of the humerous is under great pressure to come forward/upward (i.e. away from the body at 90degrees) when the bar is on the way down. As theres no bone to prevent it from doing this, it is part of the sub-scaps job. It was benching that hurt every time. I took some time out, followed by some lower body only time, then did some rotation re-hab work and it was ok.

I swopped bench for dips but continued the rotation re-prehab anyway. Then yesterday i got curious about how my dip strength would translate to benching ability. 2 sets of bench later and my shoulder is again wrecked.

Its not the sub-scap this time, it feels totally different, and it doesnt hurt to stretch my rotator cuff. It feels like maybe where the pec minor inserts under the anterior delt.

MORE TIME OFF. Not expecting a diagnosis or owt, just ranting and pissed off i suppose. Anyone had a similar prob. ? Did you ever manage to get back under the bench bar sucessfully?

[Robert]

Rest up and be very careful. Listen to your woman.

[Tricky]

Rest up and be very careful.
In process of mate. Gonna give up benching for evermore i think.
Listen to your woman
shes gonna LOVE hearing that! ;)

[blacklab]

You might wanna try dumbell bench. I did it for about 9 months after a RC problem with no worries. BUT only after you've had a good amount of recuperation.

[Narc]

Gutted, i feel for you man.
A few years back when i rode bicycle trials, i ****ed my shoulder up, basically used to twist and felt like it was dislocating every time i extended it with any momentum or force, couldn't even throw a stone, happened once or twice every time i rode and hurt like ****, seems fine sice i stopped riding, but like you i got a little complacent if it had been alright for a while and always ended up screwing it again.

[Tricky]

update - while reaching for my mouse before i heard a big 'clunk' and felt a lot of pain. My neighbours heard a lot of swearing and felt pissed off.

It now feels much better in mid-range, though still really sore at the top of range. My girl (havnt seen her for a couple of days, only phone calls) says it sounds like a partial dislocation. Possibly that i hurt the muscle and it later spasmed and pulled the joint out of sync. Thats bad 'cos apparently once you've done it once it can happen regularly (as in Narc's case by the sound of things).

So basically it looks like i need a HUGE rotator cuff to go with my massive (i wish) delts. :013:

[Narc]

Stumbled across this, couldn't be bothered to read it but it might be of some use

http://elitefts.com/documents/shoulder-rehab.htm

[Tricky]

Stumbled across this, couldn't be bothered to read it but it might be of some use

http://elitefts.com/documents/shoulder-rehab.htm
ta. :)