shoulder status

[wannalift]

ahh, finally an injury related forum. i hope not to spend too much time here in the future
so my shoulder continues its slow recovery. now that i'm consistently doing my rehab exercises (rotations, xyz's) it is feeling stronger and more stable. heard the best way to treat a shoulder is to maximize the blood flow so i put a heating pad on it yesterday for an hour and it feels a lot looser this morning. i think if i can stay consistent with this and my vitamin I (ibuprofin) i might be recovered by the middle of next month. that would be the best valentines gift ever. my true love
~david

[wannalift]

have cut out almost all upperbody exercises for almost 2 weeks. less some arm work and grip work and shoulder rehab. feeling some real progress. i will probably give it another 2 weeks and then try it out lightly. i'm not even worried about how much muscle mass i'll lose during this recovery. now that i've got my hip squatting belt and am doing the supersquats routine i plan to come back and be bigger and stronger by the end of march. of course not doing upper bodywork does have me a little depressed boo hoo.
~david

[Frostfire]

Good job sticking to the recovery even though it is hard. Hope you are 100% soon!

[scenthound]

I'm with you on this. My shoulder problem is going on four months now. It's been about six weeks since I curtailed the bench presses. They seemed to be the major aggravator. The only upper body I'm doing right now involves some lighter dumbell standing presses and rotations.

It's slowly improving but it looks like I'll need a while longer.

Nothing compared to my big runner's knee problem in '99. That took years to heal, but eventually it did. I run all I can take now and no more brace.

Knowing this, I'm sure the shoulder will eventually recover. Until it does, completely, I'm mostly running. Doing lots of pull-downs on the soloflex and dumbell stuff.

[Jonathan]

i have had a persistant shoulder injury for about 14months. that said, it isnt noticable on most days, and rarely does it hurt any more. i think thats its partially due to not working as a support worker with adults with autism and learning disabilities. i had to use physical intervention sometimes, which always aggravated it.
scenthound-i buggered my shoulder innitially doing dumbell bench press and going to deep without the necessary flexibility. now i find that flat and decline never aggravate it and incline does occasionally. im not sure what your injury is specifically-is it rotator cuff injury around the back of the shoulder? if so, try reverse flyes to build up strength there.
once you have some strength, maybe go back to benching a little.

jonathan

[scenthound]

I suspect mine is primarily the bicepital tendons with additional minor rotator cuff aggravation. I was swinging the db's up from the floor to overhead a lot. I felt the acute pain situation occur on top of gradual intermittent soreness flat benching to failure. I seemed to get better and I'd resume the presses until the soreness returned.

I'm doing the flys with lighter db's and getting better. It took a long time to clearly understand that the bench presses were the main culpret.

[wannalift]

so i reaggrivated my shoulder POSING FOR MY BEFORE PICS. is that not the most rediculus story out there. don't think i did anything serious, it just feels like it did after benching. unbelievable.
~david

[Frostfire]

Only you would do something like that . Hope its not too bad and that it feels better soon!

[wannalift]

feels better than yesterday. probably only a glitch.
~david