I have a method for dealing with shoulder clicking and unsmooth movement that I’d like to share. I was wondering if anyone else has tried it.
Shoulder compression - you put your shoulder up against a wall and lean into it, applying pressure. You rotate from side to side so that the joint gets pressure from every angle (front, side, rear).
You can also do this by taking one arm and pressing directly into your opposite shoulder with the palm of your hand. While pressing into it, rotate the shoulder externally and internally.
What this does is it basically forces your humerus back into the shoulder socket along with the various tendons and muscles which run over the shoulder and sometimes get out of place, causing clicking or unsmooth articulation.
Please comment on this one guys, it’s easy to try at home. I have not read about it in any rehab articles, that’s why I’m mentioning it here.
My left shoulder has felt a little ‘loose’ lately. My brother (a DPT) says I most likely have ‘anterior instability’, or a laxness in the joint. It’s supposedly fairly common among long term bodybuilders. He gave me a whole article to read which stressed the ‘at risk’ position, when your arm is basically outward at a 90 degree angle (imagine doing dumbell shoulder presses).
Apparently that puts a lot of strain on the anterior portion (which I thought was good -lol). So now, I’m avoiding high incline work for chest, doing my shoulder presses with the dumbells close together instead of flaring my arms out, and avoiding touching the bar to my chest on any pressing movements (trying to avoid the deep stretch in the shoulder capsule area).
Stu, I’ve been thinking about that very issue over the past couple days.
The whole idea, with shoulder function, is to get the entire shoulder girdle involved with the movement, rather than just the main levers (the arms).
In horizonal pressing, this means using shoulder protraction, like doing scapular pushups.
In horizontal rowing, this means using shoulder retraction coupled with humeral extension.
I train for bodybuilding, and I don’t do any presses at all. I use flyes for chest and lateral raises for deltoids. I think the delts should be trained with light weights only (real light).
A lot of people pull with their arms only and don’t get their torso’s involved in any movement. This is bound to fuck up the wrists, elbows, and shoulders over time.
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
A lot of people pull with their arms only and don’t get their torso’s involved in any movement. This is bound to fuck up the wrists, elbows, and shoulders over time.[/quote]
I’m still a young guy, but I’ve already found this to be true.
