I’ve been training to do freestanding handstand pushups lately (last three weeks or so).
The main problem is balance, and I’m working on that by simply doing handstands daily. In the beginning I wasn’t able to stay still for a long time and was walking around on my hands a lot, and not very smoothly either. I guess I was subjecting my shoulder girdle to impact it wasn’t used to before.
Well, after maybe a week or so of this I started feeling a sharp needle-like pain in the area where the upper and lower trap fibers meet, near the top area of the right shoulder blade, when going into a handstand, but only sometimes.
I stopped a day or two and did some deep-tissue massage of the area with a tennis ball. I think it helped, the pain was much less when I started doing handstands again, but it was/is still there.
I am still using the tennis ball to massage the area. Some handstands are totally pain-free, some handstands give me only mild pain and some hurt quite a bit. Some days I don’t feel any pain at all when I go into a handstand, other days it’s there quite often.
Any ideas on what’s wrong? Could it be some kind of a muscle impingement? I’ve never had similar pain before. I’m also not feeling any pain when doing shoulder presses. Then again, I don’t have access to weights that would be the equivalent to my body weight.