[quote]Professor X wrote:
This guy has seen several specialists and even had an MRI done and NOTHING was found. Don’t you think if it were a structural issue that it would have shown up on one of the SEVERAL tests with one of the SEVERAL specialists he has seen?
All signs do not point to an impingement at all. They point to poor form if anything.[/quote]
Playing this on repeat.
An arthrogram is indeed what I had, so if nothing came up I’m guessing there is no labral issues.
Some further information:
My right shoulder is lower than my left (or my left may be higher).
My right shoulder is not as flexible as my left.
My left shoulder is weaker than my right.
My right trap is bigger than my left.
My left lat muscle is bigger than my right.
My left medial delt is twice the size of my right
I desperately want to train, however, whenever I seem to try, it just flares up my problems more. So I stop.
I just don’t know what exercises to do to fix it, and of course i’d need to be doing those exercises for months to actually see a difference. So if I end up doing the wrong things, I just get deeper in shit.
I used to do behind the neck band pull downs, shoulder dislocations, exteral rotations 3x a day, I carried this on for a good month or two, and nothing really changed, if anything I just aggrevated it more.
I also have a lot of trouble trying to get an even contraction in my back when rowing.
Also, how is a 4-5 day split including a chest day unbalanced?
It has essentially the same exercises as a “Horizotal Push/Horizontal pull” + “Verticle push/Vertical pull” program. It’s just listed as muscle groups rather than movements.
I understand why my program 8ish months ago was unbalanced (TBT 3x a week with no direct shoulder/arm work, with an extra chest day), but the split I planned on doing seemed ok to me?
Back (BB row, Lat pulldown, Rear delt flyes, Straight-arm pulldown)
Chest/Biceps (DB bench, pec deck, DB curl, DB preacher curl)
Delt/Tricep (Military press, lat raise, EZ bar tricep ext, Cable pushdown)
Legs (Squat OR deadlift, leg press, lunge, calf raise)
I don’t know why a five way split is the automatic rebound from TBT either. Not that a five way is bad, but in your case it seems reactionary and maybe over specialized at this point.
I would sugest you see a sports injury doctor. It might be a tight chest muscle (or a combination of muscles thats tight) thats causing the pain and pulling one shoulder lower than the other.If it’s a pinch nerve than get an adjustment from the chiropractor.
It’s got better over past couple of days, basically ive:
Taken ibuprofen 3x a day for past couple days
Taken mad fish oil w/ some glucosamine
Stayed relaxed as possible at all times.
Avoided wiggling my shoulders all the time
That being said, I couldn’t resist going to the gym again, and thats kinda tweaked it again…
The pain is a lot more targetted now, its right between my medial/posterior deltoid on the right shoulder.
The overall ‘burning’ sensation is GONE.
The right side of my neck is still kinda tight and cricks a lot too, whenever I get a ‘crick’ it tightens up even more.
You might have a muscle knot where it feels tight. You need to get it massaged out.
Well today I finally got it confirmed what it was, the new doc just took 2 mins looking through my medial history (notes of my symptoms, anthrogram & lax joints) and came to the conclusion that I have Inflammation of the joint capsule (capsulitis).
She told me to:
stretch the shoulder to increase its range of motion (relatively good compared to most people, but poor compared to my other shoulder)
She then went onto say my shoulder hasn’t healed, because I kept using it and putting it back to phase 1 (like constantly picking a scab). She did NOT say how long it would take to mend.
If anyone else has any experience with this, i’d really really appreciate some advice. This is a major road block in my life right now that i’d like to get past.
checked out this: