periodically my shoulders will get these impingements even when i have taken long breaks from working out, I sleep on my side with a pillow under my head, does this cause shoulder problems?
Do you think that you have initiated this shoulder pain by solely sleeping on it or has it arisen from an injury e.g. xhest flies with too heavy weights?
It’s a good point that other things are also likely responsible for causing your impingement, I have found without doubt that careless stretching of back/shoulders/chest (around the shoulder, basically) will definitely irritate the shoulder.
IME lying on my side is like a long, unsupervised rear delt stretch throughout the night. At one oint I made a ‘U’ sort of valley with pillows for my neck, to make it really hard to lie on my side, and now I routinely lie flat on my back. Much better
FUCK. This is totally me OP. A week or so ago I “injured” myself in my sleep, fucked up my right shoulder - feels like probably rear delt. Anyway I rested a few days and I thought it went but it’s just bugging me all the time now, a niggling stiff achey feeling. I sleep the same way and think it must be the cause.
Haven’t been able to overhead press heavy for ages. 
[quote]Jab1 wrote:
FUCK. This is totally me OP. A week or so ago I “injured” myself in my sleep, fucked up my right shoulder - feels like probably rear delt. Anyway I rested a few days and I thought it went but it’s just bugging me all the time now, a niggling stiff achey feeling. I sleep the same way and think it must be the cause.
Haven’t been able to overhead press heavy for ages. [/quote]
Well jab, you’ve noticed it yourself, and it does make sense that the prolonged stretching of an area, done in a sleepstate, for 8 hours or so, is going to pull stuff out of alignment and cause a problem. And who the fuck wants to get injured while sleeping?
This is a big cause of ‘minor’ activities leading to shoulder pain.
Another big one is thoracic breathing. You must breathe with your diaphragm, not your chest. Otherwise you perform countless small upper trap ‘shrugs’ each time you breathe (ie all day) and upper trap dominace vs lower trap has been proven in the research to cause/correlate with shoulder impingments. Check out Mike Reinold for more information
Thats very true above.
Injuring yourself whilst sleeping is not good especially when it will prevent u from training. Rest is always a good option with shoulder rehab routines - see a physio and he / she will give you very boring but very effective exercises to do and this will strengthen your whole joint around the shoulder.
Unfortunately we sometimes think of what we look like on the outside but just a if u build a house with no foundations it will eventualy crumble!!! CORE!!
I’ve been teaching myself to sleep on my back and it seems to be helping along with a few extra days out of the gym. My spine also feels better.
But I can’t fucking weight to lift again!
I’ve been teaching myself to sleep on my back and it seems to be helping along with a few extra days out of the gym. My spine also feels better.
But I can’t fucking weight to lift again!
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But I can’t fucking weight to lift again![/quote]
lol, what a clever, unintended typo.
Keens, STOP BUMPING 5 YEAR OLD THREADS THAT HAD NO RESPONSES. You are an ass.
lol!!! to be honest i never even looked at how old they are!! Im new to this site and am still navigating around it slowly! But thanks for your expert advice you are obviously a PRO!! Well the bird on your picture looks like one or is that you?!! Sex change?!! Roid rage there son?