Good idea!
I would ice it at least twice per day. Then heat before bed.
Have you used a shoulder horn? I have seen this device do some pretty amazing things.
I would be remiss if I did not give my usual advice here: Never barbell bench press again!
Thanks for the advice, Zeb…I’ve done some of the above, including Ibuprofen to help with any inflamation.
Not sure what a shoe horn is…
Also not sure if I’ll listen to your third bit of advice…we’ll see!
Not a shoe horn. A “Shoulder horn.” It’s a device that you put around your neck and then lift light dumbbells 5lbs-10lbs in a vertical fashion. It has helped, to some degree, everyone that I have seen use it.
Do a google search and check it out. It might prolong your Bench pressing for another few years…before the surgery!
lol…thanks again…
I meant shoulder horn, I swear…weird…it’s not like the term “shoe horn” is in my daily vernacular, either…
Dont you hate those freudian slips RSU.
Just the other day, we were visiting the inlaws and I meant to say “Good eggs, Mrs. K” but it came out “You fuhking b!tch why must you ruin my life.”
Oh, we laughed and laughed.
Good post Zeb, I’d like to contribute more but honestly I could write for hours and hours and I just don’t have the time right now. Plus I wouldn’t be getting $ for it 
I will say read: Psychocybernetics, Think and Get Rich, and anything by Jim Rohn if you’re looking to change your life and/or do some self-help.
And also How to Win Friends and Influence People.
(I’m leaving literature and religious works out on purpose)
One should always be reading, BTW.
Hijack
“Do a google search and check it out. It might prolong your Bench pressing for another few years…before the surgery!”
Shouldn’t you just give up benching? WHy prolong doing an exercise that is hurting you, has hurt tons of people before you and will hurt tons after you?
If you don’t have the body structure to do it safely and you’re not a competitive PLifter, drop it.
1 more thing- don’t get married to an exercise just because its popular ,a nd if something has hurt you, why TF keep doing it?!
lol…very good Thumper.
One time when I was a kid…wait, nevermind, that wasn’t me.