I have this pain in one of my shoulder areaa that is most noticed when i move my arm in a particular position. When I sleep i have to be careful not to sleep too much on it or it will hurt even more. I dont notice it all the time only when i move my arm to a particular position.

I know how i got this pain but I dont know how to reduce or take it away. Any suggestions?

I got it by arm wrestling about a year and a half ago. I was kinda drunk.... the guy who wrestled me was a body builder and was drunk too.... he just came up to me and asked me "you look pretty built, wanna arm wrestle?" I agreed... i wouldnt have if i wasnt under the influence... the guy was huge man. I did a pretty good job of holding my own but i ineviatable lost ( i wasnt in shape at the time).
So because of that I recieved this pain in my shoulder area.


Now that im lifting its more intense.


So what should I do?

I have this pain in one of my shoulder areaa that is most noticed when i move my arm in a particular position. When I sleep i have to be careful not to sleep too much on it or it will hurt even more. I dont notice it all the time only when i move my arm to a particular position.

Does the pain feel localized in the front of the shoulder, kind of just above the armpit, where the front delt meets the the upper pec?

You may have the beginnings of what I have. Shoulder impingement. I have a severly aggravated right rotator cuff. If I roll over on that side at night, it'll wake me up from the dull, aching pain it causes, generally towards the back of my shoulder socket.

Get to the doctor now. Not tomorrow, not the day after... ASAP. Do not weight-lift with your upper body until after you've consulted with the DR. The time to lick this problem is now - if you push your shoulder, you'll end up where I am. It's been about five months with little to no weight lifting and 99% of my gains have been erased. I'm not just back to square one, I'm somewhere behind that - after meeting with my physical therapist for the first time this past Tuesday morning, I was told that I have moderate to severe "muscle wasting" in my bad shoulder due to favoring it because of the impingement pain.

Trust me, you don't want this frustration. Get it looked at as soon as you can, and do not push it at the gym. Better to lose a week or two than months of unending frustration. Stupid me, I had to learn the hard way. Ask John Stone. He was down for 8+ months. Don't go through what we have... learn from us and get the help you need to correct the problem before it gets worse. Have I said it enough times now? :p

This message brought to you by the Office of Repititive Redundancy. Get looked at.

-R

Yep, Arm Wrestling can certainly injure the rotator cuff muscles.

Like BlueStreak said, rest it and get professional help. If you cannot afford to get it treated, rest it until the pain ceases (or signifcantly reduces) and slowly rehabilitate the shoulder doing rotator cuff muscle exercises and general shoulder flexibility and stability exercises.

Here are some articles on exercises from BB.com

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/dorian1.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/likness22.htm

And when you finish rehabilitation you should slowly get back into weight training. This article offers some advice on exercises to avoid.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/luis4.htm

Seriously though, with this kind of injury that can bother you for years, its best to seek professional help rather than treating it yourself using info from the web (no matter how reliable).

(Though not related to krosspyder's problem, I fit in with the "pain in shoulder area" and thought I'd share.)

I went skiing for the second time in my life last Sunday and I had a blast. Lots of fun and all. Woke up on Monday with pain in my left (dominant side) shoulder. It has persisted, and after reading R's advice, I dragged myself up to the campus health center (luckily, again, I was not diagnosed as pregnant). The doc took a look at it, heard my explanation, and called it "subdeltoid bursitis." Sometimes it gets better by itself, but the doctor prescribed drugs to me anyway (Is this a doctor's favorite thing to do?). So now I'm taking indomethacin for two weeks.

So, Krosspyder, get it looked at, get it fixed. The words above my post are pretty smart.

Jeff.

Krosspyder, I wish you the best in repair and recovery! I appreciate this thread and do not mean to hijack it. Your situation, and the emphatic advice that's been given, makes me wonder: should I, too, get a thorough check-up, x-ray etc. before I begin to lift any weights?

I have in my right shoulder a significant amount of grinding and popping. I use the term, "crepitus," only because I have a daughter who had some medical training, and I thought I heard her use it to describe the "noises in the joint." There is absolutely no pain at this time - just lots of noise. I don't remember any specific or significant injury at any time in my adult life. But, it is my dominant shoulder, and I have played a lot of baseball over the years. Oddly, it didn't hurt at all, even as recently as two summers ago, when I played softball, and did lots of throwing while being in absolutely pathetic overall physical condition.

I have not been a weight-lifter since I was about age 15, when I quit for other, disturbing reasons that maybe I'll talk about in my journal or another thread someday. So anything wrong with my shoulder seems like it would be because of plain old aging. Still, I'd like to be free, if possible, "cleared" to do lifting, starting sometime in the next few months.

What do you guys think? My Dr. is a phone call and a very reasonable co-pay away. I just don't want to waste her or my time - but I don't want to lift with an unstable shoulder, either! Thanks for any and all advice!! :) -Martin

thanks guys... thanks for the support and advice.... and those links for excersizes to help out that shoulder area.


some more questions...


anyone have had to go to a doc for a problem like this? what did they tell you?

since i dont have a doctor and no heatlh insurance im not sure how im going to do this. im a grad student at a university so im wondering if going to the campus doc will be good enough.... since my tution pays for it... or it should. what do you all think?

i just dont want a doc to be taking all my money for just visits and some info that i could of found on my own.

would the excersizes posted above help out? should i stop doing upper body and do those excersizes instead?