Hi all,
I am posting here basically for some advice from those who have been through a similar situation. I see there is plenty of posts regarding this type of injury but I thought I'd just share my experience thus far and maybe I will get some help from you guys and maybe my experience might help someone else out in the same situation along the way.
I was finishing off a shoulder workout about two weeks ago with some dumbell shoulder presses. I had been experiencing a little discomfort in my right shoulder but I was persevering and trained through. Anyways - was 'curling' 90 pounder dbells up to a starting shoulder press position when I felt this quite substantial pain in my right shoulder - best way to describe it was like something seperating in my shoulder. It happened when the db was roughly half way through the seated db curl position. I dropped it immediately and decided to head for home after that. Pain was bad enough to make me reconsider any further training for a few days.
I have now resumed training after 5 days off - can still do most everything but shoulder press (any type), bicep dumbell curls, barbell curls (but ok as long as I don't take the bar beyond about mid chest height at the top of the movement), lateral raises out of the question, can still squat heavy and can support and 'push' the bar up off my shoulders as long as I keep a reasonably wide grip, bench press hurt pretty bad on even light weights but I found I could do dumbell presses pretty much without pain, incline dumbells not so good but I think the pain was being exacerbated by having to again lift the dumbells into that starting position - but once there it was pretty much ok.
The weirdest thing is that driving the car hurts my shoulder like a bitch.
I have just started taking glucosamine and checked out google and for the last three days have been doing a range of rotator cuff exercises with just the weight of my arms and today with no more than 5 pound dumbells (which was almost too much). They feel ok ish but I am aware there is some discomfort however this does seem to dissipate as I pump up. The rotator cuff exercises I am doing - 4 of them and about 30 reps each give me a wicked shoulder pump too even with just the weight of my arms.
Guys - based on what I have said - any sage advice from ones that have been through similar?
I do have access to deca if necessary - but from everything I have read they say that this will not actually heal the injury but mask the symptoms. Any take on this also?
I'm pretty strong in the shoulder department - but my frame is extremely wide and I have what I would call underdeveloped traps which I was hoping to bring up and maybe this might help stabilise the whole shoulder girdle (but right now I suspect that shrugs etc may be out of the question due to right shoulder injury).
Anyways - any help would be greatly appreciated.