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Years ago I was doing chinups I am about 5'7 so any chinup bar tends to be quite wide.. so I was doing palms forward wide grip chin ups and it felt like something popped in my shoulder... I was used to what kind of felt like the bicep tendon flicking in the groove within some ranges of motion but this was completely different and very sharp
Hurt like hell for about 2-3 weeks but then got better, with occasional flare-ups..
I couldn't tell exactly where the injury was as it felt like it was in the back in some positions and in the front in others but the pain was deep in side the joint, almost like it was the socket itself.
Laying on my left side and raising my arm out to the side in front of me as well as crossing my right hand across the body to put on the outside of my left shoulder is still painful even years later... at the time I couldn't raise it without sharp pain.
It did get better after a couple weeks though... and rotator cuff exercises and a lot of stretching helped.
about 5 years later I was doing chinups again... same as before.. wide and to the front... and again something popped... this time it was just a dull ache... not nearly as sharp as before... so laying off it and again more stretching and rotator cuff stuff helped... doctors did an x-ray and said nothing was wrong and that I should go get an MRI if I want... (8+ months wait) so I said screw it and let it go... I didn't have thousands of dolars to pay to jump the line and get a MRI within the week like the pro athletes do
About a year ago I was in a motorcycle accident... fairly minor injuries and most of it below the waist... but after being on crutches for 2-3 weeks it flared up again... this time more of a constand dull ache in the joint... it gets worse and subsides but I am pretty much feeling it all the time... but it is liveable so far..
I am doing physio for the accident and they suggested I get an ultra-sound of the shoulder... and possibly a MRI afterward...
The ultrasound shows that my Supraspinatus has some tendonitis/scar tissue and when the area is agrivated there is some minor swelling, causing impingement as well
So hopefull insurance will take care of the quick MRI otherwise I have about 8 months to wait... so hopefully physio can do something in the mean time... I don't particularily like the idea of surgery on it.
The weird thing is I did a lot of the rotator cuff injury tests and either other muscles are taking over and alowing me to do them and not throw up flags for the various rotator cuff injuries or I have an unusually high pain threshold... I guess if I went immediately when the first injury happened it would have been a whole different story..
what would likely be the best stretch and excercise to do... to assist with this... I've heard conflicting opinions as to some common rotator stretches/exercises making it worse, then then other say they are great...
also is there a way I could manually massage the area on my own?... I find it hard to do myself and get around my deltoid and trapesius muscles... I still do have a fair amount of muscle to get through.
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