I seem to have hurt my shoulder? What now? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by fastandcurious@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world

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I was doing incline smith press and seem to have hurt my front delt in the middle of set, It wasn’t sharp or sudden but I just kinda noticed it, and i made a chump move and decided to finish the set, instead of racking it immediately, i skipped overhead press and lateral raises, I did some cable flies which didn’t seem to have any affect

Now the pain isn’t sharp, I have full range of motion, and the pain is only there when I place some weight on shoulders, so ig it isn’t really serious but should I still continue my upper body workouts and skip presses? Or should I take a week off and only do lower body?

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[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you! This actually happened some time ago and I thought it was almost fully recovered, so I went back to full weights and it hurts again, albeit quite mildly. It was nearly painless so I did my pull-up sets and, minutes later, noticed it hurting passively again. Foolishness. Worse, both times I couldn’t tell until after my set for some reason so now I’m extremely wary.

I think I’ll follow your advice and do light weights while I’m there, a bit of soreness is better than lengthening this injury again. Pretty upset with myself for managing to injure myself twice. Glad you’re doing better though!

[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Damn, exactly the same, I felt pretty good and decided heavy flies would be great, felt burning only after the set and not the good kind (this was about a week after the injury), I am actually curious now as to what sort of injury this is

[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Hm shit, now I am too. I’ve never injured myself before so I can’t tell if this is normal. I’d love if it was symptomatic of a very light injury that will heal perfectly though

[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Not meaning to scare you, but stay a bit careful, even though it might not be bad, I don’t know what would have happened if i tweaked it the third time, since you have already tweaked it twice, stay vigilant, though I am pretty sure its just a tiny pull that resurfaced when I didn’t give it enough time to recover, but still

[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah I’m avoiding everything in that region for now, then doing light weights later. I didn’t stop the first time, just did lighter and it recovered quite well, so hopefully this more careful approach works.

I find myself decently worried about it because, aside from not having injured myself before, re-injuring is so far out of my zone that it’s worth some concern. I’ll update you when it’s fully resolved though

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