bench press and shoulder pain

[hizhonor]

I just had surgery to repair a rotator cuff tear. Believe me, this is the extreme answer; but if your condition warrants it, there is no substitute. You should review you x-rays to determine if you have a bone spur at the acromion. If that is the case, arm movement will allow the spur to wear away the muscle until it is completely severed. If the muscle (supraspinatus) is severed the condition may be irreversible--a bad thing; because pushing movements will forever be impaired. Don't perform self treatment too long before getting a look at x-rays.

 

[Wolf]

I just had surgery to repair a rotator cuff tear. Believe me, this is the extreme answer; but if your condition warrants it, there is no substitute. You should review you x-rays to determine if you have a bone spur at the acromion. If that is the case, arm movement will allow the spur to wear away the muscle until it is completely severed. If the muscle (supraspinatus) is severed the condition may be irreversible--a bad thing; because pushing movements will forever be impaired. Don't perform self treatment too long before getting a look at x-rays.

Thanks for the info guys. Hey hizhonor, how bad was the scar from the surgery and are you allowed to move your arm much yet. I am planning on getting it looked at but my insurance doesn't kick in for another month and a half. I can definitly feel something strang going on in there as opposed to the other arm. i can even hear it just barly make a little sound at a certain point when my arm is rotated lateraly. You have me worried about that bonespur thing now lol...

 

[dzl66]

Sorry you're having shoulder pain when benching, but I gotta admit I hear it all the time, and I'm trying to get people to see that flat benching kill your shoulders unless you're using dumbbells. It has to do with your wrists having to conform to the barbell when your elbows drop behind your back during flat barbell benching. During dumbbell benching, and you should ask someone to watch you to confirm this, you naturally bring your arms AWAY from your body as you descend and closer to your body when you ascend. This is the natural motion and function of the pectorals. When you use a barbell for benching, the delts take over from a point about 10 inches above your chest and below.

If you can't stay away from barbells then do inclines, and stay the hell away from declines. You work the same muscles doing weighted dips that you work when doing declines, and dips are a hell of a lot more safer for the shoulder than declines - barbell, dumbell or otherwise.

-HL

I gotta agree with this post 100% dbs give you a great overall pec workout and the motion is not "locked in" to a bar. I could never really feel bench presses in my pecs anyway felt them more in the anterior delts.