Shoulder Problem

smoundzou

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I've been trying to catch up the left side of my body that lost around 60% strength due to atrophy from an old injury that put me out of commision for about 18 months.. 12 or so with pain, the other 6 being affraid to do anything due to not wating the pain to return..

Anyway, here's my problem.. when I first returned to working out.. I used primarily bars over DB's.. I soon realized my left side was so much weaker and my right side was over-compensating and taking most of the preasure.. this soon resulted in a right shoulder pain..

I quickly started doing DB work hoping this would solve thje atrophy issue and it has.. so far.. my left side is around 85-95% of my right side.. pretty good for only 16 weeks or so..

When I bench with a bar.. my right shoulder gets a pain right at the half way down point and the pain continues all the way down and then goes away once I reach the top.. It's not an overbearing pain and I think I can work throught it but I've noticed it  only happens on Flat and Incline BB Bench..

When I use DB's either flat or incline.. no pain?
When I do weighted dips.. no pain?? this really struck me as odd due to most people with shoulder isssues have a difficult time doing regular dips much less weighted..

Any idea's.. Why the pain is only there with the bar.. One other thing is I can duplicate the pain if I stretch my right arm out in front of my fully extended and then slowly bring it in to my body keeping it straight the entire time.. " a simple shoulder stretch" the pain is not sharp.. more of a dull pain??

Any ideas, similar problems or feedback appreciated..
 
smound,

I have issues with my right sholder, so I am going to start some external rotation exercises to build those muscles (rotator cuff seems to be one of the most common shoulder injuries for weight lifters).  As to why you have the pain only during certain exercises, other than going to a sports medicine MD and finding out exactly (which would probably not be a bad idea), I would say that in every movement there are slight variations in angle...and some of those angles are hitting the spot in your shoulder that has developed this injury.  If it were me, I'd keep lifting as usual unless the pain got worse.  My recommendation to you, the smarter thing to do, just do DB's and dips for now since they don't hurt and they are great exercises anyway.  Feel better!
 
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